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September 30, 2024
Greenwashing Raises Red Flags With Indonesian Consumers
By Ridho Bramulya Ikhsan
Consumers including millennials choose carefully, increasingly aware of deceptive environmental claims by businesses.
September 27, 2024
How Social Media Is Pushing Vapes on Young Indians
By Monika Arora, Shalini Bassi, and Shishirendu Ghosal
E-cigarette companies are exploiting social media platforms and websites to recruit young customers by misleading them into nicotine addiction.
September 25, 2024
Why Millions Go Unaccounted for in India’s Invisible Slum Crisis
By Namesh Killemsetty
Lack of census data impacts efforts to launch intervention programs for dwellers in informal settlements.
September 20, 2024
4 Obstacles to India Joining the UN Security Council
By Dhananjay Tripathi
Despite persistent lobbying, experts say it’s unlikely India will gain permanent membership of the U.N. Security Council anytime soon for several reasons.
September 09, 2024
Indonesia’s Shifting Views on Marriage and Babies
By I Dewa Gede Karma Wisana and Diahhadi Setyonaluri
Delayed marriages coupled with the growing aspiration of young people choosing to remain childfree may have a substantial impact on Indonesia's fertility rate.
September 07, 2024
Bangladesh’s Flood Response Turns Crisis Into Cooperation
By Shafiqul Islam Shafik
Bangladesh has shown how its “engineering diplomacy” approach to managing a flood crisis could be a pathway to resilience.
September 04, 2024
Australian Government Undermines Census in Bid to Avoid Division
By Liz Allen
The Australian government's stunning intervention into the national census, and its sudden backflip, has broken trust and left it unclear what's next.
August 29, 2024
Law and Order in Australia Has a Blind Spot: Human Rights
By Luke McNamara
A 'tough on crime' political culture tends to bring the same solution to every crisis: harsher laws. That’s a problem.
August 27, 2024
The Big Numbers India Needs to Hit 2047 Target
By Mandar P. Oak
Modi’s Independence Day speech focused on the goal of ‘Viksit Bharat,' meaning developed India, by 2047. Achieving that would need an economic miracle.
August 26, 2024
Can the Pacific Islands Forum Help Resolve the Conflict in New Caledonia?
By Pierre-Christophe Pantz
After months of violence, New Caledonia independence groups will turn to the PIF in hopes of buoying their case for self-determination from France.
August 23, 2024
Can the Agnipath Scheme Fix India’s Army?
By Gunjan Singh
The attempt to repair the defense budget with a short-term troop intake largely backfired, but it can still be made to work.
August 21, 2024
Could Mpox Become Established in the Indo-Pacific?
By Vinod Balasubramaniam
While the Indo-Pacific has been one of the regions least affected by mpox in the past, that could change if the virus spreads unchecked.