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Cambodia exports can get high on cannabis

Making cannabis legal could be a real export boon, writes Jim Plamondon.

Is working legally a win-win for refugees in Malaysia?

Is the new scheme a step in the right direction?

The Art of Dating in Javanese History

How the Javanese turn chronology into a beautiful artform.

Echoes of past violence haunt Indonesia

Is history repeating itself in Indonesia?

A festival of the deprecated spirit lords of Burma

Irfan Kortschak takes an up close look at Myanmar's nat pwe debaucheries.

Myanmar bibliographies and booklists

Popular and recommended reading on the Southeast Asian nation.

Bersih 5 and the increase of the Malay discontents

What does an increased Malay turnout in the recent demonstrations signify?

The human cost of Duterte’s drug war

Why the war on drugs needs to acknowledge the human and social dimension.

Echoes through time

The evolution of Burmese classical since the 19th century.

The east is red

Why Southeast Asia is now firmly in the grip of China.

Travels with Des Ball

Former student Cam Hawker reflects on his time in Southeast Asia with acclaimed scholar Des Ball.

Professor Des Ball AO: the insurgent intellectual

Nicholas Farrelly pays tribute to one of the world's leading strategic studies scholars.