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Dr. Danny Marks, SEARC board member/AIS assistant professor, published an op-ed "It’s time to scrap the Dawei Special Economic Zone" on Frontier Myanmar yesterday.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director was an invited participant for the “Roundtable: Southeast Asian Elections, Populism and Authoritarianism" at the 9th Europeans Southeast Asian (EuroSEAS) Conference, Oxford University, 16-18 August 2017. At the same conference, he also presented papers on "Duterte's 'Right' Populism in the Philippines" and on "The Anti-Marcos Struggle Revisited".

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director, wrote an article titled "Duterte’s illiberal democracy" for the East Asia Forum about the first year of Rodrigo Duterte's presidency in the Philippines.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director, won a 2017-18 General Research Fund (GRF) award. He is the Principal Investigator and his project title is "The Rise of Illiberal Populist Rule in the Philippines."

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director was quoted in a Time Magazine article entitled "A Bloody Drug War and an ISIS-Linked City Siege Mark Duterte’s First Year in Office" and a documentary film about Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's first year in office. 

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director co-authored on an article on Philippine president Rodrigo R Duterte's first year in office in The Diplomat entitled "Duterte’s Year of Sound and Fury" published on 30 June 2017.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director was quoted in an article entitled "Rodrigo Duterte loves bashing the US — but he also loves US troops fighting terrorists for him" by the Vox on 27 June 2017.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director gave a lecture on Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to the presidency in the Philippines on 16 May 2017 in the lecture series “Change in East Asia” of the China Centre of the University of Tuebingen, Germany. On 17 May 2017 he will hold a seminar on “China’s ‘Singapore Model’” for the Institute of Sinology at the University of Tuebingen.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director published an article in The Conversation titled "Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte: a not-so-surprising political friendship" about US president Trump's recent phone call with Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director, was interviewed on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio programme RN drive on May 1st about US president Donald Trump inviting Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to the White House. To hear the interview click here.

An interview with Prof. Mark R. Thompson (published in College Magazine - CITY CLASS 文‧社采風). Please click here to read the article.

Cornell University is hosting a conference on "Sustainability in Asia: "Partnerships for Research and Implementation" in HK on 6-7 April which brings together international scholars, scientists, practitioners, and policy influencers from the United States and Asia who are working to advance sustainable practices and solutions throughout the world about advances in sustainability research, community engagement, and opportunities for collaboration in Asia. Click here for the program.

Dr. Stephan Ortmann, SEARC board member, was quoted in an article titled "Red v green in Vietnam" in the Economist published on 16 February 2017.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, Head of AIS/SEARC Director, published an article titled "Philippine opposition finds its voice as Duterte pauses his bloody drug war" on the suspension of the "war of drugs" in the Philippines in The Conversation. 

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director, has been invited to give a SEAP Gatty Lecture at the Southeast Asia Program of Cornell University on March 23, 2017. His topic is "Democracy and its Discontents in Southeast Asia."

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, head of AIS/SEARC director will give a talk on Philippine politics titled “Duterte’s Violent ‘Right’ Populism in the Philippines” at the prestigious Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University on Wednesday, 15 February 2017.

Dr. Thomas Patton was quoted in an article entitled, “Doll with a dead fetus’ spirit? How Hongkongers have embraced Thai occult charms” for the South China Morning Post. Tuesday, 07 February, 2017.

Prof. Mark R Thompson, SEARC director/AIS head, has edited and contributed an article titled "The Early Duterte Presidency in the Philippines" to a special journal issue on the controversial presidency of Rodrigo R. Duterte of the Philippines.

Dr Toby Carroll and Dr Ruben Gonzalez Vicente co-authored an article entitled "From New Deal to the art of the deal: how the neoliberal project led to Trump" in The Conversation on 20 January 2017. 

Dr. Sean Starrs, SEARC board member, was a panel member on RTHK Radio 3 "Backchat" He discussed the obscenity of global inequality and Oxfam's latest report.

Dr. Yuk Wah Chan, SEARC board member, wrote an article entitled "What drives Chinese outbound tourism?" in the East Asia Forum on 16 December 2016.

Dr Stephan Ortmann, SEARC board member/AIS Research Fellow, wrote an article entitled "China’s seizure of Singaporean tanks: A public relations crisis, but relations likely to return to normal" in the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Policy Forum on 2 December 2016. 

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS Head/SEARC director, gave a talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on Duterte's Bloody Democracy in the Philippines on 25 October 2016. You can find both Podcast and presentation slides on this website. 

Prof. William Case, SEARC former director, was interviewed by the Malay Mail Online to discuss about "Analysts: Malaysia’s blossoming ties with China not tilt away from US" on on 3 November 2016.

Prof. Mark R Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director will be the keynote speaker at the conference 'Competing Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia: The Search for Identity and Legitimacy' which will be held at the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Chiang Mai Thailand on 21-22 October 2016. He will also give a talk about Philippine democracy under Rodrigo Duterte titled "Duterte's Bloody Democracy in the Philippines" at the London School of Economics on 25 October 2016.

Prof. Mark R Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director contributed an article titled "How Duterte’s Drug War Taps Into The Philippines’ Zeitgeist" to the Huffington Post/The Conversation Global about Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs."

Dr. Stephan Ortmann, SEARC board member, wrote an article titled "Singapore’s succession struggles" for the East Asia Forum about the threat to post-independence stability in Singaporean politics due to the uncertainty of successors.

Dr. Chan Yuk Wah, SEARC board member, wrote an article titled "Moving with the times" for East Asia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 8 No. 3: July - September, 2016.

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, head of AIS/SEARC director, was interviewed by Voice of America (VOA) about his views on Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's use of a national narrative to oppose the United States for an article titled "Philippines President Steers New Foreign Policy Path."

Dr. Bradley Williams was quoted in an article titled "North Korea makes rare public appeal for flood relief" for CNN about his views on North Korean government's open and public call for assistance. 

Prof. Mark R. Thompson, AIS head/SEARC director will be the academic keynote speaker at the Philippine Update Conference 2016: Substaining the Momentum for Change in 2016 at the Australian National University. He will also give a talk on "Democracy and its Discontent in Southeast Asia" at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific on 1 September 2016.