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On 15-16 March the Australian National University will host the 2013 Myanmar/Burma Update Conference. You can register online to attend.

Stepehen Campbell interviews Ma Su Su Nway, a prominent Yangon-based labour activist and National League for Democracy party member.

The Allah issue in Malaysia is related to the deeply entrenched Malay attitude towards the ability and right to name and summon spirits from the 'Malay spirit universe'.

We need to be careful that we don’t provide Thai ultra-royalists with exactly the image of the interfering Westerner they are seeking.

As the overall food supply becomes more volatile, Singapore is taking a well balanced approach in its food resilience programs.

French attitudes towards the Siamese hardened when reports arrived of "unspeakable atrocities” by Siamese troops in their repression of the Shan rebellion.

South-East Asian countries may stand independent politically and economically but they are still trapped within the syndrome of intellectual colonization.

The cultural foundation of the lèse majesté law is the toleration of intolerance. Some anti-royalist commentators seem determined to keep that cultural foundation intact.

Part 2 of an extended interview with Milton Osborne about the controversial politics of Norodom Sihanouk whose funeral ceremonies have commenced in Phnom Penh.

Can Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party reverse its electoral slide?

An interview with Milton Osborne about the policies, charisma and brutality of Norodom Sihanouk

Tindak Malaysia, a community based electoral reform group provides the most comprehensive electoral reforms to date in Malaysia.