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DPA Youtube channel is now monetized!
Yay! DPA is finally monetized on Youtube!!! Hopefully this will herald a new era of DPA and our development towards a full-fledged media outlet! Thank you everyone for your support, by watching, subscribing and liking our videos the past 3-4 weeks! We are extremely grateful, and will continue to do our best to stay neutral…
Read MoreDPA Insiders : first patreon EXCLUSIVE video, and plans for DPA moving forward
In case you do not watch the full video, DPA has relaunched our Patreon and we just posted our first ever DPA Insiders / Patron exclusive video titled “Foreign Legion is a scam…“ Moving forward, we have plans to do podcast, inviting Patrons (Insiders) to participate as guest on the podcast, where we can talk…
Read MoreDPA youtube now have a custom URL: youtube.com/defensepoliticsasia
Thanks to all your support on our Youtube channel, we have past 200 subscribers today – as a result, we were given the permission by Youtube to have a custom URL for our youtube channel. You can now find the #DPA Youtube Channel on http://youtube.com/defensepoliticsasia !!! This is all possible only because of your support. Please continue to share,…
Read MoreMyanmar correspondent
DPA is currently looking for someone who can cover what is happening over in Myanmar. Interested candidate should be proficient in English, as all the articles we are publishing would be in English; but should be natural Burmese speaker as we would expect the candidate to be able to read and translate articles/news/press releases that…
Read MoreYou can now advertise directly with DPA
After a “meh” trial to use Google Adwords as a mean of getting advertising income, we concluded that it’s rather massive waste of time to use Adwords. Not to mention how Google Adwords destroys the UIUX (user interface/user experience) of DPA. As such, we have decided to launch our own advertising solution, which will allow…
Read MoreBecome a writer / contributor to DPA
We have just added a form on the home page, as well as on the Editor’s Notes page that will allow anyone to submit their articles to be published on DPA. ( alternatively, you can simply just contact us directly at admin@defensepoliticsasia.com ) Of course, as usual for any website, we will need to vet…
Read MoreUpdated Homepage Layout
Around 2-3 weeks ago, we decided to put some of our pretty instagram “quotes” images as part of a good “gateway” to read some of what we think are important news/articles. Today, we decided to swap out our rather messy layout of the news via the categories, into a combined “pinterest” style masonry layout –…
Read MoreConserving resources
We had been covering Myanmar on almost a daily basis on our focus page, for past 2 weeks. However, despite the best effort to simplify the backend process as much as possible – it still takes a good 2 hours or more just to update the incident map on a daily basis. As such, it…
Read MoreAdvertising with DPA
As with any media outlet, advertising as an avenue for revenue cannot be avoided. And as we have just restarted our Patreon, we do not have any income/revenue to cover our overhead. As such, we have registered with Google Adsense and had displayed Google advertisements across the website. We understand it might be some bit…
Read MoreRevamping DPA
Defense Politics Asia (DPA) started out in November 2017 as a community funded think tank, headquartered in Singapore, dedicated to provide vital insights into military, geopolitics, internal politics and economic developments in Asia and around the world, from an Asian perspective. After our co-founding Chief-Editor, Timothy Soh decided to go separate ways in late January…
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