Street spirit
Abby Seiff
Political protests, once common in Phnom Penh, have all but disappeared
Category: Southeast Asia
Facing justice
James Jennings
Has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been a waste of time and money?
The clock’s wink
Catriona Knapman
Poetry from Catriona Knapman
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
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
One day, there is Mother and Radian
Avianti Armand
A short story from Avianti Armand
‘Trail’ & ‘Mane of sadness’
Acep Zamzam Noor
Poetry from Acep Zamzam Noor
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
Remembering Channthy
Scott Bywater
The musician broke down musical and cultural barriers
King Krishen
Marina Tan
The legacy of Malaysia’s king of theatre
Tales from tomorrow
George Wright
Independent filmmakers are thriving in repressive Cambodia
Literary town
Kate Mayberry
A literary festival with a political message
Humble pies
Joseph Mai
Bourdain returned to Cambodia to atone for his sins
Kafka in Saigon
Connla Stokes
A bookshop in Ho Chi Minh City
Covering Up Violence
Pim Wangtechawat
The #DontTellMeHowDress exhibition challenges Thai attitudes to gender violence.
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.”
Street artistry
John Ramsden
Bùi Xuân Phái, perhaps the artist of his generation, struggled for acceptance and paint in Vietnam.
Waiting for Kim
Peter Guest
When Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump in Singapore
Enough
Carl Vadivella Belle
Lim Teck Ghee saw how Malaysia’s political status quo would end
In states unborn
Theophilus Kwek
Southeast Asia’s febrile political environment is a fitting backdrop for a staging of Julius Caesar.
Liquid Bangkok
Tim Pelling
Liquid Bangkok sets out to capture the beauty of a neglected world
Hymn of hope
Rachel Hughes
A requiem for the victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide
Poetry
Phung Khac Bac
Poems by Phung Khac Bac
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
New Order child
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Eka Kurniawan talks about horror, history and sexuality
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
Marginalia
Theophilus Kwek
A poem by Theophilus Kwek
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