The Xi Ma meeting: Implications for regional security
President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic China and President Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China in Taiwan conducted a historic meeting in Singapore on November… Read More
2015
Griffith-Hanban partnership on the Tourism Confucius Institute renewed
Griffith Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor and Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) Professor Sarah Todd recently visited Hanban Headquarters in Beijing and met with Mr Wang Yongli, Deputy… Read More
The theatre of authoritarian elections: why Myanmar is going to the polls
On Sunday, Myanmar will conduct general elections for its regional and state assemblies, and the lower and upper houses of the national parliament. This marks… Read More
Reflections of six weeks of fieldwork in Cambodia
Lucy West, a PhD candidate and 2015 recipient of the GAI Conference and Travel Grant for HDR students, recently returned from 6 weeks fieldwork in… Read More
China’s one child policy lifted
In China, couples have been limited to one child for more than thirty years due to the country’s legislation. Recently, China’s communist party lifted that… Read More
8th international Asia Pacific Writers and Translators’ conference
APWT – ‘A Profoundly Important Organization’ Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, a regional literary network started a decade ago at the Griffith Asia Institute, recently… Read More
Restless Continent: Wealth, Rivalry and Asia’s New Geopolitics public lecture
At a public lecture held at Griffith’s Queensland College of Art on 28 October, 2015, Professor Michael Wesley, Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia… Read More
3rd annual Global Risk Forum – One health summit
Reflections of the forum from Esther Achieng Onyango, PhD Candidate, School of Environment, Centre for Environment and Population Health. Esther is working on research under the direction of … Read More
South Pacific Studies Group seminar on PNG and Australia
Sean Dorney, Former Pacific Correspondent, ABC/Australia Network discussed why he believes Australia needs to pay more attention to its former colony during his ‘PNG and… Read More
From ‘debt and deficit’ to ‘building prosperity’: What’s needed to shift the economic narrative
So, new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants to have a “conversation” with the Australian people and “explain” policies in a way that respects… Read More
