Too late
Robert Templer
A letter from a ruined planet
Category: Issue 15
The affair
Cyril Wong
Poetry from Cyril Wong
Sons of empire
Kam Raslan
Raffles, Farquhar and Singapore’s bicentennial
The great survivor
Nayan Chanda
The nine lives of Heng Samrin
Artificial power
Geoffrey Cain
Has our relationship with technology reached a turning point?
Inside China’s dream
Rhys Griffiths
An interview with exiled Chinese novelist Ma Jian
Facing Anwar
Bernice Chauly
Confronting Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting
After the plantations
Carl Vadivella Belle
The political history of Malaysian Indians
Striking resistance
Joe Buckley
Garment workers and labour organisation in Vietnam
Red noise
Chris Baker
Sound and division in Thailand
Ceasefire capitalism
Ko Ko Thett
Where to now for a “transformed” Myanmar?
Dam fever
Tom Fawthrop
The myth of sustainable hydropower
Hell down under
Allan Patience
An indictment of Australia’s cruelty to asylum seekers
It’s coup time
Julio A. Jeldres
The role of the US in the 1970 coup in Cambodia
No easy way out
Tyrell Haberkorn
Examining public and private violence in Thailand
Many parts
Rupert Winchester
Prabda Yoon shifts his absurdist lens to the body
Shameful histories
Clarissa Oon
Jing-Jing Lee’s novel about Singaporean comfort women
Triptych
Patrick Allington
Fiction from Sreedhevi Iyer, Tiffany Tsao and Intan Paramaditha
Paradiso
Richard Oh
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s much-anticipated debut collection
Bard from Bunyah
Michael Freeman
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)
Xanadu
David Chandler
Poetry from David Chandler
Useless
Preeta Samarasan
A new short story from the author of Evening Is the Whole Day
Storm Bernie
Thomas Beller
Remembering the founder of the Cambodia Daily
shapes
Rory Harris
Poetry from Rory Harris
Street opera
Emma Larkin
The past is ever-present in Bangkok’s neighbourhoods
Paper tiger
Peter Guest
Tammy Tam, editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post
Jack of all fruit
Marc de Faoite
What to do with an unripe jackfruit
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