No shame
Nadi Hlaing
Violence against women in Myanmar’s military
Category: Notebook
Covering a coup
Phil Thornton
As violence mounts, journalists in Myanmar face growing risks
Reporting each other
Bill Birtles
Mistrust between China and Australia flows both ways
Myanmar falling
Michael Breen and Anne Décobert
The conditions for Myanmar’s coup were systemically ensured
Bittersweet
Lam Le
Thanks to the pandemic, Tet in Vietnam won’t be quite the same this year
Elephants in jars
Bertie Alexander
Growing up a troublemaker in Myanmar
More of the same
Phil Thornton
A military coup in Myanmar
A bright light
Elizabeth Becker
A journalism era closes with the death of Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie
Losing hope
Antony Dapiran
China crushes dissent in Hong Kong
Gutting the press
Thomas A. Bass
Vietnam imprisons more journalists
Kindness
Andrew Quilty
Death of an Afghan journalist
Vietnam’s pathfinder
K.W. Taylor
Vietnamese studies loses a pioneer
Cat and mouse
Thomas A. Bass
Pham Doan Trang goes to prison
Letter from Brooklyn
Abby Seiff
Americans celebrate the end of the Trump presidency
Writing home
Michael Freeman
From the American diaspora to homeland Vietnam
Orientalism redux
William Gibson
A colonial period piece is brought back to life
A short guide to gullibility
Robert Templer
Are we more gullible than we used to be?
Ho’s sweet home
Denise Y. Ho
Denise Ho and the city of her birth
Loving critics
Vanessa Lim
In Singapore, too much love for the country is never enough
China closes the border
Jennifer Eagleton
Why Hong Kong is an identity issue for China
Salt & Pepper
Connla Stokes
The film Spike Lee should have made
Rise and shine
Peter Yeoh
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods rolls out the racial cliches
The spectre of Tiananmen
Richard Heydarian
Tiananmen has shown that communist China will do anything to cling onto power. HK is next.
In parallel
San Lin Tun
Yangon’s Lim Chin Tsong Palace
Peanuts of war
Michael Uhl
In between battles, I tended the garden
HK’s spirit of resistance
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Beijing is determined to crush the protests
Saving Hong Kong
Benedict Rogers
Why the world should stand up to China’s assault on Hong Kong
Hope and memory
Robert Templer
An introduction to the May-July issue
The race ladder
Preeta Samarasan
How to talk about race in peninsular Malaysia
An inconvenient truth
David J.H. Blake
The overlooked role of irrigation in the destruction of the Mekong River
Sand
Tim Pelling
Exploring the past, the future and the shape of land made with sand
Genocide’s straw man
Matthew Smith
Responding to Benjamin Zawacki’s article
Facing the truth
Leonie Kijewski
At the end of the day, has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been pointless?
Writing debt
Joshua Kam
The winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize writes for his ancestors
To Mandalay
San Lin Tun
Some would prefer to go to Mandalay by plane, boat or bus, but I chose to go by train, like Paul Theroux
Go green in Hanoi
Ben Tran
On the beaten track in Southeast Asia’s most polluted city
Nguyen Ky and the singer
Pham Duy Khiem
A short story by Pham Duy Khiem, translated by Harry Aveling
Word generation
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Romanising Cantonese in Hong Kong
Wall-to-wall democracy
Penny Edwards
One country, two systems, many walls
Desperate times
Ben Wilson
The accidental reporter in Hong Kong