By James Chin • Aug 31, 2021
As Malaysia marks 58 years of independence as a federation on August 31, Professor James Chin writes that the country today is going through a midlife crisis, suffering from identity issues caused by the rise of political Islam and the ideology of Malay-Islamic supremacy

By Joshua Wan • Aug 10, 2021
As Singapore marks 56 years of independence, Joshua Wan turns back the clock to a time when ethnic relations in the city-state were more fraught, revisiting and comparing two race riots in the 1960s as he draws insights for maintaining peaceful relations today

By Alastair McCready • Jan 07, 2021
Long-regarded as invaders and colonisers in the national narrative, the historically potent enmity shown by many Cambodians towards the Vietnamese is on the wane as the Kingdom's political and economic landscape dramatically shifts

By Ashley Tan • Dec 31, 2020
In Singapore, people are divided into four main racial groups – Chinese, Malay, Indian and “Others”. But in an increasingly modern and diverse city-state, many people of mixed heritage, among them African-Singaporeans, don't feel they fall into neat racial categories