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Asia Media International – A Publication from Loyola Marymount University's Asia Pacific Media Center in Los Angeles
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  • AMERICA WATCH: HOW MANY MORE WITCH HUNTS LIE AHEAD?

    ANDREA PLATE WRITES – Donald Trump may have cheapened the phrase “witch hunt,” but American history is rich and notorious with sad sagas of domestic persecution: the Salem Witch Trials of colonial Massachusetts, immortalized by playwright Arthur Miller in 1953’s “The Crucible;” the pursuit, persecution and internment of “enemy” Japanese…

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  • BOOK REVIEW: PAVANE FOR A DEAD PRINCESS (2014) BY PARK MIN-GYU – WHAT IT MEANS TO BE “UGLY” IN A WORLD MADE FOR THE BEAUTIFUL

    BOOK REVIEW EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ELLA KELLEHER WRITES – Beauty is a weapon. In South Korea, widely known as the plastic surgery capital of the world, one finds themselves needing to be armed to the teeth at all times. “Korea is a place where you can’t leave the house without makeup if…

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  • BOOK REVIEW: FAMILY ROOM (2010) BY LILY YULIANTI FARID — THE MANY FACES OF A FAMILY UNRAVELED

    GABY RUSLI WRITES (in an on-going series of reviews of Indonesian classics) — A grandfather who seeks to marry off his granddaughters to his wealthy friends for connections. A young, successful model who suffered the consequences of her early success. A Chinese-Indonesian family was left with the scars and traumas…

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  • BOOK REVIEW: TIME IS A MOTHER (2022) BY OCEAN VUONG – LEARNING TO LIVE WITH DEATH AND ONESELF

    ANGELINE KEK WRITES — Within Time is a Mother (2022), Ocean Vuong fashions a world so rich with polarities. No stone is left unturned. Vuong explores relationships in all their capacities: a person and their chosen loves, a person and society, and loving oneself. Following the successes of Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016) and On Earth…

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  • RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: NO ONE, CHINA INCLUDED, WANTS TO SEE THE UKRAINE WAR GOING NUCLEAR

    CLINICAL PROFESSOR TOM PLATE WRITES – Major participants in the Russia-Ukraine war, whether involved directly or by proxy, lack agreement about when and how it must end. These varying perspectives result in an unseemly policy scrum, adding more confusion to this humanitarian tragedy. This obscene war, despite the many ways…

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China Blog Blotter – Issue #4: Nudity is Not Porn…On the Internet

Ai Weiwei, the sensational Chinese artist who often criticizes China’s government, is in trouble again. Last time, he was detained for three months for “tax evasion.” This time, an artistic photo of him and four women, all nude, titled “One Tiger, Eight Breasts” is deemed pornography. The government is now…

Full Article China Blog Blotter – Issue #4: Nudity is Not Porn…On the Internet

PAKISTAN: Is It Military Vs Civilians– Or ‘The News’ Vs ‘The Dawn’

A widely publicized but supposedly secret memo appears to show the country’s civilian leaders all but begging Washington to protect them from a punitive military coup. The scandal is now being called “Memogate” in the press.

Full Article PAKISTAN: Is It Military Vs Civilians– Or ‘The News’ Vs ‘The Dawn’

SINGAPORE: Social Media Impacts Parliamentary General Elections

According to a recent panel, the Singaporean parliament’s General Elections this May were heavily influenced by the country’s proliferating use of social media.

Full Article SINGAPORE: Social Media Impacts Parliamentary General Elections

INDIA: Bollywood Horror-Film Ads Shocks a Catholic Organization

Upcoming Bollywood horror film “Kaun Hai Waha” has been spooked by an unanticipated reproach from the organization Catholic Secular Forum (CSF), which claims the film is filled with anti-Catholic imagery and symbols.

Full Article INDIA: Bollywood Horror-Film Ads Shocks a Catholic Organization

INDONESIA: Not So Greenpeace

Tensions between the international NGO Greenpeace and the government of Indonesia have continued to escalate in recent weeks over increasing deforestation practices across the country.

Full Article INDONESIA: Not So Greenpeace

SOUTH KOREA: Kim In-suk’s Expat Odyssey The Long Road is Now Available in English

Kim In-Suk’s award winning 1995 novel, The Long Road, is the lone work of Korean expatriate fiction that has been translated into English.

Full Article SOUTH KOREA: Kim In-suk’s Expat Odyssey The Long Road is Now Available in English

VIETNAM: ‘Reporters Without Borders’ Calling for Support of Blogger

“We request the immediate and unconditional release of de Nguyen Tien Trung. The accusations made against him are a total fabrication,” says the press freedom organization.

