Since the end of the Sino–Vietnamese War (part of the Third Indochina War) in 1989, the Vietnamese government has directed its attention towards development in northern border regions to strengthen ...

Nguyễn Thị Thu Huyền is an independent researcher based in Japan, with an academic background in history and anthropology. Huyền previously worked at VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities, ...

The nature of interactions between citizens and individual police officers make these officers the ultimate “street-level ...

The motivations behind these reforms—the renewed emphasis on language learning, a desire to see more Australian students up in the Indo-Pacific for longer duration experiences, and a rebalancing of ...

Paul Chambers looks back at the politicisation of the Royal Thai Police, before turning to the palace's recent personalisation of authority over an institution often overshadowed by the military.

Findings from a nationwide survey commissioned by Yangon-based NGOs Colors Rainbow and &PROUD indicate that Myanmar’s general public are in favour of greater equality for the country’s LGBT* ...

1932 is usually described as the beginning of Thailand’s century-long coup season. Once upon a time when I sought to determine when this history of coups began I was surprised to find obscure ...

Amidst the grapple with the COVID-19 recovery, President Joko Widodo’s ambitious $32 billion mega project to relocate the national capital continues. This mega project is one of a variety of ambitious ...

Why revealing photos of Thailand’s Crown Prince are making royalists anxious. From the Chulalongkorn period onwards, members of the Thai royal family liked to ship their children off to be educated in ...

In the past 130 years, the number of foreign migrant workers in Malaya has grown from about 84,000 in 1880 to more than three million in 2010. Originally, foreign workers were predominantly from China ...

One of the legacies Joko Widodo leaves Indonesia is a dramatically changed relationship between government and civil society. For the first decade and a half of the post-Suharto period, pro-democracy ...

How is the new monarch of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, ruling his kingdom since the death of his father, the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej? Fear. The overwhelming success of Bhumibol’s reign has ...