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Playing Jenga with Myanmar’s rule of law

How intermediaries are morphing ideas of law and justice.

Indonesia’s forgotten genocide

Fear still reigns 50 years after failed coup and mass killings.

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Photo: Ernest Chua/ Today

The Tharman effect

Is Singapore ready for a non-Chinese leader?

Crystal balls and change in Myanmar

How scenario development can help chart the country's uncertain future.

Independence and interventions

Australia’s 1999 mission to East Timor and lessons for today.

ASEAN can learn from Europe’s refugee crisis

Refugee crises must be met by the power and spirit of regionalism.

Australia, asylum and ghosts of the past

A look at the 1970s' Indochinese crisis reveals a dark trend.

A poppy field in Myanmar. Photo: UNODC.

Tackling Myanmar’s opium trade

Forget the war on drugs; its regional solutions that count, writes Charlie Artingstoll.

NLD needs to lift the standard

Myanmar voters have low expectations based on a lifetime of disappointment with politics

Royal power in Thai politics

How the King can leave a lasting legacy for Thailand's people.

Vietnam’s rising repression

Clampdowns on dissent more targeted, smarter, writes Zachary Abuza.

Development and drugs in Myanmar

How alternative crops can help stop Myanmar’s opium trade.