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Ghost Maps follows a mysterious narrator as he chronicles the supernatural in Singapore and around Southeast Asia. Inspired by stories generously shared by real people. Subscribe to us, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @wearehantu.New episodes on 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month. For advertising opportunities please reach out @ www.hantu.sg/contact Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The SEA4 Podcast aims to bring the stories of refugees from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam and their American-born descendants into the mainstream. By focusing on athletes and other accomplished individuals who have overcome adversity we hope to inspire others to pursue their dreams. John Messina and Ko Chandetka from the Lao American Sports Hall of Fame will be interviewing athletes and others who represent the diverse cultures of Southeast Asia including Lao, Laotian, Khmu, Khmer, Hmong, Viet ...
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Charles Keith, "Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France" (U California Press, 2024)
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When we think of the history of French colonialism in Indochina, we tend to think of the French in Indochina. Yet during the colonial period about 200,000 Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Lao travelled to France to study, work, or plan revolution. While we may be familiar with the most famous of these Indochinese sojourners in France, Nguyen Ai Quoc, ak…
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#119: Haunted Hospital in Hong Kong - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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A pregnant woman finds herself at the mercy of a spirit in a Causeway Bay hospital. Plus, The Collector discovers more about his third eye and how it connects to previous collectors. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - W…
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Sambo Kim: Promoting Bokator and the Kun Khmer Martial Arts
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Sambo Kim, born in Cambodia, found his connection to an ancient Khmer tradition not in his homeland but 8,000 miles away in America. It was there that he discovered Bokator, a martial art with deep roots in his heritage. Like many young people, Sambo’s initial exposure to martial arts came through Hollywood films, but what began as a childhood fasc…
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James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties dramatically affected imperial China’s relations with the emerging kingdoms in its borderlands. Local chiefs before the tenth century had considered the control of such contacts an importan…
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Mark Tamthai: Remembering Chaiwat Satha-Anand
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Why was the late Ajarn Chaiwat Satha-Anand so passionate about bringing peace to Thailand’s deep south? How did he try to speak nonviolence to Thai power elites? In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, Ajarn Mark Tamthai of Payap University talks about his memories of working with Chaiwat, especially their efforts to end the ongoing violent confl…
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Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global infrastructure production today is focused squarely on Asia. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia (U Hawaii Press, 2022) investigates the deeper implications of that pivot to the East. Written by lead…
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Soraj Hongladarom et al., "Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia" (Springer, 2024)
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The open-access edited volume Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (Springer, 2023) collects philosophical approaches to Southeast Asian traditions of philosophy and religion. The editors, Soraj Hongladarom, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, and Frank J. Hoffman, have produced a volume that treats traditional topics in phi…
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Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)
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The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the People's Action Party began to deliver on its promises in dramatic fashion. By the 1980s, 85 percent of the population had been rehoused in modern flats, and today, decades later, the provision of pu…
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Meg Rithmire, "Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships between the state and business. But these relationships have not always been smooth, as…
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Geomancy & Ghost Stories with Ao Cheng - DEAD AIR
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Kyle and Wayne speak with gigging musician Ao Cheng about his own supernatural encounters—and why it's sometimes even more frightening being a freelance performer. ►FOLLOW AO CHENG HERE: YouTube Instagram TikTok Location Rental ►DEAD AIR CREDITS: Wayne Rée - Host / Writer Kyle Ong - Host / Producer Joline Lim - Art Director ►SUPPORT & FIND US HERE:…
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#118: Mischievous Kuman Thongs in Pattaya Hotel - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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A pair of dragon boat rowers encounter strange happenings in their hotel room in Pattaya. Plus, The Collector tries to learn more about his third eye. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writer Joline Lim - Art Director …
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Talking Thai Politics: Pannika Wanich, Progressive Activist
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In this inaugural episode of Talking Thai Politics, Pannika Wanich of the Progressive Movement talks about generational contestation in Thailand, as well the evolution of Future Forward, Move Forward and the newly-formed People’s Party. A former political journalist and LSE graduate, 36-year old Pannika served as the spokesperson of the now-dissolv…
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Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest argues that lesbian writing – by lesbians and about lesbians – is a form of activism and decolonial praxis, as well as an important form of political identity. Dr Naomi Cammayo’s academic/literary interests are within the fields of poetry, Philippine …
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Sharon M. Quinsaat, "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (U Chicago Press, 2024), Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlan…
