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Strikes, violence and modernity

Tim Frewer examines the tension between labour and coercive power in Cambodia today

What is to be done in Thailand?

Thaksin's lawyer Robert Amsterdam argues that coups should be a thing of the country's past

Top honour for Professor Des Ball

New Mandala contributor Professor Des Ball will this week be conferred with the Australian National University's Baume Award

Taking a stance

ANU PhD student Pasoot Lasuka offers a compelling analysis of the different groups opposing Thailand's amnesty bill

Show us your theories

In Thai politics there is plenty of push-and-shove on the streets, and among analysts. So what do you think is happening?

Seeds of Thai democracy

Cod Satrusayang is back with his take on brinksmanship and political conflict

The end of the Red Shirts?

Thorn Pitidol argues that Thailand's idealist pro-democratic voices are likely to face an even higher degree of marginalisation

Maid to order in Singapore

Singapore’s use of women from poorer, neighbouring nations as ‘domestic help’ reveals a dark stain at the heart of the country’s material wealth.

Thaksin, a yellow shirt?

Today Nicholas Farrelly asks whether we're seeing a re-alignment of Thai political interests

Back to Thailand’s future

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly analyses the disjunctures emerging in Thai politics this week

Angkor revisited

Jame DiBiasio argues the story of Angkor turns out to be far more fluid than the stone remains suggest

East Malaysia rising

One of Malaysia's top political scientists discusses the fortunes of the two East Malaysian states after Malaysia's 13th general election.