Being Asian
Pim Wangtechawat
Crazy Rich Asians gets beyond the stereotypes
Gaijin
Peter Tasker
Ian Buruma comes of age in Japan’s warm, wet days of low-tech chaos
Claude Jacques
Aedeen Cremin
Claude Jacques leaves his quiet legacy on Khmer history
Coming out to dance
Erin Handley
Founder of Cambodia’s first all-gay dance troupe discovers freedom in limitation
A nation’s song
Beth Yahp
Bringing forgotten Malayan music back to vibrant life
Good old bad days
Michael L. Gray
How Hanoi’s cartoonists fought hardship with humour
Forgotten Naga
Rupert Winchester
On the trail of elusive hornbills and freedom fighters in India’s tense border zone
Eating amok
Robert Carmack
Defining Cambodian cuisine has its challenges.
Ibrahim Tahir
Peter Guest
Wardah Books lies at the historic heart of Malay Singapore
My Lai
Michael Uhl
Was it the scale of the killing or the cover-up that made the My Lai massacre a scandal?
Re-reading Greene
Mai Huyen Chi
The passive Vietnamese in ‘The Quiet American’.
The journalist
Gwen Robinson
The veteran Thai journalist Kavi Chongkittavorn on the state of regional media.
Cycle of vengeance
Kosal Path
Fear of revenge explains Cambodia’s season of political repression.
Poetry
Benjamin Bartu
Poetry from Benjamin Bartu.
Turning east
Sebastian Strangio
What explains Southeast Asia’s periodic lurch to authoritarianism?
Post-1997
David Parrish
Hong Kong’s post-handover generation takes on the political system
Disobedient women
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Intan Paramaditha subverts her country’s notions of womanhood.
The water people
Abby Seiff
Dams, climate change and overfishing are changing Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
Finding holiness
Fahmi Mustaffa
In search of the holy in Malaysia’s many faiths and cultures.
The prison poets
Joseph Woods
The story of the poets who survived Myanmar’s military regime
A lady of distinction
John F. Hartmann
Boonlua’s classic on the Thai aristocracy is a modern-day parable.
Bagan and beyond
Aedeen Cremin
How was Bagan built and how did it become a World Heritage Site?
Daydream believers
Mark Robinson
How young and ambitious Vietnamese find themselves working in Tokyo’s convenience stores.
Two years later
David Chandler
Poetry from David Chandler.
Line and content
Craig Thomas
The art of pushing political boundaries but never stepping over them in Vietnam.
Rock ’n’ roll damnation
Marco Ferrarese
Southeast Asian heavy metal rockers unmasked.
The homeless
Greg Constantine
For decades, the Rohingya have languished along the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf highway.
Letters
Michael G. Karnavas, J.D. Wright
Readers on Liam Kelley’s review of Ben Kiernan and Peera Songkünnatham’s review of Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon.
China calling
David Eimer
Can Aung San Suu Kyi resist China’s influence? The generals before her couldn’t
Facing the end
Jodie DeJonge
The inside account of the final days of the Cambodia Daily.
The blogger
John Fuller
Blogger Nguyen Chi Tuyen says he’s ready to sacrifice his life for freedom.
A broken state
Sean Gleeson
The recent violence against the Rohingya continues a systemic attempt to strip them of their right to exist in Myanmar.
What China wants
Peter Tasker
China is back in charge in Asia.
River politics
Andrew Wells-Dang
Can anything be done to stop the rush of hydroelectric dams being built on the Mekong?
Starfall
ko ko thett
Lynn Moe Swe, the celebrated poet from Monywa who passed away in September.
Reformasi, remembered
Kean Wong
Before the rise of conservative Islam in Malaysia, there was reformasi
The Tribunal
Alexander Hinton
Putting the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the dock.
Miserablism
Rupert Winchester
Modern-day India, where societal oppression is balanced by personal freedom
An earful
Peera Songkünnatham
How a poem about Yingluck Shinawatra’s ear shines a light on the patriarchal culture embedded in Thai folk tales.
Lost in translation
Liam Kelley
Ben Kiernan’s history of Vietnam gets lost in translation