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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.

Unsilenced

Haris Ibrahim explains why, in his view, in Malaysia it has to be "Anything But UMNO"

On the cusp of disease transition in Myanmar

Sam Byfield and Maeve Kennedy reflect on the health consequences of a changing political and economic environment

Malaysia-US and Malaysia-China relations

Will Malaysia allow China a naval base in Sabah? What would the implications be for ASEAN if there were closer China-Malaysia military cooperation?

Non-Han Chinese diasporic communities

Organisers of this conference invite applications to present papers which explore the non-Han Chinese living and working outside China

Malaysia to build bridges with North Korea

The question is: why did a Malaysian university give an honorary doctorate to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un?