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

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

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

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 ...

On 18 June 2026, a Mandarin-dubbed version of Dear You, a mainland Chinese production shot largely in Teochew, opened in Singapore theatres. Guidelines administered by the Infocomm Media Development ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the rationales underlying the persecution of the Rohingya by the Burmese state is that they are “illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, having flooded Rakhine State (formerly known, and referred ...

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 ...