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Fracturing of Malay/Muslim parties has made it difficult to unite the Malay/Muslim electorate through ethnoreligious appeals.

No Malaysian election campaign is complete without these highlights of food, flags and swag, as the GE14 season enters its final days.

Street theatre and the wayang of politics merge one warm night in an urban battle about corruption big and small.

How much change, beyond Najib's ousting, does a Mahathir-led coalition represent? Or does an emboldened, victorious Najib mean political rebirths are redundant?

‘Thainess’ only truly laid down its roots at the end of the 1970s. ความเป็นไทยหรือการเป็นคนไทยเพิ่งจะลงหลักปักฐานจริงๆก็ในปลายทศวรรษ 1970 เท่านั้นเอง

Malaysia's GE14 marks the end of Malaysian Chinese politics after 60 years of dwindling and divisive outcomes, as its modern patron UMNO itself struggles to survive.

Thanathorn has made clear that the Future Forward Party has no intentions of being a Pheu Thai shadow.

Beyond the media hype, the new Indonesia Solidarity Party (PSI) isn’t much different from the conservative, oligarch-linked parties we’re used to.

Both sides of the political divide are trying to woo a vastly underestimated, non-homogenous rural Malay public.

The Australian National University's long running Myanmar Update series addresses the theme of 'Living with Myanmar' in 2019.

Social media is now central to any Malaysian election campaign. In 2018, the opposition is facing a far better organised incumbent than last time.