The disciplinary study of art history has been in crisis for some time. One of the premises of Roger Nelson’s remarkable ...

The Vietnam–Saudi Arabia BLA came during period of relative openness Vietnamese civil society’s labour advocacy activities that had begun in the early 2000s. Labour newspapers and global NGOs stepped ...

In Western educational discourse, heading abroad for university is frequently imagined as an exercise in personal ...

British photographer Colin Grafton’s exhibition Cambodia 1972–1975 opened at the art gallery of the SOSORO Museum of Money ...

On 22 September 2026, the Indonesian parliament struck the gavel to enact the Law on Agrarian Reform (UU Reforma Agraria), marking an important milestone in Indonesia’s long struggle for agrarian ...

On 12 November 1994, a group of 29 young Timorese men gathered to protest outside the US embassy in Jakarta. They were there to make sure the world did not forget what happened at the Santa Cruz ...

Chin Peng, born Ong Boon Hua, 21 October 1924 to 16 September 2013 The passing of Chin Peng in Bangkok on 16 September 2013 brings to an end one of the longest of Asian political biographies. Chin ...

Some of the most important starting points in the study of Southeast Asia are those moments when significant recalibrations of economic or social policy occur. In Vietnam, back in 1986, the ruling ...

In 1967, Operation Merdeka was initiated by the late President Ferdinand Marcos. The main objective was to annex Sabah for the Philippines. The legal basis of the operation was the claim of the Sultan ...

In mid-2025, both an armed military conflict and an economic conflict broke out between Cambodia and Thailand. The border conflict—which involved land and aerial fights and threats of a naval blockade ...

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 ...