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
Category: Southeast Asia
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
The challenger
Mutita Chuachang
An interview with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
Cursed
Faisal Tehrani
“May your arse be on fire one day, Najib!”
Loss and chance
Michael Vatikiotis
The Lisu in China, Myanmar and Thailand
The gadfly
Sean Gleeson
Michael Vickery’s flawed history
Unthink
Joe Freeman
Meditation and its discontents
Displaced
James Weitz
Art and assimilation in Borneo
Dear TC
Andrew Lam
A short story by Andrew Lam
Marginal
Paul Arthur
Nha Thuyen’s essays on Vietnamese poetry
Small town romance
Robert Yeo
Inspired by Yin C.H.
On the fence
Theophilus Kwek
Singapore’s great divide
Don’t be afraid
Fahmi Mustaffa
A chance encounter in George Town
The reformer
Greg Earl
B.J. Habibie (1936–2019), Indonesia’s third president
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
The killings
Margaret Scott
Time for a full account of 1965
Local knowledge
Robert Templer
An interview with Sidney Jones
My sister’s story
Pim Wangtechawat
History is thicker than water
Have faith
George Styllis
The great escape from Tham Luang
Tithes that bind
Nick Freeman
Sending money back to Vietnam
Enduring
Aizuddin H. Anuar
An education in Sabah
Spooked
Andrew Selth
The ghosts that haunt Myanmar
One of us
Preeta Samarasan
Tash Aw writes about migrant labour
Play it again
Michael Freeman
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel
home
B.B.P. Hosmillo
A poem by B.B.P. Hosmillo
Misconceived
Anthony Morreale
Penguin stumbles over a Vietnamese classic
Rain dance
Amy Doffegnies
From Myanmar to Ireland
On the island
Marc de Faoite
My island home
Place and time
Louis Raymond
The art of Nguyen Manh Hung
Homefare
Tiffany Teng
The food we eat and why we eat it
Lost in paradise
Zachary Stockill
Last stop in Chiang Mai
Heartbreak hotel
Rupert Winchester
Goodbye, canary-yellow villa
Gentle giants
Wayne McCallum
Where to for the Asian elephant?
The seer (Lorong Ah Soo Market)
Theophilus Kwek
A poem by Theophilus Kwek
Drowned
Tom Sanders
Carry on down the Mone
Sign of the times
Oliver Slow
Back to bricks and mortar
Between two worlds
Michael Howard
Pham Duy Khiem embodied two cultures in conflict
Alfred Raquez
William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux
A French fugitive who became a chronicler of Cambodia