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Political reporting and analysis on the big questions facing the region.
By David Hutt • Feb 04, 2015
With the United States’ renewed affection for Asia provoking suspicion from China, will Southeast Asian nations become pawns as the two superpowers battle for influence?
By David Hutt • Feb 02, 2015
After five decades in and out of Cambodian politics, Prince Norodom Ranariddh has breezily announced yet another return, but many doubt his abilities and motives
By Laila Drake • Jan 07, 2015
Within the police force, communist ideals trump education and inflicting pain is the preferred interrogation technique, adding up to a deadly environment inside the nation’s prisons
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Nov 02, 2014
Recent high-level government meetings have confirmed that Vietnam and the United States are continuing to strengthen their bilateral relations
Celebrating Shan National Day at the mountaintop headquarters of the Shan State Army-South
By Daniel Otis • Mar 03, 2014
The massive Trans-Pacific Partnership deal could cause drug prices to soar in Vietnam, devastating people with life-threatening illnesses
By Daniel Besant • Jan 20, 2014
The Asean Secretary General provides updates on tourism integration in Southeast Asia
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Dec 12, 2013
A visit to Jakarta’s Museum of Communist Treachery, one of many institutions that present government propaganda at its finest
By Philip Jacobson • Aug 19, 2013
The anti-Muslim 969 movement is fuelling the fire of religious discontent in Myanmar
By Carlos Sardiña Galache • Aug 06, 2013
More than 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s Stasi files are still throwing up some surprises – not least for those living in Cambodia as profiles on many Khmer Rouge defectors, many of whom lead the country today, have emerged
By Dr Markus Karbaum • Apr 08, 2013
The spotlight has once again been cast on the Kingdom’s fractured judiciary. What are the roots of its problems?
By Bridget Di Certo • Feb 14, 2013
Recent sectarian violence has brought renewed attention to the Rohingya. Brutal oppression is nothing new to this Muslim ethnic group, many of whom have chosen to endure a hellish existence in hostile Bangladesh rather than return to their native Myanmar
By Greg Constantine • Nov 08, 2012