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Year in Asia: lessons learnt in commercial law in Jakarta
20 March 2019

Sophie Hewitt is a final-year Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Studies (Year in Asia) / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) student at The Australian National University (ANU) College of Asia and the Pacific. Sophie recently returned from Indonesia, where she completed the Year in Asia program with the support of a New Colombo Plan Scholarship. We asked Sophie to share her experiences interning at a law firm, and why this has been important as a prospective law graduate in Australia.

"Experiences that changed me": Three life lessons from the Year in Asia program
13 February 2018

Recent Year in Asia returnee Nanumi Starke reflects on the challenges and personal growth she experienced while studying at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo over the past year.

The invisible gallery
20 November 2015
An art-less exhibition in Tokyo captures the horror of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, finds NICHOLAS HORTON.
Going west
17 November 2015
LUCY MCFARLANE visits the fabled western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
The people met travelling
06 November 2015
One of the great benefits of travel is meeting interesting people, writes NICKY LOVEGROVE.
An afternoon with Wisdom and Insight
21 October 2015
NICHOLAS LOVEGROVE meets some remarkable nuns at the Fajing Monastery in Hangzhou, China.
If I could bring you to China
09 October 2015
LUCY MCFARLANE invites you to China’s glorious outdoors.
Tree bark salad
06 October 2015
A taste of Yunnan province.
Summertime in Tokyo
06 October 2015
As her semester abroad comes to an end, GABRIELLA ANDREWS basks in the Japanese summer.
‘Born and raised’ but forever ‘foreign’
18 September 2015
Following an incident on a Tokyo train, BEC PIESSE investigates how ethnicity is experienced in Japanese society.

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