Keyword: myanmar
Thant Myint-U and Tom Nagorski discuss the Southeast Asian country's sudden reversal of fortune — from regional darling to international pariah.
BuzzFeed News correspondent Megha Rajagopalan discusses China’s policy in Xinjiang, the future of surveillance technology, and social media’s effect on geopolitics.
The two reporters had been incarcerated since 2017 for their reporting on the plight of the Rohingya. Asia Society awarded them with Asia's most prominent journalism prize last year.
Members of the Asia Society family tell us what they think is going to happen next year.
Rather than help the isolated Southeast Asian country solve its problems, the social network has instead amplified them. But Myanmar's challenges go far beyond Facebook.
Robert Wright argues that mindfulness practice can help erode what has become of the world's biggest problems.
Asia Society's Debra Eisenman discusses the unfolding crisis involving the group often called "the world's most persecuted minority."
Human trafficking expert Matt Friedman describes how millions are lured into slavery in Asia — and what can be done about it.
Asia Society Policy Institute Executive Director Debra Eisenman describes the events that led to unprecedented violence toward Myanmar's "stateless" Muslim minority.
Asia Society looks back through the camera lens at some of its most colorful moments of the year.
