Moke
Martin Stuart-Fox
Lieutenant Colonel E.D. Murray—“Moke” to friends and fellow officers—knew nothing about Cambodia, but for a few brief weeks towards the end of 1945, he was, in his own words, its “uncrowned king”.
Tag: Issue 28
Resurrection
Bryony Lau
The disgraced Filipino family is back in charge
Hong Kong type
Wong Yi
An interview with author Dung Kai-cheung
Faded glory
Richard Heydarian
Manila: from pearl to weed
Where’s Jia Junpeng?
Manya Koetse
The year China discovered social media
Big brother
Grace Ly
The cinema of Rithy Panh
Mindset
Rupert Arrowsmith
From stopping wars to fighting climate change
Forced exile
Evan Fowler
China is not just changing institutions in Hong Kong
Xi in power
George Magnus
The enigma remains
Hostility, caution
John Gittings
Western attitudes towards China are full of contradictions
The past is never past
Vikram Kapur
Angry Hindus are on the march, again
Lost cause
Bill Hayton
A European liberal went to Vietnam
Bomb legacies
Martin Stuart-Fox
How war lives on in Laos
Hell Choson
Kion You
Charting the miracle on the Han
Smokescreen
David Scott Mathieson
America’s disillusionment with Myanmar
Coconut craze
Brandon C. Yen
How coconuts conquered the world
History dies at the nasi lemak stall
Ruhaini Matdarin
A short story by Ruhaini Matdarin
Mystic fare
Tse Wei
There is only one place to eat this
Not afraid of the sun
Randy Mulyanto
A Czech poet in Java in the 1920s
Middle distance
Michael Freeman
The poetry of being somewhere else
Dear departed
Leslie Barnes
Vale Linda Lê
Tell a friend
Lok Man Law
Poetry from Lok Man Law
Lit beacon
Abu Sayeed Asiful Islam
The secrets of their success
Lee Boo
Theophilus Kwek
Turning the prince’s story into music
Hollywood folly
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Once upon a time in China
Beach home
Supriya Roychoudhury
Cows on the beach, what’s there not to like?