Chinatown
Yvan Cohen
Photographer Yvan Cohen in Bangkok’s disappearing Chinatown
Category: Southeast Asia
Traces
Melanie Gritzka del Villar
Melanie Gritzka Del Villar’s unique driftwood art
Forever Red
Pim Wangtechawat
Passion for the English Premier League runs deep in Thailand
Who is Duch?
Antonia D. Bryan
Duch ran a well-oiled machine. He processed people, personally approving every confession.
The second Panglong trap
David Eimer
In Myanmar’s borderland conflict zones, promises of peace are wearily familiar
Attitude adjustment
Nic Dunlop
Thailand once had the freest press in Southeast Asia.
Facework
Emma Larkin
How power in Thailand really works
Poetry
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, Maung Philar, Khai Q Nguyen
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
The great leap
Peter Zinoman
Goscha’s Vietnam puts Vietnamese at the centre of their own history.
Agent Monsanto
Mick Grant
Fifty years after the spraying of Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Wild pigs cannot enter
Giulio Ongaro
The Akha people of Laos once maintained a condition of statelessness.
Refugee pain
Rupert Winchester
The Refugee is bold, bright and beautiful.
Threadbare
Gill Green
Enthusiasts will appreciate Devare’s book, but not experts in the field
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations
Smuggling the bodacious
Hans van Leeuwen
We sit looking at the screen. “PM lauds communist youth” looks back at us
Khmer new wave
Stefanie Sellon
The golden age of Cambodian architecture
Sre Ambel
Jeff Kisseloff
For McCallum, it wasn’t enough just to write about the environment
Saving the garden
David Hutt
Dr Siri meets solemn and dogmatic cadres in Laos
It ain’t pho
Connla Stokes
My father’s improvised experiments with Vietnamese cuisine were declared a success
Guardian of Yangon
Poppy McPherson
Thant Myint-U writes “with an eye to what the past might say about the present”
Dancing with Perséphone
Larry Strange
Khmer dance was once seen as purely decorative
Waiting for the smoke to clear
Tillman Miller
Because time is a loose concept in Laos, sometimes an hour or two of dinner would pass before any stories recommenced.
Chat Tomuk
Mekong Review
The passing of Thailand’s revered king has unleashed a torrent of eulogies.
Meet Kill
Sebastian Strangio
When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: Meet Kill.
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
Out of the box
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vietnamese-American literature fulfills the function of ethnic writing
Truth to power
Penny Edwards
You Need to Apologise to the People is in Burmese, written by a Burmese, about Burmese people
Derelict beauty
Cristina Maria Chiorean
The soul of Yangon reposes in buildings built by British, Indian and Chinese settler-traders
Benedict Anderson
John Sidel
Benedict Anderson left a prodigious legacy for Southeast Asian studies
The Viet bride
Trang Ha
I would forever remember Dan’s silence. Silently loving me. Silent before my family’s insults and dissuasion.
Fish need water
Thaveeporn Vasavakul
It will take fifty years to restore the marine ecosystem of Vietnam’s central coast
The Bangkok plot
Luke Young
William J. Rust sheds new light on postwar Cambodia
Regeneration
George Chigas
A new generation of Cambodian writers are given voice in English in Modern Literature of Cambodia
Cambodian vérité
Daniel Mattes
The sixty-ninth Cannes Film Festival premiered Cambodian director Davy Chou’s first feature film, Diamond Island.
Songs of survival
David Hutt
‘”I survived the Khmer Rouge, I survived the Soviet Union, and I survived cancer,” says Cambodian composer Him Sophy
Aquarium life
Wayne McCallum
Intrigue, mystery, subterfuge, robbery and murder — think an exotic fish
Sok sa bai
Nguyen Qui Duc
A trip down the Mekong River becomes surreal
Chat Tomuk
Mekong Review
The long-awaited Heng Samrin autobiography
More than just memory
Patrick Deer
Viet Thanh Nguyen tests the limits of fiction
The king still never smiles
Nicholas Farrelly
The enigma of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej