“For hundreds of years, we’ve been practising so-called self-quarantine. Long before the recent COVID-19 outbreak. We called it besesandingon.”

The collection of facial recognition data to identify separatist insurgents in the deep south will only feed distrust towards the Thai state.

With tourism making up a relatively small portion of Indonesia’s GDP, investment and household consumption do the heavy lifting in this trillion-dollar economy.

The intensification of punitive sexual surveillance in Indonesia goes deeper than the rise of conservative Islam.

Constraints on freedom of expression have expanded alongside dynamic economic growth in Laos over the past 12 months. Where will it lead?

Young people are at a higher risk of mental health conditions when compared to the rest of the population, leading to poorer health outcomes, human rights violations and local and global economic loss.

Women in Rakhine state are doubly jeopardised when the threat of COVID-19 intersects with war.

Reports emerging of anti-communist attacks in cities and rural areas, arrests of activists and union members, and military action in spite of a declared ceasefire.

Technological solutions like TraceTogether will only effectively if people believe it’s there to help them.

Is adherence to social restrictions being used as "an uncritical litmus test to judge good and bad citizens?"

ระเบียบใหม่เรื่องทรงผมนักเรียนได้เรื่องจริงหรือ?

Who gets to be categorized as vulnerable and receive much-needed economic assistance?

Who has the right to live in the city? And what role can facilitated community organisation that engages all residents of the city play in determining the shape and life of the city?

Waning philanthropy has exacerbated the risks COVID-19 poses to Southeast Asia.
But there are lessons to be learned.

History lessons on epidemic disease monitoring systems from the League of Nations' Singapore Bureau.

The Facebook group "Royalists Marketplace", a platform for discussion on all things monarchy, is a microcosm of burgeoning criticism against Thailand's new king.

Dr Teresa Melgar draws on her comparative research in Brazil and the Philippines to help us understand the potential of engaging citizens fully in political processes.

Military interventions are preventing essential medical aid and health workers from reaching people.

Peera Songkünnatham on the military's troubled response to COVID-19, and the King's absence

The artists' imagery evokes the collective ethical and moral challenges of our times through the lens of epochs past, writes Greg Doyle.

The success of large-scale social restrictions is heavily reliant on effective coordination.

Wataru Kusaka's extensive ethnographic work leads him to emphasise the importance of recognising populist voters as concrete individuals, rather than abstract others,