On 11 March 2026, the first anniversary of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest and transfer to ICC custody, two scenes unfolded across the Philippines. In Manila, families of drug war victims gathered for ...

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.

Photo courtesy of Akshay Mahajan (Creative Commons licence) After a long period of relative silence, the most tragic period in Cambodia’s history has experienced a renaissance of interest. Spurred by ...

[This is a rough summary translation of our original post in Thai. New Mandala readers who can read Thai should go here for the full length article. The English spelling of names in this article are ...

A letter appeared on Yok’s* desk one morning, inviting her to an event at the state institution where she works. The event was a guest lecture entitled “The Monarchy and Thailand” by a group called ...

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* ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nurses wearing the starched white caps and uniforms long abandoned for utilitarian scrubs in much of the world volunteer to check the temperatures of migrant workers who are returning to Myanmar from ...

This piece is co-published with AcademiaSG, a scholarly site promoting scholarship of/by/for Singapore. Singapore’s public housing program is sui generis, un-replicable in its entirety anywhere.

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 ...

On 26 May 2012, Singapore’s attention will be focused on the Hougang constituency by-election between the Workers’ Party’s (WP) Png Eng Huat and the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) Desmond Choo. They ...