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April 6, 2015

Student Lessons of Liberty in Nepal

The following story was contributed by Riya Basnet: Nisha Niraula and I recently visited schools in Nepal to find blind students for our braille book distribution. Through this project we developed a way of teaching children about their individuality by portraying simple…

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March 16, 2015

THE BALINESE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

The following article was submitted by Jack Blaylock, from Bali, Indonesia. To learn more about the World Conference on Market Liberalization in Bali, click here. Many years ago I saw my first traffic accident in Bali. As a witness to…

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January 13, 2015

Liberty in the Philippines

Nonoy Oplas is an economist in the Philippines, and the President of Minimal Government Thinkers Inc. Over the past five years, he has established network and alliances with other free market-oriented think tanks in Asia and other parts of the…

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November 18, 2014

Nepal: Launching an initiative in Women's Empowerment through Liberty

With the success of our first national workshop “Women Empowerment Starts with Liberty for Women,” we decided to leave the seminar hall and take the event directly to those in need. I come from a small community in the eastern…

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September 6, 2014

How we organised a conference in China to talk about FREEDOM!

As he mobilised China with the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao did not want to create just a new political or economic system. He wanted to create a new mindset entirely. To realise these goals, both the freedom of speech and…

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August 14, 2014

The People’s Republic of China Goes Austrian?

What does an average guy from the West like myself know about China? Tian'anmen Square, the Great Firewall, communism, and collectivism. One can still find remnants of these generalizations in Chinese society today, even after the free-market reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. However, there…

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August 5, 2014

Why You Should Not Visit North Korea

Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit North Korea every year, making it quite a popular tourist spot. Guided tours can cost from $1,000 to $4,000 dollars, depending on the length of stay, and more people are paying this cost in…

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June 30, 2014

Mobile Apps Bringing a Taste of the Free Market to China

When Uber launched in Beijing, my first thought was that they were going to have a really hard time in China. However, this was not because I expected there to be protests from taxi drivers like in London or threats…

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June 6, 2014

Reflections on Kazakhstan: Ideas and Performance

I’ve traveled a lot, but never to such an exotic destination as Kazakhstan. The country and the people are a mix of everything Asia—Russian, Mongolian, Turkish, Indian, modern, prosperous, intellectual, traditional, proud, friendly, and aware. I landed on the vast…

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May 31, 2014

Children's musical production of Jonathan Gullible in Kazakhstan

ISIL funds supported the making CD's for the children's musical production of stories from The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible. Lyudmila Людмила Мельникова and Pavel Koktyshev have accomplished a magnificent success in Kazakhstan. Along with the internet distribution, these CD's are going to schools throughout…

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Asia Civil Liberties International Relations

May 16, 2014

Uzbekistan: How I broke 3 laws in less than 24 hours

On the 27th of April my friend and I got on a bus in Bishkek to take us to Chymkent (a city in Kazakhstan, 10 min of drive from the Kazakh and Uzbek border) It was late in the evening…

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April 10, 2014

Austrian Economics and Social Media in China

In many places around the world we hear about the use of social media and mobile apps to help people communicate with each other in opposition to the state or against mainstream standards. From Egypt to Venezuela, social media has…

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March 21, 2014

The Battle for Self-Ownership in Medical Care

See more videos from the Lausanne Conference This is a transcription of the Alphonse Crespo's talk at the ISIL 2013 World Conference. Transcription edited by Kenli S. Before I start, I just want to tell you how I enjoyed listening…

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March 10, 2014

Japan and the Free Market

This week ISIL President Ken Schoolland joined a discussion—alongside Sean Matsumoto of Japan’s Happy Science Academy—hosted by Think Tech Hawaii about education in Japan. You can skip to 29m 27s for this part of the discussion. Government control of education…

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March 2, 2014

Singapore: A Case of Libertarian Orientalism?

See more videos from the Lausanne Conference This is a transcription of Rainer Heufer's talk at the ISIL 2013 World Conference.Transcription edited by Kenli S. Good morning, it’s very nice to be here, I was not able to be here…

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February 9, 2014

India Property Rights Project: Empowering Hundreds of Thousands of Farmers

A property rights revolution is taking root in Gujarat, India, that is spreading across rural India, securing land title for hundreds of thousands of farmers. The evidence of success is so strong that this movement is expected to spread to…

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