Articles by James Giggacher

Campaign warriors we salute you

Jacqui Baker takes a look at how the major parties went in today's legislative elections.

A sight for sore eyes?

We cast our eyes over the best and worst campaign posters from the 2014 legislative elections.

Indonesia’s legislative elections: the story so far

Catch up with the key trends and developments in Indonesia's legislative elections.

Myanmar up for the count

The first census in 30 years poses challenges in a deeply divided society. New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly offers some thoughts from Naypyitaw.

Sombath Somphone.

What happened to Sombath Somphone?

The mystery of a missing Lao development worker highlights Southeast Asia’s record of enforced disappearances

Thailand’s ‘Days of our Strife’

It has all the ingredients of a daytime soap. But Thailand’s political drama is no work of fiction and makes for troubling viewing.

A Burmese skater posing with his board at Nanat Taw Bridge in Yangon. Photo by Ye Aung Thu/ AFP.

Rolling with the times?

Jacqueline Menager writes about why Burma's youth may not be ready for momentous change

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo from Wikimedia commons.

Burma’s next president

Aung San Suu Kyi could become Burma's next president, says former Australian Ambassador Trevor Wilson

Myanmar’s academic ambitions

ANU postdoctoral fellow Pyone Myat Thu argues that education is the key to unlocking the country’s vast potential