The Koro Report
Faisal Tehrani
The dictator with a peculiar condition
Category: Southeast Asia
Phuong 19
Connla Stokes
Thriving on pastiche
Slum hip-hop
Pim Wangtechawat
Bangkok’s growing community of aspiring rappers
In the POST
Kate Walton
Jakarta’s unplanned bookshop and publishing house
Comforting truths
Theophilus Kwek
The stories Singaporeans tell themselves
Wall of sound
Cuong Pham
The multilingual, multicultural beats of Vietnamese musician Linh Ha
Incomplete decolonisation
Prabhakar Singh
The curious case of Chagos
Submission
Sean Gleeson
Information and power in a cloistered Myanmar
The second coming
Marc de Faoite
What the return of Mahathir means for Malaysia
Back to power
Eddin Khoo
An interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
Down and alone
Will Nguyen
An American protester in Ho Chi Minh City
A hero of our time
Richard Heydarian
Duterte increasingly looks like a spent force
Royal mess
David Chandler
Rethinking Cambodia’s golden age
What’s in a name?
Laetitia van den Assum
Ethnicity, terminology and identity in Rakhine State
Capitalist outposts
David Scott Mathieson
Fear and loathing on the Thai border
Veisse Pharmacy & Brave Girl Street
Richard Milazzo
Poetry from Richard Milazzo
Emerging power
Endy M. Bayuni
Wresting control of Indonesia’s natural resources
Reality bites
Michael Tatarski
Market movers and shakers in Vietnam
Realm of paradise
Kim Cheng Boey
Hungry ghosts and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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
From sea to mulberry fields
Son Nam
Translated fiction from southern Vietnam
Southern Son
Anthony Morreale
The voice of the Mekong Delta
Splice unbound
Peter Guest
The future of Asia’s newsrooms
Dark snaps
Nic Dunlop
Having fun on the Death Railway
The lost city
Aedeen Cremin
France’s enduring love affair with Angkor
Painting by subtraction
James Jennings
The evolution and appeal of Vietnamese lacquer paintings
Wandering souls
Joseph Mai
Rithy Panh buries the ghosts of the Killing Fields
The compulsive reader
Kate Mayberry
A quirky bookstore in downtown Kuala Lumpur
Tsunami, Family photoshoot & Spooky action at a distance
Maung Day
Poetry from Maung Day
Champa gems
William B. Noseworthy
Finally, a book to showcase the best of Cham art
Interviewing Mahathir
Ben Wilson
Interviewing Mahathir’s interviewer
Rich experience
Pim Wangtechawat
Watching others enjoying Crazy Rich Asians was as enjoyable as watching the film itself
True believer
Carlyle A. Thayer
Bui Tin (1927–2018) fought against the French, the Americans and, in the end, his Communist comrades
Hanoi after the war
John Ramsden
The Vietnam of 1981 was a very different place
Notes on a scandal
Clare Rewcastle
How Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal was exposed to the world
Like mother, like daughter
Nic Dunlop
How Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother played a pivotal role in her political upbringing
Bao Ninh’s wars
John Fuller
An interview with the author of The Sorrow of War