Dateline Vietnam
Martin Stuart-Fox
Three female journalists shaped how the Vietnam War was understood
Category: Southeast Asia
Work robots
Charles Brophy
What we lose with each technology disruption
Where they belong
Farah Abdessamad
Looting—and returning—Southeast Asia’s treasures
‘Phone booth’, ‘Shops’, ‘Restaurant’, ‘Factory’, ‘Eggs’, and ‘Huts’
Maw Shein Win
Poetry from Maw Shein Win
Teochew opera
Ken Kwek
A short story by Ken Kwek
Political terror
Tyrell Haberkorn
A novel takes on the Thammasat massacre
Jakarta stories
Jennifer Lindsay
Ten Indonesian authors capture a sense of place
Divided selves
Michael Freeman
Language and belonging from the Chinese diaspora
Tiếng đập cánh từ đâu
Nhã Thuyên
‘Where are the wings beating from’
Language is power
Violet Cho
The Burmanisation of language in Myanmar
Dropping English
Marc de Faoite
Navigating language in Malaysian fiction
Childhood snacks
Tse Wei Lim
Recalling the hawker stalls of yesteryear
More of the same
Phil Thornton
A military coup in Myanmar
A bright light
Elizabeth Becker
A journalism era closes with the death of Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie
Gutting the press
Thomas A. Bass
Vietnam imprisons more journalists
Vietnam’s pathfinder
K.W. Taylor
Vietnamese studies loses a pioneer
Cat and mouse
Thomas A. Bass
Pham Doan Trang goes to prison
Thailand’s future
Chris Baker
The spectre of the Thammasat massacre hangs over the current protest in Thailand
The Tonle Sap
Abby Seiff
The Tonle Sap, a tributary of the Mekong, is dying
Osborneland
Paul French
Alienated souls in exotic locations—welcome to Osborneland
The provocateur
Michael Vatikiotis
Michael Vatikiotis talks to Kishore Mahbubani about his new book, Has China Won?
Modesty culture
Dania Kamal Aryf
We need to talk about Malaysia’s modesty culture
Losing Hindustan
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
When did the reimagination of Hindustan begin?
The Jarai
Martin Stuart-Fox
How did the Jarai survive colonialism, nationalism, even the Khmer Rouge?
Arhats in Clementi
Michael Freeman
A latter-day Baudelaire rambling the streets of Singapore
Home quarantine
Khai Q. Nguyen
Memories are let loose in a Ho Chi Minh City quarantine facility
The peace plane
Connla Stokes
Remembering Bradford Edwards and his peace plane
Home truths
Chath pierSath
Looking for love and home in Vietnam
Penang retreat
Marc de Faoite
A bookshop in George Town rides the pandemic
Writing home
Michael Freeman
From the American diaspora to homeland Vietnam
White clouds flying
Bao Ninh
A short story by the author of The Sorrow of War
Fallen history
Bryony Lau
In the Philippines, fiction has the power to challenge the official version of history
Jakarta is coming
Lara Norgaard
How a US-sponsored coup in Indonesia was replicated in Brazil
Carried away
Pauline Fan
Teaching Paul Celan to speak Malay and teaching Malay to speak Celan
Homeless and stateless
Helen Jarvis
A Rohingya on the run
Personal history
Louis Raymond
Writing history and searching for identity make bad company
Luck out
David Payne
Stories of chance and consequences inside and outside today’s Vietnam
Control nation
Theophilus Kwek
A critical look at Singaporean society stands the test of time
Shake in our sleep
Michael Freeman
Theophilus Kwek’s poetry probes the complexities of Singapore’s history
Ganesha at large
Rupert Arrowsmith
The poet Jennifer Mackenzie on her engagement with Indonesian literature and art