Sitemap - 2018 - Asia Sentinel
Philippine Rights Commission’s Landmark Climate Change Inquiry
Threats, Violence, Imprisonments Rise for Journalists
Women in Politics in Indonesia
Huawei Row Shows Geopolitics’ Effect on Near-Term Asian Economic Outlook
Why Can’t Korea Solve its Fertility Problem?
Once Again, a Stunning Filipina Miss Universe – or Half Filipina
Lacking ‘3Ms’, Prabowo’s Presidential Campaign Turns to VP’s Billions
Bumpy Road To Thailand’s General Election
Book Review: An Elephant on Your Nose
Book Review: The Conflicted Superpower
Now we know: Air Pollution Makes You Stupid
Draconian Viet Cybersecurity Law Due Jan. 1
Curbing Asia’s Corrupt Governments
Tiny Brunei Plays Off US, China
India’s State Elections Change the Political Landscape
Formidable Challenges Remain to Preventing AIDS Globally
US, Canadian Businessmen: Careful in China for Now
Why Did Huawei Exec Meng Have 3 HK Passports?
Recovery for Indian Contemporary Art
Taiwan’s Voters Pull Plug on Energy Sources
India, China Vie for Regional Influence
Singapore Steps Up Drumbeat of Charges Against Critics
Christian Missionaries and Their Mistaken Message from God
Dark Outlook for Poland Climate Talks
Anti-Chinese Sentiment Grows In Philippines
India Election to Test Modi’s Vote-Winning Power
China’s CEFC Crash has Growing Implications for China Leadership
Troubled Japanese Firm to Abandon Indonesian Banking Unit
Chinese Eyeing Antarctic Food Sources
Don’t Count Out Duterte’s ‘Death Squads’ to Go After Reds
Economy Flashing Warning Lights
China’s Politics, Production, People Meld Together
Has Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement Crested?
China’s Eyes on Papua New Guinea
Japan Toys Gingerly with Allowing in More Gaijin Workers
Philippines Abandons National Language at University
Moscow Returns to The Great Game
Singaporean Authorities Close Prominent Independent News Website
Hong Kong Law: No Longer an Umbrella for Justice
The Mystery of US Defense Spending
Thailand’s Forthcoming Election: Real or Mirage?
Book Review: The Sustainable State: The Future of Government, Economy and Society
Book Review: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Can Imelda Erase History Again?
IMF Backs Central Bank Digital Currencies
Fighting Money-Laundering for God
Alarm Grows Over World’s Plastic Refuse
India’s Ease of Doing Business Improves, but Economy Still a Worry
Britain Finally Recognizes India’s WWI Contribution
Concerns Grow over Philippines’ Duterte’s Rights Crackdowns
Taiwan Angers China With English-Teaching Plans
Bangladesh Polls Loom Amid Repressive Atmosphere
New Vaginal Ring Holds Promise to Reduce HIV Risk
The Environment in China: Inside the Middle Kingdom
Thai Diplomacy under a Dictatorship
Welcome to Malaysia’s Brave New World
Tough-Talking Minister Drives Indonesian Fishery Recovery
2018 in Environmental Review for Southeast Asia
Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia: Debunking Popular Myths
In Bid to Rewrite History, Modi Unveils World’s Tallest Statue
Hong Kong Connects to the Mainland
‘End Times’ Belief Spurred Indonesian Suicide Attacks
Beijing’s Squeeze on HK Endangers International Status
Circus Time in the Filipino Legislature
Singapore: Unexpected Wildlife Haven
Trump’s Open Season on Journalists
Why Democracy Has Failed in Thailand
US Outmaneuvered on Asia Trade – so far
Taiwan Set for Referendum Overkill
New Bribery Charges for Indonesia’s Lippo Conglomerate
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Sum of Messy Parts
India’s BJP Government Says No to #Me Too
Hong Kong On the Totalitarian Grease Pole
India Resists US to Preserve Strategic Autonomy
Wild Tigers in Asia: An Update
Trump, China, and the Future of the Global Trading System
The Debt Trap’s Jaws Close on Pakistan
Tokyo Tuna Market’s Closure Marks End of Era
Why Scientists Say 2040 is Doomsday
Indonesia’s Prabowo Campaign Slowed by Hoax
Thailand’s 2019 Elections May Not Be as Fixed as the Junta Hopes
Book Review: The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Growing Disaster of Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy
Nonperforming Loans, Conflicts Slow March of India’s Petticoat Banking Brigade
China Must Solve Urban-Rural Divide to Solve Income Inequality
Japan’s New Foray into Immigration Policy
Japan’s Small is Beautiful Spacecraft Finds a 1 km Asteroid
Bhutan’s Election Swings on India-China Relations
An Inundated Japanese City Looks to Rugby for Renewal
Philippines’ Duterte Claims Another Opponent’s Scalp
Sino-India Rivalry Heats Up in Mauritius
Thailand: Southeast Asia’s Last Hope for Wildlife?
