Category: Featured
Featured articles from FORSEA contributors.
SOFT LAUNCH OF DEMOCRACY FEST
At the Soft Launch of Democracy Fest on February 8, 2019, 11 doves were released to symbolise the 11 countries that make up Southeast Asia.
NEWS ON THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF FORSEA
On February 16, 2019 at FORSEA’s official launch in Kuala Lumpur, we will welcome the reformist Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad as keynote speaker, and there will be pre-recorded remarks on democracy, human rights and international politics by Noam Chomsky.
POLITICISED THAI CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
บทบาททางการเมืองของศาลรัฐธรรมนูญ: อาจารย์ธีระ สุธีวรางกูล จากคณะนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
ANOTHER ELECTION DELAY WOULD KILL THAILAND’S DEMOCRACY
One hopes that elections will actually be held this time around. Failure by the government to keep to the recently announced date could lead to political instability.
VIDEO: PRAJAK KONGKIRATI on the THAI ELECTIONS 2019
In a FORSEA exclusive, Dr Prajak Kongkirati from Bangkok's Thammasat University, speaks about Thailand's military government and its inherent distain of the democratic process as upcoming polls loom for the country.
OF KING, SEX, & ABDICATION
Sultan Mohammad V could have diffused the controversy if he had taken the path of another Constitutional Monarch, England’s King Edward VIII who abdicated in 1936 and walked into the horizon for “love.”
ORGANISING FOR FUTURE POLITICS IN SINGAPORE
In this digital age, dictators can no longer enjoy the monopoly of the tools of information dissemination, or rely on their controlled media to mould peoples’ thoughts.
US GENOCIDE RESOLUTION WELCOME, BUT ROHINGYA NEED MORE
The United States will not intercede, meanwhile, Myanmar's neighbours see it through the economic lens, so an international coalition for the Rohingya is needed.
NO MATTER HOW THAILAND VOTES, THE MILITARY’S GRIP WILL STAY
Even if those who oppose the junta win the elections, they would be deeply hampered by the constitution’s anti-democratic elements.
FORSEA’s VIEW: MALAYSIA AS A BEACON FOR CHANGE
"The most important things that Tun Mahathir brought about through the victory is this positiveness and aspiration for a freer Society"