Episodes

  • ‘Anti-woke’ movement recruits teen boys across Asia

    ‘Anti-woke’ movement recruits teen boys across Asia
    Jul 22 2024
    More Asian internet users are influenced by far-right causes including white supremacism in the digital age. Listen to Post reporter Kimberly Lim explain more about the ‘anti-woke’ movement’s slow creep in the region, while experts Munira Mustaffa, Jo Krishnakumar and Rizky Rahadianto provide context on how the internet has become so divisive. Read more: https://sc.mp/h43aw
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    18 mins
  • Anwar Ibrahim on navigating Malaysia through China-US tensions

    Anwar Ibrahim on navigating Malaysia through China-US tensions
    Jun 17 2024
    How does a country deepen its relationship and do business with China without risking retaliation by the US and its allies? How can a nation protect its territorial claims in the South China Sea yet maintain a delicate balancing act with its neighbours with their own views and claims? Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim discusses these issues and more, including his deep anguish over the Israel-Gaza war, in this extended version of Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo.
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    28 mins
  • Why Japan’s Harajuku is enjoying a surprising fashion revival

    Why Japan’s Harajuku is enjoying a surprising fashion revival
    May 27 2024
    Harajuku, a neighbourhood in the Japanese capital Tokyo, has long been known as the birthplace of some incredibly colourful and unique fashion subcultures. The district had gone relatively quiet for years, but now one of its best-known styles called decora is staging a surprise comeback. In this episode of About Asia, we chart the rise, fall and rebirth of Harajuku’s fashion scene. Read more: https://sc.mp/cdeb24
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    20 mins
  • Unravelling China and India’s roles in the US fentanyl crisis

    Unravelling China and India’s roles in the US fentanyl crisis
    Apr 12 2024
    The US has been grappling with an opioid crisis for decades, but the problem has been exacerbated by the arrival of fentanyl – a synthetic drug 50 times more potent than heroin. What roles do China and India play in the global illicit fentanyl trade? Post correspondent Khushboo Razdan and independent investigative journalist Ben Westhoff walk us through their reporting. For more on this: https://sc.mp/8c9626
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    20 mins
  • Will Japan give Oppenheimer a chance?

    Will Japan give Oppenheimer a chance?
    Mar 26 2024
    Oppenheimer will finally make its Japan premier on March 29, 2024, eight months after the film’s world debut. How will the only country to suffer wartime atomic bombings react to a biopic about the American physicist who led efforts to build the first such weapons of mass destruction? Yuki Miyamoto, a nuclear ethics professor at DePaul University who has seen Oppenheimer three times, discusses her reservations about the film. Read more: https://sc.mp/92s0
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    28 mins
  • Why India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is so controversial

    Why India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is so controversial
    Mar 20 2024
    Protests continue in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which many say is a Hindu nationalist campaign targeting Muslims, spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Post spoke with independent journalist Angad Singh for more. Read more on this: https://sc.mp/5396d3
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    27 mins
  • Why Japan’s yakuza crime groups are on the verge of disappearing

    Why Japan’s yakuza crime groups are on the verge of disappearing
    Mar 15 2024
    The yakuza are seeing a pop cultural renaissance with hit TV shows like Tokyo Vice and video games such as Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. In reality, however, the Japanese organised crime groups are in serious decline. But do their shrinking numbers tell the whole story? To learn more, the Post’s Jonathan Vit spoke with Dr Martina Baradel, a criminologist at the University of Oxford. Read more on this: https://sc.mp/r6law
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    28 mins
  • Inside China: What if Trump wins?

    Inside China: What if Trump wins?
    Mar 5 2024
    How might a second Trump presidency affect US relations with China, North Korea, Japan, Asean, India and more? Post US bureau chief Robert Delaney compares and analyses the foreign policies of incumbent President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump and explores whether Beijing prefers one over the other. Read the latest on the US presidential 2024 elections: https://sc.mp/0d0073
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    37 mins