Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
Category: Volume 5
This working life
Simon Vincent
A candid look at how hard Singaporeans work just to make ends meet
Family co.
Peter Tasker
How a Korean company beat the Japanese at their own game
Scholar and believer
Martin Stuart-Fox
How Thailand and Buddhism changed a scholar’s outlook on life
City of hope
Siti Keo
A new translation of a Cambodian novel brings its history to life
Lao lite
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotians may struggle to recognise themselves in Paul Yoon’s novel
Night-shift scenes*
Wong Yi
A short story by Wong Yi
Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
Spirit House (four)
Maw Shein Win
Poetry from Maw Shein Win
Rise and fall
Melody Kemp
The Mekong giveth and the Mekong taketh
On standby
Peter Yeoh
Covid-19 has put Jeremy Tiang’s play on Arthur Miller’s visit to China on ice
Carry across
Conner Bouchard-Roberts
Can we still travel in the age of climate change?
Jerryrigged machine
Tilde Acuña
Poetry from Tilde Acuña
Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Missing on stage
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Onward, Christian soldier
David Scott Mathieson
Despite their Christian zeal, these missionaries are effective in saving lives
New cause
Brian Chee-Shing Hioe
A kidnapping hasn’t deterred Lam Wing-kee from opening a new bookshop
Everywhere, forever
Robert Templer
Asia is addicted to plastic
City of light
Sebastian Strangio
Sihanoukville has long had a seamy underbelly
Weary
Lok Man Law
Hong Kong has opened the door to darkness
High and dry
Michael Buckley
The Mekong is not a tap
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Humanitarian breakdown
Benjamin Zawacki
How NGOs responded to Myanmar’s genocide
Spark to fire
Paul French
The history of mass protest in Hong Kong
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya
Human capital
Hsiao Mu
Can Hong Kong remain a global financial centre?
Hong Kong Beauty Treatment 2019
Jennifer Eagleton
A poem by Jennifer Eagleton
爹deh
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
A poem by Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Burning denial
Jeff Sparrow
Australia’s summer from hell
Into Burma
Joseph Woods
Travels in post-democratic Myanmar
Waterland
Peter A. Coclanis
The monsoon has shaped much of South Asia
Magical double
Lara Norgaard
Eka Kurniawan’s new collection of short stories
wait
Rory Harris
A poem by Rory Harris
The lives of others
Pauline Fan
Ho Sok Fong writes from the other side of everything
Little airs
Cedric Van Dijck
The book that killed colonialism
From the burning rabbit hole
Becca Stine
A short story by Becca Stine
Diaspora aporia
Michael Freeman
For poet Monica Sok, the personal is political
Thai Drama
James Weitz
Ethical predicaments in modern Thai fiction
Rukun Tetangga
Jennifer Lindsay
Neighbourhood democracy in Yogyakarta