Closing time
Nicharee Phatitit
In the middle of a Bangkok mall, a respite
Category: Southeast Asia
The new normal
Rachel Tough
Life goes on in post-lockdown Ho Chi Minh City
Guardians of the forest
Vo Kieu Bao Uyen
A development project is threatening the ‘lungs’ of Ho Chi Minh City
Where it all began
Abby Seiff
Interview with Amitav Ghosh
Abandoned
Anthony Morreale
Reconsidering the literature of South Vietnam
Of birds and beastliness
Bertie Alexander Lawson
Endangered life in Myanmar
Standing up
Colin Meyn
One-party state in Cambodian politics
Dark jester
Richard Heydarian
A tragic comedy in the Philippines
Spreading oil
Thomas A. Bass
The deciding end of French colonial rule in Indochina
Refugees
Trinh Q. Truong
How the Vietnamese plight defied the pretence of humanitarian neutrality
The singer-songwriter
Jee Leong Koh
A poem from Jee Leong Koh
Operation Saltmeat
Richard Clay
A British mission to supply Saigon
All the king’s men
Wasana Wongsurawat
The origins of Thai conservatism in the era of King Bhumibol
Low expectations
Pim Wangtechawat
Children of Thailand’s urban poor speak for themselves
Bangkok fields
Tyrell Haberkorn
Excess and dispossession frame a tragedy in Thailand
The building
Joseph Mai
Out with old, in with the new in Cambodia
Beware of killers who blend in with caterpillars
Patiwat Saraiyaem
A poem from Patiwat Saraiyaem
Bird business
Wayne McCallum
Bird watching in the Mekong
Greene on Tripadvisor
Connla Stokes
What Graham Greene ate in Vietnam
The Hanoi bubble
Lam Le
A tale of two Covid experiences in Vietnam
Dead city
Khai Q. Nguyen
Ho Chi Minh, a city that never sleeps, has fallen silent
Directive 16
Ben Quick
The lockdown order Da Nang has been dreading
The Tatmadaw
Phil Thornton
Myanmar’s military has cruelty baked into its DNA
Myanmar on edge
Thomas Kean
Six months of brutal junta rule
Separation
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
The pandemic has widened the gap between Malaysia and Singapore
Save our skins
Hong Kong Nguyen
Race and beauty in Vietnam
Home sweet hawker
Yishu Zhou
The taste of home
Ghost labour
Marco Ferrarese
Malaysia’s unrecognised migrant workers
Under the circumstance
Shih-Li Kow
A short story by Shih-Li Kow
So Cambodia
Patrick Allington
Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut
The missing half
Peter Zinoman
The forgotten stories from Vietnam’s south
In your face
James Yu
Thai expat literature is littered with bad behaviour
Potato eater
Tse Wei
A Singaporean banquet
My home canal
Anjan Sundaram
The sounds and smells of Phnom Penh
Coming through
Louis Raymond
A profile of Franco-Vietnamese artist Bao Vuong
In transit
Farah Abdessamad
When Cambodia opened up
Ways of writing
Emily Ding
The trouble with travel writing
A local icon
Marc de Faoite
A towel for all times
Marking time
Sean Chadwell
A bookshop waits for its customers
Covid chaos
Phil Thornton
Myanmar is facing a health crisis without a functioning government