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Royal resilience and Thai dictatorship

Chatwadee Rose Amornpat, a Thai charged with lese majeste, makes an impassioned plea for the future of her country.

Making sense of Myanmar’s borderland conflicts

Identity and ideas more powerful than resources in causing conflict, report Amy Doffegnies and Cecile Medail.

Making waves

Will Indonesia be a 'global maritime fulcrum'?

The Sultan’s coup

John Monfries reports that one of the last kingdoms of Java has tentatively embraced female succession.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to China

Visit will define the nature of future relations between the two countries, whatever the outcome of Myanmar's elections.

Beef and prejudice

Australian responses to cattle slaughter in Indonesia and Vietnam show our bias when it comes to our neighbours.

Is Myanmar divided?

Tamas Wells reports from the many dimensions of conflict session at the 2015 Myanmar/Burma Update.

On the border, spite is no answer

Nicholas Farrelly suggests Bangladesh and Myanmar should be able to negotiate favourable terms with donors.

ANU Thai Studies conference keynote address

Thongchai Winichakul speaks on how Thais educated abroad influence Thai academia and Asian studies.

Building trust key to peace

Amy Doffegnies and Cecile Medail report from the first borderlands and conflict session at the 2015 Myanmar/Burma Update.

Rohingya crisis: cause for optimism

Is a regional solution for the Rohingya outflow really unachievable?

The Thai junta’s doublespeak

Thailand's NCPO have made doublespeak a central strategy of its rule and turned it into an art of absurdity.