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#117: Hungry Ghost Month 2024 – The Final Goodbye - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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In our final Hungry Ghost Month story, learn the heartbreaking story of Henry, the ghostly go-between for The Collector and a family of spirits. Find out how he died—and what he's left behind. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Way…
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Faizah Zakaria, "The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Recurring tropes about fragmented communities living on frontier forestlands living in Southeast Asia are that they are either guardians of flora and fauna their destroyers. In much analysis gravitating to one or other position in this dichotomy the role of organised religion is absent. But as Faizah Zakaria shows in The Camphor Tree and the Elepha…
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Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman, "Mango: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Mango: A Global History (Reaktion, 2024) by Constance L. Kirker & Dr Mary Newman is a beautifully illustrated book that takes us on a tour through the rich world of mangoes, which inspire fervent devotion across the world. In South Asia, mangoes boast a history steeped in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, even earning a mention in the Kama Sutra. Beyon…
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#116: Hungry Ghost Month 2024 – Justice for the Dead - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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Will a ghost that was wrongly murdered let his anger overtake him—and who will pay the price if this spirit gives in to the hatred? Find out in our fifth Hungry Ghost Month story. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writ…
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Francisca Yuenki Lai, "Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
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Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships…
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#115: Hungry Ghost Month 2024 – The Ghost King - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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Our third Hungry Ghost Month story takes us to Sarawak, where a motherly spirit encounters something far more frightening than another ghost. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writer Joline Lim - Art Director ►SUPPORT …
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Help Ghost Maps win in the Asia Podcast Awards!
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Help Ghost Maps win in the Asia Podcast Awards! Vote for us in the People's Choice Vote, under the Best Fictional Podcast category: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AsiaPodcastAwards2024PplChoice We're up against some fierce—and amazing—competition, so every one of you counts! Vote now: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AsiaPodcastAwards2024PplChoice Ho…
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#114: Hungry Ghost Month 2024 – A Beast in Sarawak - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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Our third Hungry Ghost Month story takes us to Sarawak, where a motherly spirit encounters something far more frightening than another ghost. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writer Joline Lim - Art Director ►SUPPORT …
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Matthew Nola: Building pickleball in Laos
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At the bottom, there's only one direction to go: up. When Matthew Nola left the Nong Khai refugee camp and boarded a one-way flight to America with his family, he could only have imagined that his return ticket would come in the form of an unexpected game: pickleball. Now recognized as the fastest-growing sport in the world, pickleball has transfor…
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Justine Chambers, "Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar" (NUS Press, 2024)
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What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to this question in what has been called, a “moral turn”. In this original ethnographic study, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (NUS Press, 2024), Justine Chambers…
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Return of Incredible Tales - DEAD AIR
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Kyle and Wayne sit down to talk about what you can expect from Tales From Incredible Tales season two—from frightening locations to surprise guests! ►CHECK OUT INCREDIBLE TALES HERE: MeWatch: https://www.mewatch.sg/show/Tales-From-Incredible-Tales-434229 MeListen: https://www.melisten.sg/podcast/playlist/Tales-from-Incredible-Tales-2297591 YouTube:…
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How – and How Much – has Malaysian Politics Changed Since 2018, and Why?
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In this episode, host LSE Southeast Asia Centre Director John Sidel speaks with Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany and a leading specialist on Malaysian politics. In the interview, Professor Weiss provides in-depth analysis and insights with regard to the complex patterns of continuity and change in Malaysian politics sin…
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#113: Hungry Ghost Month 2024 – Spirit of a Murder Victim - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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For the second Hungry Ghost Month story this year, learn about how a young woman's tragic death in the 1970s still affects the students in a Singaporean university till this day. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Write…
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Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)
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Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the sultan of Sulu. These are just a few of the historical topics from Lio Mangubat’s Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period (Faction Press: 2024), a collection of 13 …
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#112: Hungry Ghost Month 2024 – Angry Child Spirit - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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In the first of this year's Hungry Ghost Month stories, a child spirit tells the story of how he goes from a playful and mischevious entity—to something more violent. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writer Joline Lim…
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Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…
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Tales From Incredible Tales is back for Season Two!
