Chin Peng, born Ong Boon Hua, 21 October 1924 to 16 September 2013 The passing of Chin Peng in Bangkok on 16 September 2013 brings to an end one of the longest of Asian political biographies. Chin ...

One of the legacies Joko Widodo leaves Indonesia is a dramatically changed relationship between government and civil society. For the first decade and a half of the post-Suharto period, pro-democracy ...

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When Chulalongkorn University announced plans to redevelop Bangkok’s Sam Yan district into a “Smart City”, few expected that a tiny Chinese shrine tucked behind student dormitories would spark one of ...

Earlier this week, Tran Le Xuan died in Rome. Tran, who is more well-known as Madame Nhu, was the sister-in-law of Ngo Dinh Diem and the wife of Ngo Dinh Dam, the president and chief adviser, ...

Education is a key priority in global development agendas and its importance among intergovernmental organisations like UNESCO, UNICEF, and WHO is beyond doubt. But the voices and worldviews of ethnic ...

Nurses wearing the starched white caps and uniforms long abandoned for utilitarian scrubs in much of the world volunteer to check the temperatures of migrant workers who are returning to Myanmar from ...

Findings from a nationwide survey commissioned by Yangon-based NGOs Colors Rainbow and &PROUD indicate that Myanmar’s general public are in favour of greater equality for the country’s LGBT* ...

Are Indonesia’s political parties all alike? Are some more in favour of political reform than others? Do some favour business interests while others see themselves as siding with the poor? And does it ...

If the next redelineation exercise does not address malapportionment, it may be the end of reconciliation efforts ...

On 23 May it will have been six years since the Maute group waved the Islamic State (IS) flag over the Islamic city of Marawi in the Philippines. The Maute group was a radical militant group, led by ...

In 1967, Operation Merdeka was initiated by the late President Ferdinand Marcos. The main objective was to annex Sabah for the Philippines. The legal basis of the operation was the claim of the Sultan ...