By Alastair McCready • Jun 11, 2020
When Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit was bundled into a car in Phnom Penh on June 4, he became merely the latest in a string of forced disappearances in the region. With several authoritarian governments coexisting in close proximity, the peculiarly Mekong country issue of activist kidnapping shows no sign of abating

By Saigoneer • Jun 11, 2020
The work of French photographer Paul Gastaldy provides a rare sepia-drenched insight into the history of Vietnam, with his collection of photos, taken over the course of a decade between 1922 and 1932, depicting daily life for people in the colony

By Pitcha Dangprasith and Sophie Deviller/AFP • Jun 11, 2020
As the pandemic paralysed global travel, Thailand's some 3,000 domesticated elephants working in "sanctuaries" have been unemployed since their closure in mid-March. With their incomes vanished and risk of starvation growing, more than 1,000 elephants and their mahouts have returned to their villages in the past two months

By Sek Sophal • Jun 10, 2020
While the Covid-19 crisis has placed life on hold in Thailand in recent months, the country's chronically tumultuous domestic political scene is rearing its head again. Researcher Sek Sophal discusses what the kingdom's post-virus political landscape could look like