Australian architect Kerry Hill dead at 75
America First or America Isolated
Anwar, Malaysia’s Impatient Premier in Waiting
India’s Rafale Fighter Scandal Builds: Cherchez la Femme
Apology to President Yudhoyono and the Democrat Party of Indonesia
Hong Kong Billed as Best City -- For Top 1 Percent
US, India sidle Gingerly Towards Each Other
Can Buddhism’s Middle Way Save Journalism?
China Wolfs Down Southeast Asia’s Wildlife
Recycling “Asian Wisdom” to Hong Kong’s Bosses
Trolls for Sale in the World’s Social Media Capital
India’s Rahul Gandhi: Passion, Pep, Not Enough Prep
Hip Replacement Uproar Only the Latest J&J Dispute
China’s Blackwater-Style Private Armies
Kim Runs Rings Around the Americans Again
US Pharma Giant J&J Faces Heat in India
In Malaysia, China Risks a Neocolonialist Tint
Can China Save Itself from Crony Capitalism?
Indonesia’s Election By-product: Trash
Cambodia: Last Hope for Indochina, or on its Last Breath?
Rahul Gandhi Develops Election Strategy in London
Bangladesh Catch-22: What Did They do With Shahidul Alam?
Shaken Indonesia Sets Out to Rehabilitate Lombok
‘Privatizing’ Afghanistan Into Disaster
Afghanistan’s Stunted Peace Process
Food Safety and Political Legitimacy in China
Malaysia’s Sunway City: Sustainability Standout
Laos: Asia’s ‘Battery’ Powers its Own Extinction Crisis
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP‘s Moderate Face Dies
US Social Critic Noam Chomsky Speaks on Thailand’s Political Situation
Letter from Hong Kong: Crypto Funds Whet Investor Appetite
Youth Bulge a Factor in Indonesia 2019 Polls?
Everything Rosy for Japan’s Shinzo Abe
Bangladesh Photog’s Arrest Ignites International Outcry
Creeping Islamism Plays Role in Indonesia’s VP Picks
Post-Election, a Traumatized Malaysian Press Feels its Way
Okinawa Governor’s Shock Death Complicates Fight Over Marine Base
Book Review: Laoshi’s Legacy: Emergence from Shadow
Java Gets a Transformative New Road
Where the Wild Things Were: Vietnam
Indonesia Presidential Nomination Thrown Into Chaos
Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club Under Threat
Mahathir and the New National Car
China Seeks to Woo India From US Containment
South Korea’s Manufacturing: in a Funk
Jho Low’s Super Yacht Back in Malaysia
Is Donald Trump More Rational Than We Think?
China ‘Invites’ US into Indo-Pacific Infrastructure
China Finds a Use for Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port
Thailand’s Junta Invents a New Coup D'état
New Malaysia Government Drops Sedition Charges Against Cartoonist, Others
Indonesia’s Hazardous Water Transport
Duterte Resuscitates Disgraced Philippine Ex-president Arroyo
What will Imran Khan’s Pakistan look like?
