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On 7 July at 5PM SEA Junction will launch a new series on street food and its many dimensions in Southeast Asia entitled “Beyond Food”. The series, highlighting how street food vending is linked to other urban dimensions such as use and design of public spaces, urban safety, urban formal economy, right to the city, etc., has been shaped in collaboration with Jorge Carrillo-Rodriguez (http://www.facebook.com/beyondfood.bkk), a former officer with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the…

Khlong Toey (meaning pandanous tree canal) is an urban district in Bangkok expressing the city profound socio-economic divides. Right in the heart of the capital and close to the main port, Khlong Toey hosts the city’s largest low-income community of about 100,000 people. Born in the 1950s on land owned by the Port Authority of Thailand out of a squatter settlement of migrant from the North and the North East of Thailand, it continues to expand as the need for…

Khlong Toey (meaning pandanous tree canal) is an urban district in Bangkok expressing the city profound socio-economic divides. Right in the heart of the capital and close to the main port, Khlong Toey hosts the city’s largest low-income community of about 100,000 people. Born in the 1950s on land owned by the Port Authority of Thailand out of a squatter settlement of migrant from the North and the North East of Thailand, it continues to expand as the need for…

From behind the walls of Burma's prison to the 1988 uprising and to border towns and communities of displaced ethnic groups, this new book revisits many of the stops in this Southeast Asian country's more recent history. What does Burma's past tell us about its future in its bumpy road of political transition? On 11 July 2018 Reporting ASEAN in collaboration with SEA Junction will reflect on the above issues with a discussion of the recently published book “The Cell,…

Thailand has achieved Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since 2002 with the “30 Baht Scheme” financed from taxation. This is a monumental achievement in public health and a big step in advancing towards a more equitable society by reducing catastrophic expenses that disproportionately affect the poor. Based on an independent assessment of the first 10 years of the 30 Baht scheme, empirical evidence suggests a pro-poor outcome. Impoverishment as measured by the additional number of non-poor households falling below poverty line…

“Lima” (“Five”) is an innovative Indonesian film that has been released on 31 May 2018 to reflect on Pancasila (national ideology) Day. Differently from other films on the same topic, Lima refrains from being propagandistic and instead probes the depth of the five principles of Pancasila, questioning what it really means to be a tolerant, pluralist, just, consultative and inclusive society. These reflections, articulated through the capturing story of a modern-day family in Jakarta, have made it into a great…

GET A BOOK, SUPPORT SEA JUNCTION! Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book fair focusing on Southeast Asia. Three kinds of books are displayed: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm Books from Thailand, ISEAS from Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia. New and used books that are double to those of SEA Junction’s Library. They include books in Thai, English and Indonesian on various…

In this solidarity event to be held at SEA Junction on 5 Augustus at 6.30PM, APWLD invites members, partners, and allies to a viewing of three short documentaries from the 2013-2015 climate justice themed feminist participatory action research (CJ-FPAR) projects in Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines. In particular, the three documentaries focus on the following: “Women of the Lagoon: Confronting Climate Change in Coastal Vietnam” (Center for Sustainable Rural Development): The story of the impacts of climate change in communities…