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
Don’t be afraid
Theophilus Kwek
Summoning terror in two new novels from Singapore
From sea to mulberry fields
Son Nam
Translated fiction from southern Vietnam
Southern Son
Anthony Morreale
The voice of the Mekong Delta
Death and life
Mark Robinson
Death and life in a Tokyo neighbourhood
Splice unbound
Peter Guest
The future of Asia’s newsrooms
Dark snaps
Nic Dunlop
Having fun on the Death Railway
The lost city
Aedeen Cremin
France’s enduring love affair with Angkor
Painting by subtraction
James Jennings
The evolution and appeal of Vietnamese lacquer paintings
Wandering souls
Joseph Mai
Rithy Panh buries the ghosts of the Killing Fields
The compulsive reader
Kate Mayberry
A quirky bookstore in downtown Kuala Lumpur
Tsunami, Family photoshoot & Spooky action at a distance
Maung Day
Poetry from Maung Day
Notes on a scandal
Clare Rewcastle
How Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal was exposed to the world
Like mother, like daughter
Nic Dunlop
How Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother played a pivotal role in her political upbringing
Hot water
Bill Hayton
It should be obvious by now what China wants in the South China Sea
Bao Ninh’s wars
John Fuller
An interview with the author of The Sorrow of War
Street spirit
Abby Seiff
Political protests, once common in Phnom Penh, have all but disappeared
Facing justice
James Jennings
Has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been a waste of time and money?