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More guests, more episodes—and more stories about the classic Mediacorp horror series! Tune in to season two of Tales From Incredible Tales tomorrow evening at 8pm (GMT+8) on MeWatch, MeListen, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. MeWatch: https://www.mewatch.sg/show/Tales-From-Incredible-Tales-434229 MeListen: https://www.melisten.sg/podcast/playl…
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On Sino-Vietnamese Border Relations
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In this episode, host SEAC Director John Sidel talks with Dr Qingfei Yin, SEAC Associate and Assistant Professor of International History at LSE. Dr Qingfei Yin talks about her new book State Building in Cold War Asia Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border (due out with Cambridge University Press in August 2024), explains how she be…
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Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indige…
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Politics in Action 2024: Malaysia Update
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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#111: Third-Eye Horror Stories: The Haunted Office - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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A woman's office on Scotts Road in Singapore is haunted by a spirit—but is it harmless or malicious? Plus: what does The Collector's new gift mean for him as we enter the Hungry Ghost Month? Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne…
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Anna Ounoutha: Probation Officer and Motorcycle Drag Racer
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Life is a journey filled with highs, lows, joy and pain and no one knows this better than Anna Ounoutha. Raised by refugee parents from Laos, she experienced the devastating loss of her brother to gang violence and became a mother during her teenage years. Instead of succumbing to these challenges, Anna transformed adversity into motivation. She pu…
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Malaysian Ghost Stories with Kelvin Tay - DEAD AIR
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Kelvin Tay—founder of the Malaysian podcasting network, Renegade Radio—chats with Kyle about his country's horror stories, including a particularly creepy one from Port Dickson. ►THIS EPISODE'S HORROR RECOMMENDATIONS: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010) Annabelle (2014) ►DEAD AIR CREDITS: Wayne Rée - Host / Writer Kyle Ong - Host / Producer Joline Lim - …
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Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and development have led to increased attention to the concept of pan-Asianism. Most of that discussion, however, lacks any historical grounding in the thought of influential twentieth-century pan-Asianists. In Pan-Asianism and t…
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Politics in Action 2024: Singapore Update
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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#110: Third-Eye Horror Stories: The Pontianak Follows - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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A pontianak stalks a group of young friends. Will they find out that they're being hunted in time—and, if they do, will they even be able to escape? Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writer Joline Lim - Art Director ►S…
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Eric Thompson, "The Story of Southeast Asia" (NUS Press, 2024)
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Does Southeast Asia “exist”? It’s a real question: Southeast Asia is a geographic region encompassing many different cultures, religions, political styles, historical experiences, and languages, economies. Can we think of this part of the world as one cohesive “place”? Eric Thompson, in his book The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press: 2024), sugges…
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Timothy Barnard, "Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City" (NUS Press, 2024)
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In Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024), historian Tim Barnard and his colleagues offer an edited volume of historical and ecological analysis, in which various institutions, perspectives and events involving animals provide insight into the development of Singapore as a modern, urban nat…
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Politics in Action 2024: Laos Update
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Andy Rasavongseuk: New York Fire Fighter
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For most of us help is only a phone call away but we often forget that those responding in our time of need are fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters… everyday people. At no time was that more evident than on September 11th, 2001 when 343 firefighters lost their lives. From routine fire inspections to one of the darkest days in our nation’s histor…
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Politics in Action 2024: Vietnam Update
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country. Fifty years after the last sortie, residents of rural Cambodia are still coping with the unexploded ordnance that covers their land. In When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of W…
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#109: Third-Eye Horror Stories: Cemetery Spirits - GHOST MAPS - True Southeast Asian Horror Stories
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A young woman shares the story of when she first learned she had the third eye—and how it brought her and her father closer together. Ghost Maps follows an unnamed narrator as he chronicles true accounts of the supernatural across Southeast Asia. ►GHOST MAPS CREDITS: Kyle Ong - Director Wayne Rée - Writer Joline Lim - Art Director ►SUPPORT & FIND U…
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Politics in Action 2024: Indonesia Update
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Clare Hammond, "On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar" (Allen Lane, 2024)
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In 2016, journalist Clare Hammond embarked on a project to study the railways of Myanmar–a transportation network that sprawls the country, rarely used and not shown on many maps, and often used at the pleasure of the country’s military. In her book On the Shadow Tracks; A Journey Through Occupied Myanmar (Allen Lane, 2024), Clare travels the lengt…
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