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Loyalty demands ambiguity

Elizabeth Fitzgerald analyses two lese majeste rulings about Thai royalist firebrand Sonthi Limthongkul

The beginning of something ugly

Has the Kalimah Allah issue signalled the point of no return for Malaysia as a moderate Muslim nation?

Thai politics, 14 October and all that

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly reflects on a major anniversary in Thai politics

Sexual violence in Burma

Mark Inkey reports on how Burma hasn't signed the UN Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative

UMNO and Nazi Germany

Is Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to UMNO, what Carl Schmitt was to the Nazis? Rueban Balasubramaniam is concerned with the parallels.

Chin Peng and cleavages in Malaysian society

Chin Peng is being lauded and remembered as a symbol of opposition to UMNO privilege and corruption

A new paradigm of Muslim politics

Malaysia's Islamist party faces tough choices as they elect the new second echelon leadership with the GE13 electoral results still fresh in their minds.

Chin Peng, an obituary

Anthony Reid reflects on the life of Chin Peng, the enigmatic leader of Malaysia's oldest political party.

Myanmar could learn from Germany

Hunter Marston argues that Myanmar would benefit from a mixed member election system as it struggles to build its democracy

The Case of Sombath Somphone

Kearrin Sims writes about the ASEAN response to Sombath Somphone's disappearance in Laos

Pattana Kitiarsa on Thai boxing

This posthumous publication showcases Professor Pattana Kitiarsa's research on masculinity among rural Thais

MASSA 2013 – second call for papers

Malaysia and Singapore Society in Australia Colloquium 2013 -- extended deadline for abstracts.