Nissan’s Emperor
Peter Tasker
Before Carlos Ghosn there was Ichiro Shioji
Right history
Alexander Wells
A free-market fairy tale for the faithful
Shut out
Jared Ferrie
The Rohingya in limbo in Cox’s Bazar
Don’t die another person’s death, The definition of summer, Saigon on a good day
Phan Nhien Hao
Poetry from Phan Nhien Hao
Chasing thieves
Victor T King
The heist of the century
Good times are coming
Rohit Inani
India’s fragile young demography is waiting
Baloney
Michael Buckley
Bogus health claims are pushing species to the brink
The deportees
Matt Surrusco
Strangers in their new home
Homage
Nick Freeman
Honouring Professor Martin Stuart-Fox
Palm diary
Robert Cooper
A manuscript from a place no one knew existed
Meandering
Melinda Jane — The Poet Mj
Poetry from Melinda Jane — The Poet Mj
A river’s end
Milton Osborne
Is the Mekong in its last chapter?
Java tale
Jennifer Lindsay
An eminent historian turns to fiction
Cycles
Rupert Winchester
Two new crime novels revel in violence
The Koro Report
Faisal Tehrani
The dictator with a peculiar condition
Phuong 19
Connla Stokes
Thriving on pastiche
After the quake
Tom Vater
Kathmandu is booming, but the scars remain
Slum hip-hop
Pim Wangtechawat
Bangkok’s growing community of aspiring rappers
Frontal history
Stephen Teo
Covering three decades of the Chinese film industry
Home and water
Geoff Levitus
What connects the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial
In the POST
Kate Walton
Jakarta’s unplanned bookshop and publishing house
A writer’s gift
Anjan Sundaram
V.S. Naipaul’s complex legacy
Submission
Sean Gleeson
Information and power in a cloistered Myanmar
The second coming
Marc de Faoite
What the return of Mahathir means for Malaysia
Back to power
Eddin Khoo
An interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
Down and alone
Will Nguyen
An American protester in Ho Chi Minh City
A hero of our time
Richard Heydarian
Duterte increasingly looks like a spent force
Royal mess
David Chandler
Rethinking Cambodia’s golden age
More anarchy
David Eimer
The decline of Western influence in an age of acronyms
What’s in a name?
Laetitia van den Assum
Ethnicity, terminology and identity in Rakhine State
Salt-cured limes
Clarity Lim
Poetry from Clarity Lim
Capitalist outposts
David Scott Mathieson
Fear and loathing on the Thai border
Tea empire
Milton Osborne
How tea fuelled Western colonial endeavour
Veisse Pharmacy & Brave Girl Street
Richard Milazzo
Poetry from Richard Milazzo
Emerging power
Endy M. Bayuni
Wresting control of Indonesia’s natural resources
Reality bites
Michael Tatarski
Market movers and shakers in Vietnam
Realm of paradise
Kim Cheng Boey
Hungry ghosts and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Emergency lives
Zhou Hau Liew
The broken lives of the Malayan Emergency
Karen rebel
Catriona Knapman
The beauty queen who became a rebel
Bride hunters
Leslie Barnes
Vietnamese women who marry Taiwanese men