In this micro-post, Nicholas Farrelly offers a brief glimpse from 300 feet above the Rakhine State as a plane wobbles in to land.

Nicholas Farrelly presents a micro-post about culture, commerce and competition in eastern Myanmar.

The Pakistan-based Taliban are helping fund schools in southern Thailand, according to Murray Hunter.

No-one in the modern history of Southeast Asia has had such a continuous and lasting effect on the politics of their country than the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

An interesting conference for those interested in the compatibility of Islam and democracy, and all things Islam in Southeast Asia, and beyond.

Amarjit Kaur asks why are so many Malaysians of Indian heritage still so poor?

In the first of this series Amarjit Kaur looks at the history of Indian migrants in Malaysia.

The future prosperity of Malaysia will not be determined by who governs Malaysia but by how it is governed, writes Murray Hunter.

Applications are open for Asia Pacific Week 2013 at the ANU. Travel grants are available.

If outrage at the lèse-majesté law drives some academic research and writing, some of it may be better for it and reveal that speaking the truth is noble.

Artist Chris Coles explores the world of Southeast Asian noir.

Panel proposals for the Twelfth International Conference on Thai Studies (April 2014, Sydney University) close at the end of this month.

In the wake of the 2004 tsunami some Moken believed the path was clear for them to create a revitalised identity.

A special Book Zone post for Valentine's Day, celebrating the theme of love in our National Library of Australia Thai collection

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?