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After the bombings: 15 October in Yangon

Matt Schissler takes the pulse of the city after recent bombings and communal tension

Gentle reminder – thou shall not think

Malaysian students on Government of Malaysia scholarship advised not to attend Mr. Anwar Ibrahim's talk. It may cause their grades to deteriorate.

Military can still be good state-builders for Myanmar

Erik H. Ribeiro suggests we need to pay more attention to the Tatmadaw's productive role

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