State censor
Peter Zinoman
Suppressing free speech in the social media age
Category: Southeast Asia
Vanishing
Scott Ezell
Trading away priceless heritage
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
Claude Jacques
Aedeen Cremin
Claude Jacques leaves his quiet legacy on Khmer history
Coming out to dance
Erin Handley
Founder of Cambodia’s first all-gay dance troupe discovers freedom in limitation
A nation’s song
Beth Yahp
Bringing forgotten Malayan music back to vibrant life
Good old bad days
Michael L. Gray
How Hanoi’s cartoonists fought hardship with humour
Eating amok
Robert Carmack
Defining Cambodian cuisine has its challenges.
Ibrahim Tahir
Peter Guest
Wardah Books lies at the historic heart of Malay Singapore
Losing liberal Malaysia
Wu Ming
Conservative Islam, mixed with online activism, threatens liberal thinking in multicultural Malaysia
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?
My Lai
Michael Uhl
Was it the scale of the killing or the cover-up that made the My Lai massacre a scandal?
Re-reading Greene
Mai Huyen Chi
The passive Vietnamese in ‘The Quiet American’.
The journalist
Gwen Robinson
The veteran Thai journalist Kavi Chongkittavorn on the state of regional media.
Cycle of vengeance
Kosal Path
Fear of revenge explains Cambodia’s season of political repression.
Poetry
Benjamin Bartu
Poetry from Benjamin Bartu.
Disobedient women
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Intan Paramaditha subverts her country’s notions of womanhood.
The water people
Abby Seiff
Dams, climate change and overfishing are changing Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
Finding holiness
Fahmi Mustaffa
In search of the holy in Malaysia’s many faiths and cultures.
The prison poets
Joseph Woods
The story of the poets who survived Myanmar’s military regime
A lady of distinction
John F. Hartmann
Boonlua’s classic on the Thai aristocracy is a modern-day parable.
Bagan and beyond
Aedeen Cremin
How was Bagan built and how did it become a World Heritage Site?
Line and content
Craig Thomas
The art of pushing political boundaries but never stepping over them in Vietnam.
Rock ’n’ roll damnation
Marco Ferrarese
Southeast Asian heavy metal rockers unmasked.
The homeless
Greg Constantine
For decades, the Rohingya have languished along the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf highway.
Letters
Michael G. Karnavas, J.D. Wright
Readers on Liam Kelley’s review of Ben Kiernan and Peera Songkünnatham’s review of Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon.
Monsieur Angkor
Aedeen Cremin
Scholar, author and gentle giant Claude Jacques has passed away.
China calling
David Eimer
Can Aung San Suu Kyi resist China’s influence? The generals before her couldn’t
Facing the end
Jodie DeJonge
The inside account of the final days of the Cambodia Daily.
The blogger
John Fuller
Blogger Nguyen Chi Tuyen says he’s ready to sacrifice his life for freedom.
A broken state
Sean Gleeson
The recent violence against the Rohingya continues a systemic attempt to strip them of their right to exist in Myanmar.
River politics
Andrew Wells-Dang
Can anything be done to stop the rush of hydroelectric dams being built on the Mekong?
Starfall
ko ko thett
Lynn Moe Swe, the celebrated poet from Monywa who passed away in September.
Reformasi, remembered
Kean Wong
Before the rise of conservative Islam in Malaysia, there was reformasi
The Tribunal
Alexander Hinton
Putting the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the dock.
An earful
Peera Songkünnatham
How a poem about Yingluck Shinawatra’s ear shines a light on the patriarchal culture embedded in Thai folk tales.
Lost in translation
Liam Kelley
Ben Kiernan’s history of Vietnam gets lost in translation
Pulp horror
Tiffany Tsao
How Western reviewers missed the point of Eka Kurniawan’s latest work.