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

Andrew Morgan looks closely at the changing landscape for civil society in the years after direct military rule

Will there be poetry or pragmatism now the CEO of Singapore Inc is gone?

Huong Le Thu suggests that in Vietnam the Communist Party has recognized how social media can be a very efficient tool

Eisel Mazard reflects on the limited global appetite for understanding obscure wars in distant places

Robert Talcoth argues that in Thailand social media has the potential of becoming another tool of oppression