Dossier

This web-dossier serves as a platform for experts from Timor-Leste to share and reflect about important policy issues as well as economic and political developments in the country.

Vietnam in Motion is a web-dossier that explores entangled stories of the people in contemporary Vietnam. Publishing scholarly articles, interviews, essays from artists, writers, and thinkers, it will look to range across disciplines and reflects on the transformation happening in the Socialist Republic Vietnam, a country of nearly 96 million people that still remains partly unobserved. By sharing the thoughts of experts in their fields of science, activism, the arts and beyond, it covers a wide range of important events that have crucial impact on the lives of the people. Vietnam in Motion thinks with and thinks about Vietnam, providing a space to reflect on politics, economy, future, nature, culture and the arts in the 21st century.

Seen as the first official parade in many years also with strong support from the newly elected Bangkok Governor, thousands of people including women, men, LGBTIQ+ and non-binary community members joined the event on Silom Road on Sunday, 5 June 2022.

In the year of the presidential election, this web-dossier takes a closer look into the state of the Philippines. It covers Electoral Democracy, the Duterte Presidency, media freedom, human rights, climate and energy, as well as disaster management and populism.

This web-dossier explores climate and energy issues in Thailand and Southeast Asia. It contains analysis, features, research and other multimedia materials from regional experts, academics, journalists and our partners.

While Zero-Waste communities, Urban Refill-Shops and student initiatives are challenging Thailand's mindset on plastic usage, an increasing amount of COVID-19 related plastic trash and waste imports from overseas seem to undermine the progress made for a sustainable foundation of a circular economy in the country. From interviews with committed young people who are trying to make a difference, to the effects of policy implementation on the ground. This web-dossier sheds a light on Thailand's plastic pollution problem from a mainly urban perspective.

In this web-dossier, mainly the Mekong region with Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam and the Mekong river as a regional and ASEAN issue will be explored.

For years, a citizens' initiative in the Indonesian Kendeng Karst-Mountain has been fighting against the destruction of their livelihoods by cement factories, among others, a subsidiary of the German HeidelbergCement. The transnational solidarity network Save Kendeng supports the farmers from the Kendeng Mountains.

  This web-dossier collects contributions of articles and opinion pieces from our partners and contacts from the Southeast Asia region on how COVID-19 pandemic impacts the socio-economic aspects of the people. This web-dossier covers topics such as Migrant Workers' Rights, Human Rights, Economics, Freedom of Expression, Women's Rights, Natural Resource Management.