Word generation
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Romanising Cantonese in Hong Kong
Category: Art & Culture
Between two worlds
Michael Howard
Pham Duy Khiem embodied two cultures in conflict
One year on
Adeline Chua
Malaysia and the art of Charis Loke
Homing pigeon
Emily Ding
Chinatowns of the world, from Kolkata to Guatemala City
Longyi
Christian Gilberti
Myanmar’s ubiquitous garment of choice
Upstairs, downstairs
Mark Robinson
Books, age and beauty in west Tokyo
Missing in Adelaide
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia skips Asia
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
Culture shock
Pim Wangtechawat
Thailand’s problematic relationship with hip-hop
Robert Turnbull (1957–2018)
Aaron Carpene
Music was his passion and his legacy
Wall of sound
Cuong Pham
The multilingual, multicultural beats of Vietnamese musician Linh Ha
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
Champa gems
William B. Noseworthy
Finally, a book to showcase the best of Cham art
Rich experience
Pim Wangtechawat
Watching others enjoying Crazy Rich Asians was as enjoyable as watching the film itself
Nostalgia for Ayutthaya
Pim Wangtechawat
It has been fashionable for Thais to visit the old capital Ayutthaya
Remembering Channthy
Scott Bywater
The musician broke down musical and cultural barriers
King Krishen
Marina Tan
The legacy of Malaysia’s king of theatre
Tales from tomorrow
George Wright
Independent filmmakers are thriving in repressive Cambodia
Literary town
Kate Mayberry
A literary festival with a political message
Made in Hong Kong
Graham Earnshaw
How Bruce Lee made Hongkongers proud of their Chinese heritage
Kafka in Saigon
Connla Stokes
A bookshop in Ho Chi Minh City
Covering Up Violence
Pim Wangtechawat
The #DontTellMeHowDress exhibition challenges Thai attitudes to gender violence.
Street artistry
John Ramsden
Bùi Xuân Phái, perhaps the artist of his generation, struggled for acceptance and paint in Vietnam.
Remembering Jerry
James Newport
Rock ‘n’ roll biographer and raconteur Jerry Hopkins passes away, aged 82.
Teenage kicks
Pim Wangtechawat
TV drama Hormones captures the daunting complexities of being a Thai teenager
In states unborn
Theophilus Kwek
Southeast Asia’s febrile political environment is a fitting backdrop for a staging of Julius Caesar.
Hymn of hope
Rachel Hughes
A requiem for the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide
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.
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.
Drawing Charlie Chan
Calvin Godfrey
The genius behind Charlie Chan Hock Chye.
Riding the bamboo
Brent Crane
In the north-west of Cambodia, a foreigner finds his home.
Yellow music
Cuong Pham
Pre-’75 Saigon music is popular among young Vietnamese.