Malaysia Wrestles With Beijing’s One Belt One Road Bonanza
The sales office for Forest City, one of Malaysia’s largest residential property developments, looks less like an office than an airport hangar or a museum atrium: a futuristic dome flooded with noise and light.
One-Party Cambodia’s Grim Message
China-backed authoritarianism is on the rise in Cambodia as the influence of the US and other Western donor countries retreats
Cambodia Becomes the World’s Newest One-Party State
With strong Chinese support, Prime Minister Hun Sen has effectively destroyed all opposition to his autocratic rule.
‘Allah doesn’t care if you are transgender’: the Indonesian school fighting a backlash
An Islamic boarding school for transgender people in Yogyakarta is providing a safe haven amid a harsh crackdown on LGBT rights.
The Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, Democracy Icon
Turning “The Lady” into a secular saint only helped Myanmar’s junta.
After Ahok: Indonesia Grapples with the Rise of Political Islam
For decades, Indonesian society has experienced a slow process of Islamization. In 2017, the pace picked up.
The Past Isn’t Past
Lumphat seemed forsaken by time. Stretched out along a bend of the Srepok River, this former town was now little more than a village, a mere sprinkling of civilisation in a landscape of red earth and pantone blue skies.
Suharto Museum Celebrates a Dictator’s Life, Omitting the Dark Chapters
Indonesia’s former dictator looms in bronze over the entrance to the small museum set amid the palm trees and rice fields of central Java.
Ghosts of Pogroms Past Haunt Indonesia
After the jailing of Jakarta’s former governor, Chinese Indonesians find themselves caught between age-old prejudice and fears of a rising China.
Myanmar refugees find a foothold in North Carolina
For the Myanmar residents of Chapel Hill, hopes of a return home are tempered by fears of continued ethnic tensions
What a High-Level Sacking in Vietnam Reveals About Communist Party Rifts
Vietnam’s campaign against corruption notched a significant victory earlier this month with the removal of a top Politburo official for “very serious mistakes and violations” while he was chair of PetroVietnam, the state-owned oil and gas company. But analysts say that there is a more complicated story behind the rare Politburo sacking—just the fourth in...
