Coffee in Jeju
Marc de Faoite
A coffee with a stranger opened up uncomfortable truths
& in
Rory Harris
Poetry from Rory Harris
Danish in Kabul
Andrew Quilty
Disillusioned with the jihad, Asad started a bookshop
Don’t forget us
Erfan Dana
A plea from a refugee in locked-down Indonesia
The silence of 1976
Emma Larkin
Forty-four years later, silence still shrouds the Thammasat student massacre in Bangkok
Made in Japan
Thomas A. Bass
Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is struggling with the clean up
Deoli Camp
Somak Ghoshal
A little known story of the internment of Indians of Chinese heritage
The coming anger
Richard Heydarian
Get ready for an anti-China backlash over coronavirus
Against Malaysian food
Alicia Izharuddin
Behind the delight of Malaysian food hides a history of exploitation and environmental destruction
Strait defiance
Michael Reilly
Why China’s heavy-handed denial of a separate Tawainese identity will fail
Isolated
Peter Guest
In Tokyo, it’s never clear whether you are in a lockdown or not
Rebel
David Parrish
How a teenager from Hong Kong came of political age
Coronavirus
Anthony Tao
Four poems by Anthony Tao
His history
Prumsodun Ok
Another Western account of Cambodian history fails to hit the mark
Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
This working life
Simon Vincent
A candid look at how hard Singaporeans work just to make ends meet
Family co.
Peter Tasker
How a Korean company beat the Japanese at their own game
Scholar and believer
Martin Stuart-Fox
How Thailand and Buddhism changed a scholar’s outlook on life
City of hope
Siti Keo
A new translation of a Cambodian novel brings its history to life
Lao lite
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotians may struggle to recognise themselves in Paul Yoon’s novel
Night-shift scenes*
Wong Yi
A short story by Wong Yi
Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
Spirit House (four)
Maw Shein Win
Poetry from Maw Shein Win
Rise and fall
Melody Kemp
The Mekong giveth and the Mekong taketh
On standby
Peter Yeoh
Covid-19 has put Jeremy Tiang’s play on Arthur Miller’s visit to China on ice
Carry across
Conner Bouchard-Roberts
Can we still travel in the age of climate change?
Jerryrigged machine
Tilde Acuña
Poetry from Tilde Acuña
Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Missing on stage
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Onward, Christian soldier
David Scott Mathieson
Despite their Christian zeal, these missionaries are effective in saving lives
New cause
Brian Chee-Shing Hioe
A kidnapping hasn’t deterred Lam Wing-kee from opening a new bookshop
Everywhere, forever
Robert Templer
Asia is addicted to plastic
City of light
Sebastian Strangio
Sihanoukville has long had a seamy underbelly
Weary
Lok Man Law
Hong Kong has opened the door to darkness
High and dry
Michael Buckley
The Mekong is not a tap
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Humanitarian breakdown
Benjamin Zawacki
How NGOs responded to Myanmar’s genocide
Spark to fire
Paul French
The history of mass protest in Hong Kong
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya