Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 23, 2017 • 2 min read

Sugar The real cost of Thailand scrapping its sugar subsidy program

By Logan Connor • Feb 23, 2017
Thailand is ending its sugar subsidy programme after complaints that it dragged down global sugar prices. But both rural farmers and the ruling junta could suffer from the decision

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 22, 2017 • 3 min read

Laos president visits Cambodia amid border dispute

By Logan Connor • Feb 22, 2017
As tensions along the Cambodia-Laos border flare, Laos President Bounnhang Vorachith is due to arrive in for a two-day state visit

Southeast Asia • Feb 16, 2017 • 3 min read
DPRK and Southeast Asia

Assassination of Kim Jong-nam highlights Malaysia’s close ties to North Korea

The murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, in a Malaysian airport brings into focus Malaysia’s deep ties with North Korea, but also threatens to damage the long-standing relationship between the two countries
By Euan Black • Feb 16, 2017

Southeast Asia • Feb 16, 2017 • 4 min read

Sizing up the shadowy leader of the Rakhine State insurgency

As Myanmar’s security forces continue their crackdown on the nation’s Muslim Rohingya minority, foreign-born fighter Ata Ullah is leading a group of insurgents in guerrilla warfare
By Paul Millar • Feb 16, 2017