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Despite Malaysia’s record of economic growth since the 1970s, poverty remains a persistent, and especially vexing, problem. How likely is a structural remedy under the new PH government?

จงสังเกตความโหยหาอำนาจนิยมในสังคมไทย: มงคลกิตติ์เป็น ส.ส. สะท้อนอะไร

Reconsidering an oft-overlooked chapter in Vietnam’s decolonisation.

After failing to assemble a critical mass that aggressively rallies for his policies, Duterte is leading a top-down insurgency to overturn to overturn the liberal-democratic establishment.

Part 2 of this 3-part series on the SG Bicentennial explores MY Bridge of Light, a community play sponsored by the official bicentennial fund.

Party-hopping and partisan polarisation have characterised the post-GE14 landscape. What are the implications?

Is Indonesia’s most popular preacher a mentor, or a closet radical?

Why riots in Wales in June 1919 are a useful resource for appreciating histories of Malay identity beyond the violence of 13 May 1969.

Can Malaysia's new government depend on its unelected Islamic bureaucracy?

Amid assassinations and forced disappearances of Thai dissidents abroad, a dissident publisher reflects on what it means to “survive” under “Democracy with the King as the Head of State".

Clouds are gathering for the hard-line Islamic group.

PoP's Cheng Nien Yuan continues her commentary on Singapore's Bicentennial.