Emerging power
Endy M. Bayuni
Wresting control of Indonesia’s natural resources
Category: Reviews
Reality bites
Michael Tatarski
Market movers and shakers in Vietnam
Emergency lives
Zhou Hau Liew
The broken lives of the Malayan Emergency
Karen rebel
Catriona Knapman
The beauty queen who became a rebel
Bride hunters
Leslie Barnes
Vietnamese women who marry Taiwanese men
Don’t be afraid
Theophilus Kwek
Summoning terror in two new novels from Singapore
The lost city
Aedeen Cremin
France’s enduring love affair with Angkor
Like mother, like daughter
Nic Dunlop
How Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother played a pivotal role in her political upbringing
Hot water
Bill Hayton
It should be obvious by now what China wants in the South China Sea
Facing justice
James Jennings
Has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been a waste of time and money?
Adulation
Carl Vadivella Belle
Mahathir’s right-hand man gets away scot-free in this biography
Faith and facts
Ninus Andarnuswari
Muslim journalists seek the truth as part of their faith
Warcraft
Geoffrey Cain
The war on diplomacy in the US started before Donald Trump
Winging it
Nick J. Freeman
The dangers of development on the cheap
Milton’s Indochine
Philip Coggan
The calm before the end in French Indochina
Wounded queen
Michael Freeman
Hieu Minh Nguyen anatomises the wounds and scars of his identity
Capturing Hanoi
Christopher Goscha
Hanoi before capitalism
Keys to chaos
Quinn Libson
A hotel in Phnom Penh unlocks a violent past
Escape
Rupert Winchester
Kirsten Chen leads the SingLit charge
Underground
David Scott Mathieson
Myanmar’s civil war on canvas
Art and context
Peter Yeoh
T.K. Sabapathy opens up a world of art
Made in Hong Kong
Graham Earnshaw
How Bruce Lee made Hongkongers proud of their Chinese heritage
Enough
Carl Vadivella Belle
Lim Teck Ghee saw how Malaysia’s political status quo would end
Deadly populism
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
Duterte’s anti-drug policy falls hardest on the weak
The local art of war
Michael Vatikiotis
Conflict and regionalism in precolonial Southeast Asia
Lansdale’s ghost
Thomas A. Bass
Resurrecting the architect of America’s Vietnam War
Unbowed
Gareth Richards
Rare glimpses into Japan’s invasion and occupation of Singapore
Survivor stories
Anjan Sundaram
Truth, fiction and the Khmer Rouge
Tunnel visions
Kishore Mahbubani
The West ignores the story of Asia’s remarkable rise at its own risk
Cold War monks
Camille Devries
Zealotry and conflict in Southeast Asia
Tyranny of borders
Francis Wade
How nationalism and colonial legacies shape identity and belonging
State censor
Peter Zinoman
Suppressing free speech in the social media age
Vanishing
Scott Ezell
Trading away priceless heritage
Firefly
Michael Freeman
Exploring grief and defiance in North Korea
From the shadows
Marc de Faoite
Anger, love and alienation permeate K.S. Maniam’s short stories
Being Asian
Pim Wangtechawat
Crazy Rich Asians gets beyond the stereotypes
Gaijin
Peter Tasker
Ian Buruma comes of age in Japan’s warm, wet days of low-tech chaos
A nation’s song
Beth Yahp
Bringing forgotten Malayan music back to vibrant life
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?