Who is Duch?
Antonia D. Bryan
Duch ran a well-oiled machine. He processed people, personally approving every confession.
Category: Issue 5
The second Panglong trap
David Eimer
In Myanmar’s borderland conflict zones, promises of peace are wearily familiar
Attitude adjustment
Nic Dunlop
Thailand once had the freest press in Southeast Asia.
Facework
Emma Larkin
How power in Thailand really works
Poetry
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, Maung Philar, Khai Q Nguyen
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
The great leap
Peter Zinoman
Goscha’s Vietnam puts Vietnamese at the centre of their own history.
Agent Monsanto
Mick Grant
Fifty years after the spraying of Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Wild pigs cannot enter
Giulio Ongaro
The Akha people of Laos once maintained a condition of statelessness.
Ocean of history
John Burgess
A new study questions whether Australian Aborigines were isolated after their arrival 40,000 years ago.
Refugee pain
Rupert Winchester
The Refugee is bold, bright and beautiful.
Threadbare
Gill Green
Enthusiasts will appreciate Devare’s book, but not experts in the field
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations
Smuggling the bodacious
Hans van Leeuwen
We sit looking at the screen. “PM lauds communist youth” looks back at us
Khmer new wave
Stefanie Sellon
The golden age of Cambodian architecture
Sre Ambel
Jeff Kisseloff
For McCallum, it wasn’t enough just to write about the environment
Saving the garden
David Hutt
Dr Siri meets solemn and dogmatic cadres in Laos
It ain’t pho
Connla Stokes
My father’s improvised experiments with Vietnamese cuisine were declared a success
Guardian of Yangon
Poppy McPherson
Thant Myint-U writes “with an eye to what the past might say about the present”
Dancing with Perséphone
Larry Strange
Khmer dance was once seen as purely decorative
Waiting for the smoke to clear
Tillman Miller
Because time is a loose concept in Laos, sometimes an hour or two of dinner would pass before any stories recommenced.
Chat Tomuk
Mekong Review
The passing of Thailand’s revered king has unleashed a torrent of eulogies.