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Bangkok not all trouble and strife
Put aside the malaise in Thai politics and society for a moment and take the time to enjoy this beautifully shot and edited short film, shot in and around Bangkok, Pai, Mae Hong…
Bangkok not all trouble and strife
Put aside the malaise in Thai politics and society for a moment and take the time to enjoy this beautifully shot and edited short film, shot in and around Bangkok, Pai, Mae Hong…
Bangkok not all trouble and strife
Put aside the malaise in Thai politics and society for a moment and take the time to enjoy this beautifully shot and edited short film, shot in and around Bangkok, Pai, Mae Hong…
Wednesday links: Sochi, Snowden, Syria, Baucus, China's manifest destiny and more
US intelligence chief says China has a sense of 'manifest destiny' about its role in the South China and East China seas. Journalists describe the conditions in Sochi's hotels…
Monday links: Li Na, Philip Seymour Hoffman, UN fashion, energy, Abenomics and more
It takes some skill to turn a story about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan into wry, witty comedy without ever making light of the war itself, yet that's what the brilliant…
The State of the Union scarcely mentioned Asia – and that's no surprise
US presidential State of the Union addresses (SotU) are frequently as important for what the leave out as what they include. President Obama’s SotU, delivered yesterday in…
Monday links: Vietnam, China interest rates, corruption, Snowden, Japan and more
Are China's interest rates too high, or too low? Corruption in Indonesia and India may be way higher than estimated: why graft is so hard to calculate. As Myanmar's economy…
Thursday links: Big ideas, Syria and the Shia, China predictions, Iran's party island and more
McKinsey makes its 2014 China predictions. The Shanghai FTZ will be a damp squib, apparently. (Thanks Martine.) Asia's factories slowly going green. My colleague Rodger Shanahan…
Thursday links: Science fiction, Afghanistan, Shanghai, China's military and more
Full text of the report by President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. 'This war is ending, not with victory, not with defeat but with hope that…
The Lowy Institute's own books of the year
So far, we've offered you twelve books of the year in four installments. To close this feature, a reminder that the Lowy Institute itself has had quite a remarkable publishing…