Covering Up Violence
Pim Wangtechawat
The #DontTellMeHowDress exhibition challenges Thai attitudes to gender violence.
Category: Notebook
Gilgit-Baltistan
Kit Yeng Chan
Pakistan’s mountainous north
Contami-Nation
Parthiban Muniandy
The impurity of blended cultures is what makes Malaysian food — and society — unique.
Fried and fabulous
Pim Wangtechawat
Aharn sin kid— “the meal we fall back on when we can’t think of anything else to eat.”
Return to the Archetype
Hassan Abd Muthalib
Malaysia’s electoral narrative conforms to a universal storyline.
Up-market
Nick Freeman
Once the beating heart of commerce in Myanmar, wet markets are under threat
Street artistry
John Ramsden
Bùi Xuân Phái, perhaps the artist of his generation, struggled for acceptance and paint in Vietnam.
Walking the talk
Marina Mahathir
Malaysia’s opposition delivered a startling victory in May’s elections by going house-to-house.
The new bogeyman
Marina Tan
Perversely, vanquishing an old enemy in Malaysia could make it harder to create art.
Nose to tail
Philip Cornwel-Smith
Tripe to trotters, brains to balls—Bangkok is learning to love the whole pig
Kicking off
Pim Wangtechawat
Despite the corruption and commercialism, it’s hard not to cheer for someone at the World Cup.
Waiting for Kim
Peter Guest
When Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump in Singapore
Peace at last
Rupert Winchester
What meeting of minds awaits at the denuclearisation summit in Sentosa
Eating passionately
Liam R. Greenwell
A tribute to the late travel writer, chef and broadcaster Anthony Bourdain.
Coming home
Mohan Ambikaipaker
Returning to Malaysia on the eve of an historic election
Remembering Jerry
James Newport
Rock ‘n’ roll biographer and raconteur Jerry Hopkins passes away, aged 82.
Mourning in victory
Preeta Samarasan
For 60 years, racial politics demarcated Malaysian society
Enough
Carl Vadivella Belle
Lim Teck Ghee saw how Malaysia’s political status quo would end
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.
Poetry of Darkness
David Scott Mathieson
Maung Day’s exhibition Complicit is a bleak reflection of Myanmar’s troubled society
New coins, no change
Geoffrey Cain
The on-again, off-again Trump-Kim summit shows that with Pyongyang you always need a plan B.
Malaysia’s morning breaks
Pauline Fan
How would opposition firebrand Fan Yew Teng have greeted Malaysia’s political earthquake?
Lonely Seoul
Peter Guest
A lone figure walks Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon waterway
The people tsunami
Mohd Izzuddin Ramli
Malaysians have discovered that through their votes they can shape their country’s future.
Liquid Bangkok
Tim Pelling
Liquid Bangkok sets out to capture the beauty of a neglected world
Mahathir: Renaissance man
Ooi Kee Beng
Mahathir Mohamad’s return gives him an opportunity to address his sins to the nation, and to Anwar Ibrahim.
The RAHMAN prophecy
Bettina Chua Abdullah
In the afterglow of an astonishing election, Bettina Chua Abdullah ponders Malaysia’s coming-of-age.
Last post in Phnom Penh
Rupert Winchester
A crisis at the Phnom Penh Post
Hymn of hope
Rachel Hughes
A requiem for the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide
Losing liberal Malaysia
Wu Ming
Conservative Islam, mixed with online activism, threatens liberal thinking in multicultural Malaysia
Speaking truth to power
Ooi Kee Beng
Lim Teck Ghee has never shied away from the political arena.
Liberalism lite
T.F. Rhoden
Is Singapore a liberal democracy or a social democracy?
Monsieur Angkor
Aedeen Cremin
Scholar, author and gentle giant Claude Jacques has passed away.
Reading Trump
Sally Tyler
Which book best describes Trump’s first year in office?
Heroes of Tet
Michael Dedrick
Fifty years ago, these soldiers launched the most audacious military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
Aubade with burning city
Ocean Vuong
He fills a teacup with champagne, brings it to her lips.
Rakhine ramifications
Peter Firth
How the Rohingya disaster will affect Myanmar’s economic prospects
Letters
Ron Steinman, Robert McCormick, Andrew Stewart
Readers respond to our review of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War
Above & below
Justin Mott
Vietnam as seen from above and below