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While governments since at least Rama VI have defined Thainess by the ideology of nation-religion-king, comparing editions of the Royal Institute Dictionaries shows the changing meanings of these words.

International donors need to own up to their own roles in the ongoing Lao hydropower tragedy.

How did royalist, nationalist and anti-democratic forces overwhelm the originally heterogenous yellow-shirt movement?

Whatever new form of governance emerges from the Bangsamoro Organic Law, it will still confront security challenges as serious as ever.

CPP organisational and informational dominance over its rivals has been palpable.

What has and hasn't changed about how the media report on politics and policy after GE14?

President Duterte’s use of Bisaya is a push back against Imperial Manila’s dominance. But it is also creating new hierarchies of language of its own.

PoP reviews an important new book on the relationship between feminism and visual art in Indonesia

Revolutionary music can be a window into the social foundations of Myanmar’s Ethnic Armed Organisations.

President Duterte's trust rating lies at 89% in Mindanao. It's time to listen to the voice of the other 11%.