The race ladder
Preeta Samarasan
How to talk about race in peninsular Malaysia
Tag: Free to read
An inconvenient truth
David J.H. Blake
The overlooked role of irrigation in the destruction of the Mekong River
Sand
Tim Pelling
Exploring the past, the future and the shape of land made with sand
Genocide’s straw man
Matthew Smith
Responding to Benjamin Zawacki’s article
Facing the truth
Leonie Kijewski
At the end of the day, has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been pointless?
Writing debt
Joshua Kam
The winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize writes for his ancestors
To Mandalay
San Lin Tun
Some would prefer to go to Mandalay by plane, boat or bus, but I chose to go by train, like Paul Theroux
Go green in Hanoi
Ben Tran
On the beaten track in Southeast Asia’s most polluted city
Nguyen Ky and the singer
Pham Duy Khiem
A short story by Pham Duy Khiem, translated by Harry Aveling
Word generation
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Romanising Cantonese in Hong Kong
Wall-to-wall democracy
Penny Edwards
One country, two systems, many walls
Desperate times
Ben Wilson
The accidental reporter in Hong Kong
Between two worlds
Michael Howard
Pham Duy Khiem embodied two cultures in conflict
Too convenient for some
Ollie Arci
Grabbing a takeaway in Hanoi
Ancestors
Thuy Vy
Inspired by the portraits of the deceased
Alfred Raquez
William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux
A French fugitive who became a chronicler of Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Alfred Raquez
A glimpse of 19th century life in the Cambodian capital
Above the world
Philip Coggan
Cambodia’s royal palace turns 100
Road to success
Vanessa Chan
The secret to my success was my grandfather and his Nissan Langley
One year on
Adeline Chua
Malaysia and the art of Charis Loke
A letter to Les
Mike Freeman
The Australian poet Les Murray remembered
Shifting sands
Tim Pelling
Sand, once inexhaustible, is disappearing faster than ever
Quiet cruelties
Preeta Samarasan
Moral standards should not depend on public opinion
A judicial killing
Teerapon Anmai
When reading books was deadly
Kun Khmer
Robert Starkweather
Thai fighters are once again Kun Khmer’s number-one foil
Back to democracy
Tyrell Haberkorn
Five years after the coup, Thais go to the polls
Missing in Adelaide
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia skips Asia
Mixed model
Tran Le Thuy
Be wary of Vietnam’s hybrid economic model
Anti-university
Thongchai Winichakul
Thai universities are no longer places of learning
Direct line
Paul Wedel
Tracing the career of Anand Panyarachun
Culture shock
Pim Wangtechawat
Thailand’s problematic relationship with hip-hop
Comforting truths
Theophilus Kwek
The stories Singaporeans tell themselves
Robert Turnbull (1957–2018)
Aaron Carpene
Music was his passion and his legacy
Monsoon Saigon
Jake Lloyd Jones
The monsoon is the most poetic of seasons
Justice at last
Alex Hinton
For all its imperfections, the Khmer Rouge tribunal has delivered where it counts
Wall of sound
Cuong Pham
The multilingual, multicultural beats of Vietnamese musician Linh Ha
Incomplete decolonisation
Prabhakar Singh
The curious case of Chagos
Champa gems
William B. Noseworthy
Finally, a book to showcase the best of Cham art
Interviewing Mahathir
Ben Wilson
Interviewing Mahathir’s interviewer
Rich experience
Pim Wangtechawat
Watching others enjoying Crazy Rich Asians was as enjoyable as watching the film itself