Asia Sentinel

Filipino Priests Answer Call of Human Nature

• But do their best not to pay for it Read more...

Opinion: The Oz Asylum Seeker Racket

• Australia's former Director of Policy on refugee and humanitarian entry, himself a onetime émigré, says this has got to stop Read more...

Book Review: Altar of Secrets

• A devastating look at sex, politics and money in the Philippine Catholic Church by Aries C. Rufo. Published by the Journalism for Nation Building Foundation, Pasig City, Philippines. Soft cover, 309 pp. Available at bookstores in the Philippines

Najib's Peace Overtures

• Anwar confirms Malaysian PM's feelers for a unity government

Vietnam's New Internet Decree

? Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Singapore's Cadre System

? One man's view built the Island Republic

Thailand's Bogus Human Rights Report

• A report on the tragic events of 2010 whitewashes the role of the military

Preserving Hiroshima's A-Bomb Heritage

• The grim legacy of the nuclear bombs the US dropped on Japan 60 years ago

Pakistan's Uneducated Children

• A feudal society sends children to the workplace

The Asylum-Seeker Debate in Australia

• Misinformation, exaggeration, fabrication, ideological blinkers

How Important is the Australian Election?

• If the oil boom works out, not very

Politics

Najib's Peace Overtures

• Anwar confirms Malaysian PM's feelers for a unity government

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Economics/Business

Decoding Li-konomics

• Can China's premier pull off sustainable growth?

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Society

Filipino Priests Answer Call of Human Nature

• But do their best not to pay for it

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Opinion

Opinion: The Importance of Edward Snowden

• Considering the Bill of Rights

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SPECIALS

Summer Reading

Asia Sentinel presents three books about important Asian figures and issues:

Dark Spring
by Azly Rahman
Essays on the ideological roots of Malaysia's GE-13

Strongman
by Harish C. Mehta and Julie B. Mehta
The extraordinary life of Hun Sen: from Pagoda Boy to Prime Minister

His Holiness: The 17th Karmapa
by Tsering Namgyal Khortsa
A biography of Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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