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Myanmar after the vote: what happens next?

Experts forecast what to expect in the wake of the NLD's landslide election win.

Sunshine and shadows

After the NLD's Myanmar election win, Nicholas Farrelly asks what role is there for those who missed out on the chance to vote.

The silenced river

In northern Laos a new dam has major implications for local villagers.

Southeast Asian snapshots

From mangled marathons to charity cases that aren't, Mish Khan brings you the best and worst from the region.

Notes on a Naypyitaw cockfight

Olivia Cable reports from a brawl of the bantams in Myanmar's capital.

Attachak Sattayanura.

Academics face unjust detention in Thailand

Call for support for scholars targeted by ruling military junta.

The crisis behind ‘A Kingdom in Crisis’

Mish Khan and Nicholas Farrelly recap a recent war of words over book on Thai monarchy.

Vietnam’s draft media law

Media control a line in the sand for communist party conservatives.

The cruelest cut

Why Indonesia must ban the harmful practice of female genital cutting.

Thailand’s rocky road to democracy

Next constitution likely to tilt more towards dictatorship than democracy.

Of murder, memory, corruption and power

A conversation with Joshua Oppenheimer on Indonesia's 1965 massacre.

Getting to grips with the future

What happens next will determine how much respect Myanmar’s reformers can demand from their own people, and from the rest of the world.