The nature of interactions between citizens and individual police officers make these officers the ultimate “street-level ...

Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền is an independent researcher based in Japan, with an academic background in history and anthropology. Huyền previously worked at VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, ...

Since the end of the Sino–Vietnamese War (part of the Third Indochina War) in 1989, the Vietnamese government has directed its attention towards development in northern border regions to strengthen ...

Bavo Stevens is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at McGill University and a Visiting Researcher at the ...

In August 2014, I helped organise a national seminar in Magelang, Central Java, that celebrated the 200 th anniversary of the supposed “discovery” of the temple of Borobudur by the then British ...

Chin Peng, born Ong Boon Hua, 21 October 1924 to 16 September 2013 The passing of Chin Peng in Bangkok on 16 September 2013 brings to an end one of the longest of Asian political biographies. Chin ...

In 1967, Operation Merdeka was initiated by the late President Ferdinand Marcos. The main objective was to annex Sabah for the Philippines. The legal basis of the operation was the claim of the Sultan ...

Findings from a nationwide survey commissioned by Yangon-based NGOs Colors Rainbow and &PROUD indicate that Myanmar’s general public are in favour of greater equality for the country’s LGBT* ...

Photo courtesy of Akshay Mahajan (Creative Commons licence) After a long period of relative silence, the most tragic period in Cambodia’s history has experienced a renaissance of interest. Spurred by ...

Open your fridge, pantry, or bathroom cabinet, and you’re likely to find a product containing carrageenan, a gelling substance derived from red seaweed. It is an essential part of modern daily life, ...

1932 is usually described as the beginning of Thailand’s century-long coup season. Once upon a time when I sought to determine when this history of coups began I was surprised to find obscure ...

The motivations behind these reforms—the renewed emphasis on language learning, a desire to see more Australian students up in the Indo-Pacific for longer duration experiences, and a rebalancing of ...