Media
Revisiting country risk for Myanmar
**Will it be boom or bust for companies investing in a newly democratic Myanmar? ** After Myanmar’s 2015 elections, the international credit rating agency, Moody’s, initially issued a very positive...
Myanmar’s 2016 batch of babies
In 2016, around a million babies will be born in Myanmar. Too often we forget the prospects and possibilities of these new lives, instead focusing almost all our attention on those who have already...
Keeping friends close, Thailand closer
It says something profound about the region that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s first international trips as state counsellor and foreign minister have required photo ops with Southeast Asian dictators....
Mahathir and Malaysia’s money politics
In a country where cash is king, soon nothing will happen without bribery, alleges former PM. Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad looked on Thursday like a man with important calculations to make...
Time to position Australia as a digital player in a world online
Australia exists in a world well and truly on its way to digital saturation. While we are likely decades away from the terrifying concept of “peak digital”, a complete renovation of how the public,...
Secession in a democratic system?
Eventually, the shockwaves from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union will ripple into Myanmar affairs. One way or another, we all need to digest the lessons of last week’s historic referendum...
How ISIS Weaponized the Media After Orlando
Before Omar Mateen walked into Pulse nightclub and shot 49 of its patrons and staff to death, he was a nobody. In the hours that followed, though, he was catapulted to global infamy. When rumors of...
ANU ranked number one in Australia for politics and international studies
The latest world subject rankings have strengthened the ANU position as among the best universities of the world and the top university in Australia. These rankings include...
Eye witness to early reform in Myanmar
Department of Political & Social Change fellow, Dr Trevor Wilson has released a new book – Eye witness to early reform in Myanmar.Published by ANU Press, the book provides the first ‘on the...
Jakarta attacks in terroristic terms was not a particular successful operation: expert
The methodology is somewhat different from previous terrorist attacks, it was also somewhat amateurish it appears to me because even many people would have seen the footage of the bomb being...