Can Jokowi recover from Australian and international outrage?

Angie Ngoc Tran examines the causes and consequences of a recent strike of over 90,000 Vietnamese workers for social insurance justice.

In his Myanmar Times column this week, Nicholas Farrelly considers Myanmar's ever-shifting picture of reform

The case of drug offenders on death row shows that a lack of compassion in Indonesia and Australia wins the day (and ends lives).

Insight on drugs, the death penalty and the execution of foreigners in Indonesia

When it comes to drugs, it's death for foreigners and leniency for locals, writes Hamish McDonald.

Matt Carney explores the hazards of thingyan in Yangon.

In his Myanmar Times column this week, Nicholas Farrelly analyses pay-rates for Myanmar officials

A new social class, with high morals, lavish salaries, and anti-majoritarian missions, will probably do Thailand more harm than good

Activist-journalist Myint Zaw has won the ‘Green Nobel’ for his campaign to save Myanmar's Irrawaddy river through art.

Masturah Alatas explores the contentious notion of "Chinese privilege" in Singapore

Ruediger Korff examines the challenges of generational change in Southeast Asia.

The reforms to the Sedition Act bodes ill to Malaysia's democratisation process, concludes Amanda Whiting.

Amanda Whiting investigates the use of the Sedition Act in Malaysia.

Amanda Whiting argues that the Bill to reform Malaysia's Sedition Act strengthens the authorities further.

Nicholas Farrelly reflects on an ANU field course about the Thailand-Myanmar borderlands

A new book on Australian journalists in Indonesia poses some tough questions about the bi-lateral relationship. Hamish McDonald reports.

Megawati takes a swipe at her party's president at the PDI-P congress in Bali.

Trevor Wilson pays tribute to one of Australia's great Burma scholars

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly has a new column at The Myanmar Times

Thongchai Winichakul stars in an exciting lineup at the ANU Thai Studies Conference on 30 April and 1 May 2015.

An interesting event discussing the implementation of Hudud in Malaysia.

Occasional New Mandala contributor Nuat Namman calls on foreign commentators to take a less simplistic approach to American democracy

Andrew Selth analyses the influence of the bard of the British Empire, Rudyard Kipling