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Can Jokowi recover from Australian and international outrage?

Angie Ngoc Tran examines the causes and consequences of a recent strike of over 90,000 Vietnamese workers for social insurance justice.

In his Myanmar Times column this week, Nicholas Farrelly considers Myanmar's ever-shifting picture of reform

The case of drug offenders on death row shows that a lack of compassion in Indonesia and Australia wins the day (and ends lives).

Insight on drugs, the death penalty and the execution of foreigners in Indonesia

When it comes to drugs, it's death for foreigners and leniency for locals, writes Hamish McDonald.

Matt Carney explores the hazards of thingyan in Yangon.

In his Myanmar Times column this week, Nicholas Farrelly analyses pay-rates for Myanmar officials

A new social class, with high morals, lavish salaries, and anti-majoritarian missions, will probably do Thailand more harm than good

Activist-journalist Myint Zaw has won the ‘Green Nobel’ for his campaign to save Myanmar's Irrawaddy river through art.

Masturah Alatas explores the contentious notion of "Chinese privilege" in Singapore

Ruediger Korff examines the challenges of generational change in Southeast Asia.