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Kachin affair is a Bamar affair

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

Hobbism and Malaysia

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

Anthropology and the Lao hydropower industry

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

A much misunderstood monarch

It has become politically correct to write in such manner that everything the late King Norodom Sihanouk achieved for his people has to be belittled.

Against the grain

The politics of farming are starkly different in South Korea and Thailand, but not in the way you might expect.

What next for Myanmar’s reforms?

Arguably, the key issue for Myanmar's reforms is getting the sequencing right. So what should the government do next?

The swordsman in Tibet

Travelling in Tibet with village projectionists, Jinghong Zhang reports on the popularity of swordsman films.

Thailand’s arbitrary detention

The deprivation of liberty of Mr Prueksakasemsuk, being in contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is arbitrary.

Here were Men in Black!

Photojournalist Nick Nostitz reports on recent Democrat and Red Shirt political action in Bangkok.

Don Chan: once were tomatoes

When world leaders gather in Laos to talk about issues facing the troubled globe they may not be aware that the buildings in which they are housed put at risk the food security of the city in which they are meeting.