In 2016, Philippine Congresswoman Geraldine Roman became the first openly transgender woman elected to a national legislature in Asia. Her election received international media attention and was ...

Last year New Mandala was pleased to be able to introduce our Emerging Scholar Award, an initiative aimed at promoting the dissemination of outstanding PhD research on Southeast Asia to a global ...

Ryan Gem is a researcher, writer, educator, and advocate for more inclusive and representative democracies. He is currently the Learning & Evaluation Manager at People Powered, a global hub for ...

At the end of 1992 after the dissolution of powerful friend the Soviet Union, the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, a major organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with responsibility for ...

Indonesia’s labour unions refer to the new omnibus legislation proposed by the government as RUU Cilaka, which sounds like the Bahasa Indonesia word for “wretched”.