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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

Shooting the messengers? Journalists in Indonesia

A new book on Australian journalists in Indonesia poses some tough questions about the bi-lateral relationship. Hamish McDonald reports.

What we’ve got here is failure to communicate

Megawati takes a swipe at her party's president at the PDI-P congress in Bali.

Vale Pamela Gutman

Trevor Wilson pays tribute to one of Australia's great Burma scholars