Each week on the Policy File we round up essential weekend policy reading from around the web. This week we look at the South China Sea, China's economic uncertainties, Myanmar's path to democracy and more.

Each week on the Policy File we round up some essential weekend policy reading from around the web.

Policy Forum provides a platform to analyse, discuss and debate the region’s public policy challenges, write Quentin Grafton and Tom Kompas, with Martyn Pearce, Gillian Lord, Tessia Deng, Kelly Hayward and Yanhong Ouyang.

Asia and the Pacific Policy Society members are located all around the region in a wide range of roles. As part of our series profiling the work of some of our members ‘Five minutes with…’,  Asia and the Pacific Policy Society member Chris Sampson talks about closing the digital divide in  developing and disadvantaged communities through his organisation, the Digital Society Foundation.

Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Fellow Sri Mulyani Indrawati has had a distinguished career in academia and policy-making. She tells Belinda Thompson about some of the challenges facing both of those worlds.

Asia and the Pacific Policy Society members are located all around the region in a wide range of roles. As part of our series profiling the work of some of our members ‘Five minutes with…’,  Asia and the Pacific Policy Society member Damian Facciolo talks about his work with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and the challenge of managing non-communicable and chronic diseases in the region.