Liberation Theology for the Lands of Diversity? Free Software in Asia
This resource is from last year, but is nonetheless an indispensible resource for people interested in the development of free and open source software in Asia. After an overview the author provides us with a detailed country by country survey. More...
Hundreds of researchers in Taiwan have signed an open letter urging the public to vote to continue the phase out of nuclear power in an upcoming referendum. Last year, Taiwanese legislators added a clause to the island’s electricity act to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2025, writes Andrew Silver for Nature. More...Many students applying for financial aid at Chinese universities find that submitting written documents isn’t enough – to win the cash, they must give speeches in public about their plight and hope their stories are ‘moving’ enough to earn the audience votes they need to qualify, write Ding Jie, Mo Xiaotian and Teng Jing Xuan for Caixin. More...By Kalinga Seneviratne. Many of the country’s leading universities have introduced international programmes that teach courses in the English language, and have opened their doors to foreign students, particularly from the Asian region, as part of Thailand’s integration into the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) market, as well as American and European students who come for semester-long exchange programmes. More...
Murdoch University recently made headlines again for all the wrong reasons – a substantial influx of international students, many with poor English language skills, and concerns about both the failure rate and plagiarism. More...The previous issue of Advocate (vol. 25, no. 2, July 2018) contained a thorough account of the events at the Australian National University (ANU)after it was approached by the Ramsay Centre to host a sponsored academic program on ‘Western Civilisation’. More...The dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, on 11 November 1975 was an unprecedented, divisive and disruptive use of the Governor-General’s putative ‘reserve powers’. Kerr’s actions in removing an elected government which retained its parliamentary majority and the confidence of the House of Representatives, remains one of the most contentious episodes in our political history. More...Education Minister Dan Tehan’s announcement of a new rule requiring the Minister to reveal when an Australian Research Council (ARC) recommended grant is blocked at ministerial level, doesn’t go anywhere near far enough, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) said today. More...
By . The Indonesian economy has grown solidly in recent years, which together with helpful government policies has raised incomes and brought down poverty rates to record lows, as highlighted in the latest OECD Economic Survey of Indonesia (OECD, 2018). Prudent macroeconomic policies have contributed to economic stability, muted inflation and limited government debt. Even with the more challenging external environment, GDP growth is expected to remain around 5¼ per cent in 2018 and 2019. More...
China - Traditional Music Sound Archives
This is the sort of thing I would much rather be covering in these pages: the UNESCO project digitizing (and hence preserving for all of humanity) traditional Chinese music has concluded. Clips are available on this website. More...
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