Global AIDS Program Threatened by Trump Fund Cuts
India’s Modi Caught in Rafale Fighter Price Mess
Viet Activist Fights to Save Huge Cave System
Indonesia Seeks to Democratize its Schools
Indonesia’s Jokowi Still Looks Good for 2019, Polls Say
Hong Kong’s Young Leaders ‘Map DNA’, Miss Governance
Arm-Twist Democracy in Pakistan
Japan: Reluctant Asian Counterweight to China
Nepal Brings its Dalits into its Forest Preservation Plan
Rahul Gandhi’s Most Effective Speech
Taiwan, aka. “Pangolin Island”
Indonesian Anti-Terror Squad Arrests Hundreds
Beijing Says No to Hong Kong Independent Party
Making Sense of Kim Jong-un’s Choices
Thailand’s Kra Canal: Economic and Geopolitical Implications
Trump’s China Trade Negotiator Hit with New Ethics Questions
Firebrand Indian Imam Becomes a Malaysian Flashpoint
Rivers in Peril: Restoring the Lifeblood of Cities
Beijing Cultivates Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
The Fall From Grace of Aung San Suu Kyi
Indonesian Paper Giant Allegedly Disguising Ownership in Other Companies
The Global Hunt for Malaysia’s Stolen Billions
Asian-American Stereotypes Stunt US Success Rates
The Philippines Sets Out to Commit Political Suicide Again
Malaysia: Time to Pay the Chinese Piper?
US Arm-Twists India Over Iran Sanctions
China’s Belt-Road Initiative: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Japan’s Incredible Shrinking Royalty
Indonesia’s Lippo Group Sees Off Creditors Amid Bribery Allegations
India’s Supreme Court Backs AAP’s Right to Govern in Delhi
Projected Pension Cuts Outrage Taiwan’s Military
End of The Line for Malaysia’s Najib
Gay and Betrayed in Catholic-Majority Philippines
'Unseen Thailand' Slogan: Unintended Meaning
South Korea’s Conservatives in Eclipse
Indonesia’s Ruling Party May Face Trouble in 2019 Elections
Health Care in Asia Outpaces Inflation
The Post-Marawi Decline of Abu Sayyaf
Duterte’s Stance Uncertain Over Foreign Environment Funding
Developing Countries Face Environmental Funding Cuts
Crackdown on Filipino Vagrants Echoes Ugly Drug War
Bribery Issues Overshadow Indonesia Polls
Shock and Awe Won’t Work in a Trade War
Indonesian Police Clear Controversial Cleric in Sex Case
Media and Politics in Southeast Asia
Indonesia’s Cyber-Vigilantes on the March
US Trade Threat Spreads to India
Why did Viet Police Forcibly Grab US Student?
New Surveys Show Ripoffs for Hong Kong’s domestic helpers
Illusion of Security From Singapore
Japan’s New Uncertainty Post-Sentosa
The Chinese Python Reaches for Hong Kong
Malaysia Starts to Count the Cost of Corruption
India Eyes Papua Coal Reserves
Saffronart Online Art Auction Beats Christie’s
A Balinese Teen Learns to Dance
Indonesian Giant Lippo May Face Debt Crisis
Viet Regime Backs Away From Fight it Didn’t Need
Former President Attacks Modi’s Nationalism
Hope for a Blacklisted Cambodian Park?
Indonesian Campus Arrests Underscore Student Radicalism
Japan Riveted by Scandal in American-Style Football
Manila’s Troubling Subservience
Is Thai Strongman Prayuth’s Power Slipping?
Could Poland Sabotage Climate Talks?
US Mounts Major Global Anti-Money-Laundering Campaign
India’s Modi Off to Indonesia to Counter China
Eradicating Poverty in Indonesia
Symbol of Defiance in Thailand
Modi’s India at 4: Troubling Hindu Nationalism, Varying Success
Modi Credibility Hit by BJP’s Karnataka Bribe Offers
Malaysia Gets Change, But Can it Handle It?
Thai Strongman Prayuth Plays Coy on Electoral Campaign
Indonesia Tries to Clean up Elections
Malaysia’s Najib: Long Political Career Ending in Disgrace?
India’s Karnataka Assembly Polls Generate Political Intrigue
China’s South China Sea Grab Now Complete, Report Says
A Critic Looks at Malaysia’s New Press Freedom
Walmart-Flipkart Deal a Sign of a New India
Crypto Investment Bank Debuts in Hong Kong
Rebuilding Malaysia: Titanic job
Philippine Supreme Court Ousts Chief Justice Duterte Called an ‘Enemy’
Facebook is Hurting Democracy in Myanmar
The Doctor is back. Can Malaysia be cured?
