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CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI Jinping and I have a common understanding: we believe that the internet has become the Chinese...

‘WHEN YOU DON’T like whoever is in charge, you can vote them out. Right?’ It’s two in the morning, and...

By André Dao

TAKE A BANGKOKIAN. Let’s called him Somchai. He’s in his mid-thirties and is of (typical) Thai–Chinese ethnicity.Somchai grew up...

By Voranai Vanijaka

Winner, 2016 Walkley Young Journalist of the Year Awards – Student Journalist of the Year categoryTHERE WERE MANY things...

By Jarni Blakkarly

I KNOW EXACTLY how you feel. I see you at the brekkie table, reading a newspaper. You – a...

By Miguel Syjuco

‘LET BYGONES BE bygones!’ Mum and Dad said to me, speaking over each other. Their faces shared their determination...

By Prodita Sabarini

I HAND MY passport and boarding pass to the officer at Brisbane International Airport and she notices I’m heading...

By Sally McLaren

I MEET TONY Pickard on the side of the highway at the X Line Road turn-off. He’s a grazier...

By Cameron Muir

KASHMIR’S STORY IS, for me, a personal history of unresolved pain and grief. Once called a paradise on earth,...

By Majid Maqbool

WHEN I RECEIVED the link to a blog post by someone preaching that Muslims should not use contraception, of...

By Dewi Anggraeni

THE FIRST RIDE-ON mower my parents bought was always breaking down. This seems an incidental fact, but really it...

By Jessie Cole

ONE OF THE first things you notice at a Chinese wedding reception is the Chinese character for ‘double happiness’....

By Michelle Law