Ear to Asia

Veteran China watcher Prof Martin K. Whyte explains why Chinese citizens remain unfazed by the enormous income and wealt... Read more

Asia international relations experts Dr Sow Keat Tok and Dr Pradeep Taneja unravel the motivations and implications behi... Read more

Australia’s relationship with Indonesia is complex, often fluid but sometimes fraught. How do these two nations regard e... Read more

China’s social credit system is being rolled out and will by 2020 track the behavior of all of its 1.4 billion citizens,... Read more

China has been cracking down hard on Uyghur and other Muslim groups in its far northwestern region of Xinjiang. But what... Read more

Followers of the Gülen movement, some 10 million strong and active in 160 countries, remain to this day the target of re... Read more

Asia researchers Dr Jun Ohashi and Dr Jay Song consider the optics of Japan’s relations with it neighbours, the Koreas a... Read more

Confucianism is experiencing a revival in China, with President Xi Jinping now publicly endorsing Confucius’ millennia-o... Read more

To many observers, Xi Jinping’s leadership appears to be a throwback to the Mao Zedong era. But is it fair to compare Xi... Read more

China recently abolished term limits for its presidency, clearing the way for Xi Jinping to continue indefinitely — poss... Read more

While Chinese notions of an ideal society can be traced back more than two millennia to Confucius, it’s the Chinese Comm... Read more

China's citizens are now demanding more from the nation’s healthcare system, with its tangle of institutions, insurance ... Read more

Given the notably mixed results of recent elections in the region, just how healthy is the practice of democracy in Sout... Read more

Southeast Asia historian Dr Matthew Galway discusses Cambodia’s politics, culture and history through the lens of Hun Se... Read more

China's household registration—or hukou—system identifies citizens by their urban or rural origins and follows them wher... Read more

Social anthropologist Prof. Kaori Okano talks to presenter Ali Moore about the life transitions of a group of Japanese w... Read more

How does Pakistan fit into Xi Jinping’s geopolitical ambitions for China? And how do the deepening military and economic... Read more

Thae Yong-ho, North Korea’s highest ranking defector, joins us in the studio to share his unique insights into North Kor... Read more

Diasporas, once viewed by their homelands as merely remittance cash cows, are increasingly being seen by labor-exporting... Read more

While both China and Japan run museums dedicated to the horrors of WWII, how well are the facts allowed to speak for the... Read more