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Rallies and timezones 25 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
Written for Bulatlat Because of varying time zones, it is almost impossible to organize synchronized global protests. Realtime uprisings in the global village are actually done in a continuum. Let u...
LGBT Politics in Southeast Asia 24 Aug 2013 | 02:47 am
Written for The Diplomat Is Southeast Asia becoming more tolerant towards its LGBT community? Consider these recent developments in the region: A Singaporean politician admitted on Facebook that he ...
Are Myanmar and the Philippines Guilty of Genocide? 21 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
Written for The Diplomat It is common for unpopular governments to be accused by their enemies of committing serious human rights violations such as murder and kidnapping, but it is not often that ge...
Beyond Internet Activism 17 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
My first column for Bulatlat The opposite of internet activism is not street activism but no-activism. Online petitions and political hashtags are indispensable in the campaign for change while non-a...
Will ASEAN Countries Move Their Capitals? 16 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
Written for The Diplomat If things fall apart and the center cannot hold, will anarchy be unleashed upon the world, as the poet William Butler Yeats famously wrote? Maybe. But there is a less chaotic...
Bad Neighbors and Evil Foreigners in Southeast Asia 8 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
Written for The Diplomat Some say a specter is haunting Southeast Asia today: bad neighbors and evil foreigners. For many people in the region, it was the non-locals who caused the biggest tragedies ...
Congress Lobbying 3 Aug 2013 | 08:22 am
Based on my presentation during the Emerging Youth Leaders training at the Asian Institute of Management, July 20, 2013 1. There are lobbyists and there are registered lobbyists. But in the Philippin...
Youth Empowerment 27 Jul 2013 | 02:47 pm
Talumpating binigkas sa regional student leaders assembly ng University of Assumption, San Fernando, Pampanga World Youth Day. Nagtitipon ang maraming kabataan ngayon sa Brazil para sa World Youth Da...
Southeast Asia Scales Down on Subsidies 26 Jul 2013 | 05:34 pm
Written for The Diplomat Several Southeast Asian countries have begun scaling down the subsidies they are providing to key sectors of their economies. Last month, the Thai government confirmed that i...
Does Indonesia’s SBY Deserve the World Statesman Award? 23 Jul 2013 | 11:07 am
Written for The Diplomat The first surprise came when the U.S.-based Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) decided to give Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (aka SBY) the World Statesman ...
