This week’s student protests are part of a backlash against a monarchist elite trying to erase Thailand’s democratic history.

Just few years ago, Myanmar (also called Burma) was widely seen as an international success story.

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.

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.

At the center of gravity shifts east, Pankaj Mishra argues that the West’s own fateful experience of modernity is playing out globally

When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: ‘Chuob Samlap’ – literally, ‘Meet Kill.’

For five years, this remote town on the China-Laos border has lived in the shadow of more prosperous times.

Forty years after the war, it is the ideals of the former South Vietnam that appear ascendant.

A verdict was never reached in Ieng Sary’s human rights abuses case. His story reveals the limitations of international tribunals.

Vladivostok, a Pacific port city long in decline, is being revitalized by Moscow. But the city’s slow integration with China, Japan, and South Korea is clashing with its long-Slavic identity. Can a city be both European and Asian?