The Vietnam–Saudi Arabia BLA came during period of relative openness Vietnamese civil society’s labour advocacy activities that had begun in the early 2000s. Labour newspapers and global NGOs stepped ...

British photographer Colin Grafton’s exhibition Cambodia 1972–1975 opened at the art gallery of the SOSORO Museum of Money ...

The disciplinary study of art history has been in crisis for some time. One of the premises of Roger Nelson’s remarkable ...

In Western educational discourse, heading abroad for university is frequently imagined as an exercise in personal ...

This post appears as part of New Mandala’s ARTSEA series on art, design and architecture in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, renewal is not merely an urban strategy; it is a moral and temporal ...

Since the 2021 military coup, Myanmar’s economy has foundered. The number of tourists and other visitors has fallen dramatically. Most foreign residents have fled the ensuing civil war. Given the ...

Anwar Ibrahim’s new tome, Rethinking Ourselves: Justice, Reform and Ignorance in Postnormal Times, appears at a time when both Malaysia and the international community are wrestling with uncertainty ...

If all had gone to plan, analysis of how the autonomy process in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is travelling would now be focusing on the results of a parliamentary ...

In the four and a half years that have elapsed since Myanmar’s armed forces, or Tatmadaw, took back direct political power, scholars, journalists, activists and sundry other pundits have made a wide ...

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, ...

There’s a notorious stretch of road in Indonesia, by the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, that passes through kilometres and kilometres of oil palm plantations. There are few people there, ...

At the end of 1992 after the dissolution of powerful friend the Soviet Union, the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, a major organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with responsibility for ...