Asia

East Asia is responding to a post-growth world – one reshaped by population decline, shrinking cities and economic stagnation. Now it’s changing how they build

From Comfort Women memorials to researchers facing court battles, telling difficult histories is becoming a complex balancing act

The work of author Ian Hideo Levy, the first Westerner to write literature in Japanese, questions the links between language, nation and ethnicity

Pita Limjaroenrat may have won Thailand’s elections, but he isn’t Prime Minister. He says he’s still hopeful his country will become a true democracy, without the military in government

The Korean Wave is a global phenomenon, but there’s a dark side to South Korea’s soft-power strategy that we need to talk about

A new book investigates the ravages of the COVID-19 impact on people in the informal economy across Southeast and South Asia

Asia capable initiatives that only target adults and young adults leaves it far too late – it has to start in our schools

COVID-19 exposed the shortcomings of Australia’s public health communication to older culturally and linguistically diverse communities

Globally, women and children bear the brunt of family violence. A project in the Asia Pacific is working to make a difference

Australia’s new government has made Southeast Asia a priority with a focus on the idea of a shared future