In Western educational discourse, heading abroad for university is frequently imagined as an exercise in personal ...

On 18 June 2026, a Mandarin-dubbed version of Dear You, a mainland Chinese production shot largely in Teochew, opened in Singapore theatres. Guidelines administered by the Infocomm Media Development ...

On 12 November 1994, a group of 29 young Timorese men gathered to protest outside the US embassy in Jakarta. They were there to make sure the world did not forget what happened at the Santa Cruz ...

Some of the most important starting points in the study of Southeast Asia are those moments when significant recalibrations of economic or social policy occur. In Vietnam, back in 1986, the ruling ...

1932 is usually described as the beginning of Thailand’s century-long coup season. Once upon a time when I sought to determine when this history of coups began I was surprised to find obscure ...

John Paolo Roberto A. Villasor is the Dean of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos School of Law in Bacolod City, Philippines, where he teaches Constitutional Law and Public International Law ...

In a week when lese majeste convict Suwicha Thakor was granted a royal pardon after serving more than a year in prison the Thai government’s approach to the Internet should continue to get the ...

At the end of 1992 after the dissolution of powerful friend the Soviet Union, the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, a major organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with responsibility for ...

Editor’s note: this article is based on the author’s Political Update paper presented at the 2023 ANU Indonesia Update Conference, the full version of which appears in the December 2023 edition of the ...

Among the new parties, two appear to represent the coming of hope, even for the impatient and the disillusioned—the Future Forward Party and the Commoners’ Party. Both cater to distinctive ...

On 1 October 2025, Indonesia marks the 60th anniversary of the murders of seven army generals that became the pretext of the 1965-66 Indonesian genocide. Ken M.P. Setiawan and Tintin Wulia, with the ...

Given the heterogeneity, tonnage and toxicity of modern waste, a convincing argument could be made for waste as the inscription of the Anthropocene. Even though it is both organic and inorganic waste ...