Go green in Hanoi
Ben Tran
On the beaten track in Southeast Asia’s most polluted city
Category: Asia Observed
Wall-to-wall democracy
Penny Edwards
One country, two systems, many walls
Too convenient for some
Ollie Arci
Grabbing a takeaway in Hanoi
Above the world
Philip Coggan
Cambodia’s royal palace turns 100
Quiet cruelties
Preeta Samarasan
Moral standards should not depend on public opinion
Back to democracy
Tyrell Haberkorn
Five years after the coup, Thais go to the polls
Mixed model
Tran Le Thuy
Be wary of Vietnam’s hybrid economic model
Anti-university
Thongchai Winichakul
Thai universities are no longer places of learning
Justice at last
Alex Hinton
For all its imperfections, the Khmer Rouge tribunal has delivered where it counts
Incomplete decolonisation
Prabhakar Singh
The curious case of Chagos
Interviewing Mahathir
Ben Wilson
Interviewing Mahathir’s interviewer
Farewell, sweet sodomy
Ann Lee
A generation of Malaysians have grown up on a rotten law
Curb your enthusiasm
Hun Sen's Eye
Don’t fall prey to dangerous, undemocratic and possibly traitorous pessimism!
Vote early, vote often
Hun Sen's Eye
As Cambodia goes to the polls, here are seven surefire tips for a fun-filled election day.
Return to the Archetype
Hassan Abd Muthalib
Malaysia’s electoral narrative conforms to a universal storyline.
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.
Kicking off
Pim Wangtechawat
Despite the corruption and commercialism, it’s hard not to cheer for someone at the World Cup.
Mourning in victory
Preeta Samarasan
For 60 years, racial politics demarcated Malaysian 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?
The people tsunami
Mohd Izzuddin Ramli
Malaysians have discovered that through their votes they can shape their country’s future.
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
Losing liberal Malaysia
Wu Ming
Conservative Islam, mixed with online activism, threatens liberal thinking in multicultural Malaysia
Lost in translation
Liam Kelley
Ben Kiernan’s history of Vietnam gets lost in translation
Khmer ways
Jack Weatherford
Who wrote the only surviving written account of the Khmer Empire?
Now we’re 50
Ooi Kee Beng
Is ASEAN a miracle? Or just a 50-year-old talkshop?
The magic is gone
Liam C. Kelley
The time has come to rethink Asian studies
Cambodia’s lost literary life
George Chigas
Cambodia’s first Khmer-language literary journal