Stunning Victory for Democracy in Malaysia
The Coming Anti-China Indo-Pacific alliance
US Protectionism Plays out in Bonn Climate Talks
Trouble on Sumatra’s East Coast
Thailand Junta’s Constitutional Masterpiece
Duterte Takes on the Filipino Press
Malaysia Faces a Tense Election
Like AIIB, the Asian Development Bank Struggles to Find Quality Borrowers
Indonesia’s Social Forestry Program
Myanmar’s Repression Coalition Fractures
Vietnam Tightens the Screws on the Internet
Philippines’ Duterte Knuckles Under to Kuwait
Xi and Modi: After Wuhan, What?
Call for Big Oil to Step Out of Bonn Climate Talks
Indonesia’s Unequal Higher Education
Now You See it, Now You Don’t – Country Fund Disappears
Will the Paris Climate Agreement Work?
Liberal Education for Sale in Singapore
China’s Xi, India’s Modi Start Talking Again
The Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Thai Middle Class
Vietnam’s Trong Cleans Out the Party
Guides to Asian Stock Valuations Now a Puzzle
Malaysia’s UMNO Faces Election Ouster, Sort of
Kim Wants Peace Treaty, not Denuclearization
I’m the King of the Commonwealth...!
US Authorities Write End of Huge Crime Ring
Indonesia’s Homegrown Militants Re-emerge
Graftbusters Said to Probe Bank J Trust Fraud
US Prosecutors to Renew Battle to Seize Huge 1MDB Yacht
Re-energizing the Commonwealth
Modi hits a winning streak in London
Bitter Pill: Western Pharma’s Stunning Profits
Japanese Rookie Electrifies American Baseball
Malaysia’s ‘Fake News’ Crackdown Begins
Chinese Students Increasingly Find US a Hostile Place to Study
India’s Modi in Human Rights Squabble as Commonwealth Summit Nears
Adultery, the World Says, is Wrong
Child Marriage: Southeast Asia’s Misery
Philippine President’s Clash With Women in Power
Russia Funded Syria’s Destroyed Chemical Weapons Complex
The Endangered Last ‘Blank Spot’ on Indochina’s Map
Developing Asia Exporting Too Much Capital
India Seeks Expanded Commonwealth Role
Rogue Bank Helped Fleeing Kazakh Fugitives Launder Millions
Are South Korea’s FDI Outflows Becoming Alarming
Indonesia’s Inadequate Protections for Migrant Workers
Viet Activists Accuse Facebook of Caving to Authorities
Belt-and-Road: The Chinese Albatross Around Pakistan’s Neck
US Says Yes to Taiwan Submarine Program
India Wary of US Embrace on “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” Policy
‘Political Islam’ Threatens Indonesia’s Jokowi
Trump, US May Have Upper Hand in China Trade War
Malaysia’s Najib Calls 14th General Election
Mahathir: Malaysia's Prophet of Doom or Second Messiah?
Najib Razak: A Kleptocrat Skilled at the Game
Mekong River’s Fate Up for Grabs in Cambodia
Beijing Blows Hot Against Hong Kong Scholar
Malaysia Defies International Criticism With ‘Fake News’ Bill
‘World’s Cutest Fish’ Headed for Extinction
Indonesia’s Growing Water Safety Crisis
Can America Bounce Back in Asia?
Mumbai Art Sale Beats Christie’s
Book Review: Is This The China That Can’t?
India and China Jostle For Himalayan Influence
Reintroducing the Clouded Leopard to Taiwan
Malaysia’s Liar in Chief Proposes a ‘Fake News’ Bill
China Rearranges Its Bureaucracy to Aid Regional Hegemony
Malaysia Tries to Redistrict the Opposition to Oblivion
Reform Organizations Protest Malaysia ‘Fake News’ Bill
India’s Blighted Defense Forces
Asia’s Stake in a US Trade War
Indonesia Tries Rural Development
Plastics Manufacturers Told: Clean Up Your Mess
Southeast Asia’s Trade War over Palm Oil
Singapore Looks To Tighten Screws on ‘Fake News’
Fighting Piracy on the ASEAN Seas
Indonesia’s Growing Narcotics Problem
Putting Jokowi’s Maritime Policy Into Practice
Scandal Over Japanese School Re-snares Abe
Is Trump Being Played in Kim’s Survival Game?
