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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

Reading Myanmar politics in 2015

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly has a new column at The Myanmar Times

ANU Thai Studies Conference

Thongchai Winichakul stars in an exciting lineup at the ANU Thai Studies Conference on 30 April and 1 May 2015.

Malaysia after Hudud: Prospects for democracy and moderation

An interesting event discussing the implementation of Hudud in Malaysia.

America needs Thai style democracy

Occasional New Mandala contributor Nuat Namman calls on foreign commentators to take a less simplistic approach to American democracy

Burma and the Kipling mystique

Andrew Selth analyses the influence of the bard of the British Empire, Rudyard Kipling

A hopeful moment for civil society in Myanmar

Andrew Morgan looks closely at the changing landscape for civil society in the years after direct military rule

Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew

Will there be poetry or pragmatism now the CEO of Singapore Inc is gone?

Social media machinations in Vietnam

Huong Le Thu suggests that in Vietnam the Communist Party has recognized how social media can be a very efficient tool

Kokang 2015: Unknown unknowns

Eisel Mazard reflects on the limited global appetite for understanding obscure wars in distant places