This piece is co-published with AcademiaSG, a scholarly site promoting scholarship of/by/for Singapore. Singapore’s public housing program is sui generis, un-replicable in its entirety anywhere.

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Myanmar has two national-level matriculation examinations now: one administered by the Ministry of Education under the State Administration Council (SAC) military junta, the other conducted by the ...

Sa Phan (pseudonym) is currently seeking an MA in International Education and Development at the University of Sussex. He also holds a Public Policy Master from Chiang Mai University. He is interested ...

Chua Beng Huat is Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology and Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Visiting Fellow, Social of Social ...

Abdullah Faqih earned a BA in Sociology from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, with his final thesis focusing on transman Muslims in Indonesia. He has gained experience working in notable research ...

New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...

Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, ...

Sana Jaffrey is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and previously led the implementation of the ...

Yen Tzu-Chien is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. An eccentric—and violent—Islamic preacher has been catapulted to fame in ...

Clive Kessler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Islam and Politics in a Malay State: Kelantan 1838-1969 (Cornell U.P ...

Angie Ngọc Trần is Professor of political economy at the California State University Monterey Bay. Her research focuses on labor movements and resistance in Vietnam and transnational migration ...