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Dealing in death: Indonesia’s drug executions

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

Myruan Sukumaran (right), self portrait and portrait of fellow Australian death-row inmate, Andrew Chan. Image by Ben Quilty.

Indonesia: the quality of justice

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

Surviving Thingyan

Matt Carney explores the hazards of thingyan in Yangon.

Fair pay for Myanmar’s civil servants

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

Pol-la-muang: The making of superior Thais

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

Art, activism and saving sacred rivers

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

The double captivity of ‘Chinese privilege’

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

“Children of the revolution” to revolutionary grandchildren?

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

Strengthened sedition

The reforms to the Sedition Act bodes ill to Malaysia's democratisation process, concludes Amanda Whiting.

Strengthening sedition

Amanda Whiting investigates the use of the Sedition Act in Malaysia.

Fortifying authoritarian rule in Malaysia

Amanda Whiting argues that the Bill to reform Malaysia's Sedition Act strengthens the authorities further.

Southeast Asian Frontiers field course

Nicholas Farrelly reflects on an ANU field course about the Thailand-Myanmar borderlands