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Prestigious Award for Asia Sentinel Editor

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Dec 07, 2019
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Asia Sentinel co-founder and consulting editor Philip Bowring has won the RM5,000 Penang Book Prize for his Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia's Great Archipelago, published by I.B. Tauris. The prize is awarded annually by city magazine Penang Monthly.

Thirty-two books were submitted for the book prize this year. Eight made the shortlist and th…

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