ANU Thai Studies conference keynote address

Thongchai Winichakul speaks on how Thais educated abroad influence Thai academia and Asian studies.

Building trust key to peace

Amy Doffegnies and Cecile Medail report from the first borderlands and conflict session at the 2015 Myanmar/Burma Update.

Rohingya crisis: cause for optimism

Is a regional solution for the Rohingya outflow really unachievable?

The Thai junta’s doublespeak

Thailand's NCPO have made doublespeak a central strategy of its rule and turned it into an art of absurdity.

A woman votes in Myanmar's 2012 by-election. Photo from Wikimedia commons.

‘The perfect storm’

Tamas Wells reports from the politics session at the 2015 Myanmar/Burma Update.

Future lies in reconciling the present with the past

HE U Khin Aung Myint outlines the path for political reform in Myanmar.

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Making sense of the rule of law

The clash between the rule of law and law and order in Myanmar's courts.

Glimpses of Myanmar

Powerful images capture everyday reality of political and social change.

A must read on Myanmar

New edition of Andrew Selth's select bibliography of Myanmar now available.

Rohingya stalemate tests Myanmar

In his Myanmar Times column this week Nicholas Farrelly examines anti-Rohingya sentiment

PM Najib remarks on Rohingya

Nicholas Farrelly offers a quick summary of the Malaysian Prime Minister's remarks at #29APR.

Democracy worship in Thailand

Simplistic arguments are in danger of neglecting the complexities of democracy and ignoring roadblocks to its ‘return’.

New Mandala appoints new editor

Today we announce the appointment of James Giggacher as editor of New Mandala

Rohingya as a regional conundrum

Nicholas Farrelly suggests that Myanmar's reputation is being damaged by its response to the Rohingya crisis

Rohingya crisis: nothing from nothing

Friday's summit in Bangkok achieved little. It also shows that states that can’t help others, can’t help themselves.

Indonesia and the Rohingya: de-legitimising democracy?

How the Asian migrant crisis is putting democratic credentials to the test.

Naypyitaw stories: from street trader to hotel manager

Olivia Cable talks to a 26-year-old about how he made his life in Myanmar's capital.

Islam and the state in Myanmar

Melissa Crouch on the politics of belonging in Myanmar and the need to reframe understanding of the nation’s Muslim populations.

Action needed in the Buddhist-Muslim zone

Myanmar’s troubled western borderlands are in the news again with headlines about the trade in human desperation.

Rice, repression and rule by force

Thailand’s ongoing coup culture leaves a bad taste at home and abroad.

The empire strikes back

Indonesia's oligarchs are flexing their muscles. But to what extent were they defeated by Jokowi in the first place?

Re-shooting the elephant

A fast-changing Myanmar must bed down peace and end decades of civil war if it hopes to cement the progress of recent reforms.

Manila’s motorised mayhem

Cars cause chaos for commuters and cost Philippines a truckload.