Technology and terror
Robert Templer
How China uses surveillance technology to terrorise the Uyghurs
Category: Volume 6
Carrying on
Koey Lee
An interview with Hong Kong activist Nathan Law
The Tatmadaw
Phil Thornton
Myanmar’s military has cruelty baked into its DNA
Life of the party
Yuan Zhu
The forgotten lives of the Chinese Communist Party
End of the line
Tom Baxter
Coal’s days in Asia are numbered
Desecration
Rian Thum
China’s destruction of cultural sites in Xinjiang
Four poems
Dipika Mukherjee
Four poems by Dipika Mukherjee
The cursed generation
Jessie Lau
Memoirs of a lost Hong Kong
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
Ground zero
Michael Reilly
The origins of the coronavirus pandemic
Shutdown in Wuhan
James Weitz
Remembering the world’s first lockdown
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
‘A letter to the prison—for Perhat Tursun’
Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan
Poetry from Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan
So Cambodia
Patrick Allington
Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut
Freedom for some
Sudipto Sanyal
Freedom is still an ideal for many
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
The Ogura hundred
Michael Freeman
A new translation of Japan’s seminal poetry collection
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
Tokyo diners
Mark Robinson
Three dining tales from Tokyo
In transit
Farah Abdessamad
When Cambodia opened up
Ways of writing
Emily Ding
The trouble with travel writing
‘Sometimes’
Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed
Poetry by Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed
A local icon
Marc de Faoite
A towel for all times
Marking time
Sean Chadwell
A bookshop waits for its customers
China at large
Bryony Lau
How to live with a powerful neighbour
A realist’s lament
Michael Reilly
For China and Australia, a question of values
K Za Win
Poetry by the late K Za Win
Leaving Myanmar
Ben Dunant
As things fall apart, a foreign journalist is forced to pack his bags
Prelude to a coup
Kenneth Wong
The preconditions of the coup in Myanmar were there
They don’t talk big
Ko Inwa
Poetry by Ko Inwa
Hidden country
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Out from sight, poverty remains persistent in rural China
Fearless
Abby Seiff
Myanmar protest leader Ei Thinzar Maung speaks while in hiding
Our lost year
Pauline Fan
Democracy, the virus, and a missing year in Malaysia