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October 2021

Beware of killers who blend in with caterpillars

Patiwat Saraiyaem

A poem from Patiwat Saraiyaem

October 2021

Bird business

Wayne McCallum

Bird watching in the Mekong

October 2021

flight path

Jonathan Chan

A poem from Jonathan Chan

October 2021

Greene on Tripadvisor

Connla Stokes

What Graham Greene ate in Vietnam

October 2021

Back to zero

Hsiuwen Liu

A small space for book lovers in Hong Kong

August 2021

Technology and terror

Robert Templer

How China uses surveillance technology to terrorise the Uyghurs

August 2021

Carrying on

Koey Lee

An interview with Hong Kong activist Nathan Law

August 2021

The Tatmadaw

Phil Thornton

Myanmar’s military has cruelty baked into its DNA

August 2021

Life of the party

Yuan Zhu

The forgotten lives of the Chinese Communist Party

August 2021

End of the line

Tom Baxter

Coal’s days in Asia are numbered

August 2021

Desecration

Rian Thum

China’s destruction of cultural sites in Xinjiang

August 2021

Four poems

Dipika Mukherjee

Four poems by Dipika Mukherjee

August 2021

The cursed generation

Jessie Lau

Memoirs of a lost Hong Kong

August 2021

Myanmar on edge

Thomas Kean

Six months of brutal junta rule

August 2021

Separation

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

The pandemic has widened the gap between Malaysia and Singapore

August 2021

Ground zero

Michael Reilly

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic

August 2021

Shutdown in Wuhan

James Weitz

Remembering the world’s first lockdown

August 2021

Save our skins

Hong Kong Nguyen

Race and beauty in Vietnam

August 2021

Home sweet hawker

Yishu Zhou

The taste of home

August 2021

Ghost labour

Marco Ferrarese

Malaysia’s unrecognised migrant workers

August 2021

Under the circumstance

Shih-Li Kow

A short story by Shih-Li Kow

August 2021

‘A letter to the prison—for Perhat Tursun’

Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan

Poetry from Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan

August 2021

So Cambodia

Patrick Allington

Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut

August 2021

Freedom for some

Sudipto Sanyal

Freedom is still an ideal for many

August 2021

The missing half

Peter Zinoman

The forgotten stories from Vietnam’s south

August 2021

In your face

James Yu

Thai expat literature is littered with bad behaviour

August 2021

The Ogura hundred

Michael Freeman

A new translation of Japan’s seminal poetry collection

August 2021

Potato eater

Tse Wei

A Singaporean banquet

August 2021

My home canal

Anjan Sundaram

The sounds and smells of Phnom Penh

August 2021

Coming through

Louis Raymond

A profile of Franco-Vietnamese artist Bao Vuong

August 2021

Tokyo diners

Mark Robinson

Three dining tales from Tokyo

August 2021

In transit

Farah Abdessamad

When Cambodia opened up

August 2021

Ways of writing

Emily Ding

The trouble with travel writing

August 2021

‘Sometimes’

Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed

Poetry by Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed

August 2021

A local icon

Marc de Faoite

A towel for all times

August 2021

Marking time

Sean Chadwell

A bookshop waits for its customers

May 2021

China at large

Bryony Lau

How to live with a powerful neighbour

May 2021

A realist’s lament

Michael Reilly

For China and Australia, a question of values

May 2021

K Za Win

Poetry by the late K Za Win

May 2021

Leaving Myanmar

Ben Dunant

As things fall apart, a foreign journalist is forced to pack his bags

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