Two Singapore have written a book that argues against the way the Singapore Government provides housing and social support, and questions how it has dealt with values such as meritocracy and identity… AsiaOne Online, 24 April 2014

BJP only released its manifesto on April 7, when parts of the northeast went to polls, is a good indicator of how much priority Indian political parties give to their programmes… The Economic Times Online, 17 April 2014

Indonesia’s recently concluded parliamentary election has failed to produce an outright winner. Will the result make life more difficult for PDIP’s Joko Widodo in his bid to become Indonesia’s next President?… Insight, Channel NewsAsia, 17 April 2014

The interview focused on the rise of Asia/China in the current “multipolar” world system, the idea of “many Asias” as a network-style community, and the importance of civil society and ASEAN and TPP (rather than APEC)… JoongAng Sunday, 13 April 2014

While Narendra Modi seems to be grabbing most of the attention in the run up to the elections, fundamental changes within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are getting less noticed… DNA India, 10 April 2014

More Singaporeans who are single, widowed or divorced are living alone. The proportion of one-person resident households has doubled from 4.6% of all households in 1992 to 9.5% in 2012…. The Star Online, 3 March 2014

ARI Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Dr Huang Yinghong of Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-Sen University said he and a team of academics would translate and publish Gandhi’s works in China. Over 80 of the leader’s speeches will also be translated. China BBC News Online, 1 February 2014

When Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal staged a dharna a few metres away from Parliament House boldly declared that he considered himself an “anarchist”, was he making an ill-considered remark or was it a well-thought-out response? If it was the latter he should reconsider whether he wants to be in government and in the chief minister’s chair…

At a time when the deep, extensive, long-existing but latent relationships between Arabia and Asia are undergoing a resurgence due to the changing geopolitics of the world, the newly launched Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies at NUS will spur much-needed scholarship and offer important insights into the linkages between Arabia and Asia. NUS News, 6

A $3 million donation from a businessman from Saudi Arabia will see the National University of Singapore (NUS) promote research into the Arabian peninsula and its links to the rest of Asia. AsiaOne online, 6 January 2014  more media coverage The Straits Times,  4 January 2014, pB16 The Business Times, 4 January 2014, p15 The