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Bangladeshi director's film to be screened at New York's Bard College

Noman Robin's directorial feature film "Blossoms from Ash" has already earned praise at various film festivals and forums worldwide.

Pundits offer Pheu Thai pointers on foreign affairs

Scholars see Beijing as ideal war mediator

China might be a good mediator in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a number of Thai political experts have claimed.

Multiple voices of Malaya and Nusantara

Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 13:00 to 14:30 The concept of ‘Malaya’ continues to exert a powerful draw on our imagination, steeped in exotism and Orientalist reductions. Even decades after the end of the colonial period, it casts a long shadow over modern-day Malaysia and the rest of maritime Southeast Asia. The edited volume,  Revisiting Malaya, takes regional Cold War divisions and historical links and fractures into consideration, seeking to understand the power of thoughts and practices in anticolonial independence movements in Malaya and more broadly the Malay World or Nusantara – in which different colonised bodies sought to unify, integrate and negotiate their struggles to expel colonialism. This period witnessed the revolutionary dynamics of Third World nations in resisting colonialism, yet it also marked the construction of new geographical and national discourse that generated conflicts and misunderstandings until today.