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A new research project studying the evolution of Singapore’s business networks in the early 1900s examines the wider implications on socio-economic networks and trade links Singapore had within Southeast Asia and with China.

If unpaid labour (along with lowly paid waste work) is key to sustaining a circular economy, then questions need to be asked about how we can close the circularity loop without exploiting or taking this uncompensated labour for granted.

Singapore's Waterloo Street, where two of the country’s most historic religious sites are located, serves as more than just a religious resource for visitors, but as an enclave for those who feel ‘out of place’ elsewhere, allowing many to obtain some measure of meaning, comfort, and hope.

On December 31, 2024, another era came to a close with Dr Céline Coderey departing ARI after eleven years! Céline first joined ARI in January 2014 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the STS Cluster where she was working on a research project about the medical system in contemporary Myanmar.

What makes a good retirement? Shiori Shakuto has been researching the lives of “silver backpackers”: Japanese seniors who embark on a later-life journey of self-discovery.

How would our understanding of the global 'sovereignty-intervention' debate change if we were to reveal competing definitions of these concepts at different times, and in different places?

Land reclamation is a long-term process. While land is reclaimed, fishers have to accept relocations, and even the negative effects of land reclamation on their livelihoods because they know that it is inevitable. Yet, they are willing to actively contribute to the planning of fishing facilities based on their extensive knowledge of the land-sea interface. So far, however, their requests have been ignored. The fishers of Jelutong are still waiting for a proper jetty promised two decades ago.

Dr Sumit Mandal is the new steward of the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies. In this Q&A, Dr Mandal discusses his ongoing interest in developing a language to speak about intermixing, interconnectedness, and diversity and how his interests inform the research activities into Arabia-Asia connections for the Professorship.

As urbanisation and global populations grow, sand has become a crucial resource for land reclamation and protecting urban properties. How should we think of sand in an age of sinking cities and climate change?

The rapid expansion of digital technologies and social media platforms has radically transformed the ways migration is experienced. How has the changing digital space affected Vietnamese migrant movements to Australia?

We all want to know what we are eating but can consumers really trust the process? As observations of Alternative Food Networks (AFN) in China show, the quest to know what happens in the food supply chain is not as simple as it looks.

Inter-regional soldiering ties and transnational mobility link Nepal to Southeast Asia. For former Gurkhas, their transition to entrepreneurship in the highlands of the Himalayas underscores the vital link between transnational soldiering, local tourism, and the socio-economic transformation of the village community.