Power

By Andrew Haffner • May 15, 2023
By a wide margin, voters rejected the military-backed leadership of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha while handing a clear mandate to Move Forward Party and Pheu Thai. As election workers tally final results, it remains to be seen how the next government will actually come together

By Danny Lim and Chris Hale • May 11, 2023
From the start of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in the anti-colonial movement to its decades of rule of an independent state, authors Danny Lim and Chris Hale trace the full arc of the once-dominant UMNO’s rise and fall

By Amanda Oon • May 11, 2023
Though now in decline, the party was a dominant force for decades thanks to its loyal Malay base. On the anniversary of the founding of the “Grand Old Party”, the Globe caught up with Professor James Chin, a Malaysian politics expert with the University of Tasmania and Sarawak native, for a Q&A on UMNO's past, present and possible future

By Dayna Santana Pérez • May 09, 2023
With shrinking rations, massive fires and increasing security threats in their camps in Bangladesh, many of the exiled Rohingya of Myanmar are desperately seeking new options