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Southeast Asia shows us that there are two paths to democratisation – one of big bang change with reforms and another of simply muddling through.

Given the number of protesters on 28 October 2012, which was more than any recent PAD, Siam Samkkhi or Blue Sky event, we may be in for more interesting times.

Is Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, pursuing the military strategy of Roman dictator Fabius Maximus, who was known as Fabius the Delayer?

There is a revolution going on in Southern Thailand and I'm not talking about the insurgency.

According to this analysis, the National League for Democracy's discriminatory policy on Rohingya is no less than that of the former military regime.

Did Mahathir plant the seeds to the current opposition coalition through his draconian measures to, ironically, stifle the opposition?

Thailand's numerous environmental handbooks (р╕Др╕╣р╣Ир╕бр╕╖р╕н, р╕Хр╕│р╕гр╕▓) have proven to be a valuable blend of common sense, superstition and rationalist understanding.

Far from a great novel, but The Village offers some perceptive insights into the micro-politics of rural Thailand.

Even if half of the casualties reported are true, it is disturbing that there is no demonstration of anguish among the Burmese people.

Its not poor politics alone that is the reason for authoritarianism in Malaysia but Hobbism.

In the annals of anthropologists working in the Lao development industry, Jan Ovesen's 1993 study must be one of the earliest.