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Beer barons and ballads in Myanmar

Luke Corbin looks at the spillover from fluid copyright laws and nationalism.

Unity in (sexual) diversity?

Indonesia's five 'founding' principles wrongly used to deny rights to same-sex people, writes Kate Walton.

Hope and reality in a new Myanmar

Trevor Wilson surveys the country's prospects under its new government.

The NLD’s iron-fisted gerontocracy

The party's cone of silence isn’t a departure from old-style dictatorial practice, writes Nicholas Farrelly.

Living in sin in Singapore?

What the ban of shisha says about vice and morality in the island nation.

Myanmar’s future can be built in the interim

Engaging local people in the short-term is key to ongoing peace and change.

The rise and rise of Muslim politics

Political Islam will shape Malaysia more and more, argues Kok-Hin Ooi.

Southeast Asian snapshots

Sordid shenanigans from Australia and more silliness in our region.

Elections, parties and decentralisation in Cambodia

Reform and not clampdowns the way to win voters' trust, writes Scott Rawlinson.

The trouble with Thailand’s new democracy

Anti-junta movement needs to expand in order to dismantle dictatorship, writes Jim Taylor.

Tackling the region’s policy challenges

New issue of Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies available for free now.

Predicting Myanmar’s next president

Chit Win narrows down the field to identity the most likely candidate.