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South Korea’s ‘selection and election drop’ campaigns: success and challenges

  • Dr Adam Zulawnik & Min Sunyoung ,

How a conglomerate NGO runs influential voter information campaigns on political candidates.

Can parliamentary monitoring organisations help reverse democratic decline in Taiwan and Asia more broadly?

  • Professor Herlin Chien and James Kan,

Elections are no guarantee of democracy, but parliamentary monitoring organisations (PMOs) in Asia and elsewhere may be game-changers.

INTERVIEW: How parliamentary monitoring organisations are helping consolidate emerging democracies

  • Professor Herlin Chien,

Parliamentary transparency is a key element of well-functioning democracies. But how healthy is parliamentary transparency in Asia?

INTERVIEW: Shipping in maritime Asia is vulnerable to geopolitical tension

  • Jennifer Parker,

Maritime Asia is a major international trade route, but the South China Sea is hotly disputed. What are the possible impacts on shipping of geo-political tensions?

Migrant fishers from Southeast Asia are increasingly subject to forced labour and human trafficking

  • A/Prof Sallie Yea,

One of the most pressing problems in terms of fishing supply chains is modern slavery of migrant fishing crew.

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