Full Article VIETNAM: ‘Reporters Without Borders’ Calling for Support of Blogger

THAILAND: Thai ‘Yes or No’ Will Open Gay Film Festival

The film “Yes or No” — Thailand’s first lesbian film — has been chosen to open the 22nd Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film festival in Hong Kong alongside the Vietnamese film “Lost in Paradise.”

Full Article THAILAND: Thai ‘Yes or No’ Will Open Gay Film Festival

CHINA: Confucius Institute Prospers as China Attempts to Change Foreign Misconceptions

The Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) has recently joined with seventeen other foreign universities to set up Confucius Institutes, non-profit institutions that promote Chinese language and culture internationally, in fourteen countries overseas.

Full Article CHINA: Confucius Institute Prospers as China Attempts to Change Foreign Misconceptions

NORTH KOREA: Communist Country’s Citizens Stranded Across the Middle East

North Korean citizens are stranded in the Middle East, specifically Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, and Kuwait. They are being prevented from returning home, for fear that they would spread news of the social unrest in the region throughout North Korea.

Full Article NORTH KOREA: Communist Country’s Citizens Stranded Across the Middle East

PHILIPPINES: Gunning for Journalists?

This past week marks the two-year anniversary of the massacre in the town of Ampatuan in northern Mindanao. Fifty-eight people were killed in the massacre, thirty-three of them, journalists.

Full Article PHILIPPINES: Gunning for Journalists?

Yi Gyeong-yun and Paintings in 17th century, Joseon Dynasty

Full Article Yi Gyeong-yun and Paintings in 17th century, Joseon Dynasty

Buddhists Paintings in the Hall of the Underworld

Full Article Buddhists Paintings in the Hall of the Underworld

INDIA: Vandana Shiva Video Interview

Dr. Vandana Shiva, author, physicist, philosopher, environmental activist and eco-feminist came to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on November 1, 2011 to receive the Navin and Pratima Doshi Bridgebuilder Award…

Full Article INDIA: Vandana Shiva Video Interview

AUSTRALIA: Down-Under Goes Over the Top Over Obama

Even before U.S. President Barack Obama’s Air Force One touched down in Australia this week the trip was causing quite the media frenzy. An article in the Herald Sun, one of the widest read newspapers in Australia, trumpeted the fact that Obama was to be welcomed with a jar of Marmite, a popular native breakfast spread…

Full Article AUSTRALIA: Down-Under Goes Over the Top Over Obama

THAILAND: Transfer of Censorship Powers to Police Criticized

The Ministry of Culture recently passed an amendment to the Printing Act of 2007 that makes the national police chief head of Thailand’s censorship board. The Bangkok Post, Thailand’s leading English-language daily newspaper, referred to this move as “a step backwards and aimed at empowering the government to take complete control of the media.”

Full Article THAILAND: Transfer of Censorship Powers to Police Criticized

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      • ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL is a student-driven publication of Loyola Marymount University’s Asia Media Center, under the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts,  Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies and the Dept. of Political Science — in alliance with the independent Pacific Century Institute, a non-profit 501(c) organization based in Los Angeles, California.

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Cristina Pedler ’22

Book Review Editor
Ella Kelleher ’21

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Liam Rogers ’21

AMI Video Anchor
Janelynne Galera

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Miles Whittingham

 

Contributing Writers
Candy Abe
Naser Almehsari
Hamad Alsebeih
Kamran Alishov
Benjamin Barrett
Haley Brewer
Cierra Byrd
Tristin Clint
Alec Farmer
Serena Gonzalez
Kiana Karimi
Rachel Kaufman
Angeline Kek
Aryana Khalilzadeh
Kezia Laksmono
Prestin McHugh
Ethan Patrick
Gaby Rusli
Jared Sivila
Marisa Torre
Bader Zainal

  • Asia Media International Committee of Advisors
    Gareth C.C. Chang
    Leta Hong Fincher
    Spencer H. Kim
    Professor Kal Raustiala
    Professor Jennifer Ramos
    Gregory F. Treverton
    Yeocheol Yoon
  • Emeritus Editors
    Zhi Jiao Danielle Goh
    Michelle Nguyen
    Senay Emmanuel
    Clementine Todorov
    Dhari Alduraibi
    Savannah Nunez
    Jay Seo
    Sabrina Verduzco
    Mary Grace Costa
    Jeremiah Fajardo
    Kelcey Lorenzo
    Lexi Tucker
    Aashna Malpani
    Yi Ning Wong
    Lani Luo
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    Andrea Plate

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      Lamiya Shabbir
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      Yawen Sun
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      LMU Clinical Professor Tom Plate,
      Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies

 

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