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Podcast: Author M R Narayan Swamy on Sri Lanka’s now-vanquished militant group Tamil Tigers

Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and the entire rebel leadership were killed on May 18, 2009 by Sri Lankan government troops.

Podcast: Myanmar’s military will not fall in 2025

In this episode, Ravi speaks with Pichai Chuensuksawadi, former group editor of Bangkok Post and keen Myanmar watcher, on the deteriorating situation in Myanmar.

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Podcast: The new AI stands for Asean and India

In this episode, Ravi Velloor (left) speaks with James Cheo (right), chief investment officer for Asean and India with HSBC Group Private Banking, on the glowing economic prospects for Asean and India amid weakening growth in the ageing countries of North-east Asia.

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Podcast: What next after Japan's political earthquake?

Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), bows to LDP lawmakers onstage after a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on October 28, 2024. Ishiba said on October 28 he will stay in office despite his party losing its majority, saying he would not create a "political vacuum".

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Podcast: Kamala Harris and Indo-Americans’ stunning rise in US national life

A man holds a placard with the photo of U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as another distributes sweets during the celebration on the day of her inauguration, in the village of Thulasendrapuram, where Harris' maternal grandfather was born and grew up, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, India, January 20, 2021.

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Podcast: ‘Judo, botox and yoga’ – what’s Putin up to in Asia?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently seen looking at the Pungsan dogs, a local breed, when the latter visited.

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Podcast: Could China, India go to war again?

In this episode, Ravi speaks with the eminent foreign policy thinker C Raja Mohan, the noted scholar and close friend of India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

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Podcast: Singapore’s stakes in India’s election - Will polls bring a surprise?

In this episode, ST's Ravi Velloor (right) speaks with political scientist Associate Professor Iqbal Singh Sevea (left), director of the Institute of South Asian Studies, a think-tank under the National University of Singapore.

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Podcast: Saving the Shompen tribe – when survival collides with strategy

In this episode, Ravi Velloor (right) speaks with Prof Visvajit Pandya (left), an anthropologist who has researched tribes in the Andaman and Nicobar islands for four decades.

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Podcast: Will US interest in Asia hold if Trump returns?

In this episode, Ravi Velloor (left) hosts former South Korean foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha (right), incoming President and CEO of Asia Society.

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