The Quad: New face of China Containment
US President Could Bumble Way to Korean Rebalancing
Sonia Gandhi Launches Detailed Attack on Modi Government
India’s Government Protects its Trade
Kazakhs Sue a Kleptocrat, Trump Friend
Duterte’s Crusade Against Chief Justice an Ominous Sign
The Future of Wildlife in Southeast Asia?
Seoul Looks at a New China Under Xi
The Global Banking Industry: No Future Without Blockchain
As US College Enrollments Dip, Schools Look Overseas
BJP Expands in Northeast India
An Indonesian District Isolated From Development
Is Cambodia’s Sleepy Kampot in for a Rude Chinese Awakening?
Malaysia Readies for a Depressing Election
How the TPP Rose from the Dead
Will Asia’s Rise Mean the Wreckage of Planet Earth?
Canada’s Trudeau Stumbles in India
Climate Change: Developing Asia Drives Industrial Heat Demand
The Death of Cambodia’s “Highway of Death”
Violence in Indonesia’s Schools
Malaysia’s Vaunted Land Distribution Scheme Turns Sour
India, China Jockey for Influence in Oman
Islamic State Operatives in the Philippines
Cambodia Returns to a Nightmare
Indonesia’s Besieged Lawmakers Shield Selves from the Law
Delhi’s India Art Fair rises to the occasion
Myanmar Backtracks on Press Freedom
Difficult European Trek for China’s Belt & Road
Viet Activist’s Sentencing an Omen of Worse to Come
Malaysia Sentences a Bright Opposition Star
Fundamentalist Leader's Political Kiss of Life for Malaysian PM
China India Rivalry Now Plays Itself Out in Maldives
China’s Urbanization: Too Far, Too Fast?
Korea’s “Peace Olympics” Raises Seoul-Washington Tensions
As the Rest of the World Quits, Indonesia’s Smokers Increase
US Busts a Chinese Golden Triangle Billionaire
A Woman’s Sad Tale Embodies Myanmar’s HIV Problems
Male-to-Male Sex in Myanmar: A Curse Engendered by Poverty
US Sexual Scandal Reaches Macau
How Come China’s Ex-Reds Are So Much Better off Than Russia’s Ex-Reds?
Book Review: A ‘Vulcan’s’ Version of Asia-Pacific History
India’s BJP Preparing Snap Election?
50-Year-old ‘False News’s Accusations Against US Press
Sexual Harassment Rears its Head in Indonesia
South Korea in a Post-Trump World
Fifty Years Ago, Death Came to Saigon
Cambodia Goes on a Building Spree
India Woos ASEAN, ASEAN Flirts Back
Democracy No Longer Welcome in Hong Kong
China Expands its Reach, Meets Little Resistance
California Looks to Asia and Away from Washington
Mattis Address Illustrates Gap between US capabilities, those of Asian Foes
One of Japan’s Richest Headed for Cyprus?
Malaysia’s Leading News Portal Imperiled by Lawsuit Reversal
India’s Modi Government Pulls Out All Stops to Lure Foreign Investors
Money Can't Buy China Love – but Influence, Apparently
Philippines’ Duterte's Vicious Attack on Critics
India’s Chief Justice Under Attack by Peers
US: Drowning in Debt While Tycoons Laugh All the Way to the Bank
Indonesia’s Rising Fundamentalism Gets Uglier in Election Year
Malaysia’s Coming 14th General Election: Issue in Doubt
Thai Hire-Purchase Firm, Onetime Benefactor Try to Eradicate Each Other
Book Review: The Great Han -- Race, Nationalism and Tradition in China Today
Book Review: River of Life, River of Death – the Ganges and India’s Future
Book Review: Cultural Stagnation bred by Vietnamese censorship
Book Review: Inglorious Empire (What the British did to India)
Indonesia’s Jokowi Seeks to Slow Forest Fire Devastation
Dispossessed Rohingya Create a Bangladesh Environmental Disaster
Trump Topples South Asia Apple Cart
Mahathir Changes Malaysia’s Political Equation
Do Europe’s Oligarchs Tread Decks of Stolen Teak?
Indonesia Seeks to Raise Human Capital
North Korea’s Kim Holds All the Cards
An Indonesian Forest Treasure Threatened by Plantations
Asia: After a Goldilocks Year, 2018 Could Be Time for the Bears