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Philip Bowring

Co-founder and consulting editor of Asia Sentinel, former Editor in Chief, Far Eastern Economic Review, author of Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, other books, Journalist of the Year 2015, Society of Publishers in Asia.

 

Items by Philip Bowring

  • A French Court’s Bizarre Verdict Roils Southeast Asian Waters

    A French Court’s Bizarre Verdict Roils Southeast Asian Waters

    The recent decision by a French court to award the supposed heirs of the Sultan of Sulu a ludicrous sum of money in an arcane case stemming from long-disappeared colonial entities might well be considered a new form of neo-colonialism, or perhaps just a way of making national courts of…