Thai Monuments Are Disappearing in the Dead of Night
This week’s student protests are part of a backlash against a monarchist elite trying to erase Thailand’s democratic history.
Thai Politics Has a Princess but No Storybook Endings
With elections coming, the junta still fears the specter of Thaksin Shinawatra.
Turning east
By most accounts, the past few years have been anni horribiles for human rights and democracy in Southeast Asia.
The King Is Dead. Is Thailand’s Monarchy Next?
Thailand’s revered king held the country together for more than 70 years. But his son’s succession could threaten everything he built.
The Strongman of Siam
With Thailand’s ailing monarch fading from the scene, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha is positioning the military to rule indefinitely — by silencing all dissent.
REVIEW: ‘The Ideal Man’, by Josh Kurlantzick
On Easter Sunday 1967, Jim Thompson, a prominent businessman and Bangkok expatriate, disappeared while on holiday in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands. The 61-year-old American left his bungalow to take a solitary hike in the hills and never returned.
All aboard North Korea’s refugee railroad
PHNOM PENH – In late November 2006, after a long, perilous journey from northeast China, a North Korean national crossed the Vietnamese frontier into Cambodia’s northeast Mondulkiri province. The man, identified only as Ly Hai Long in local media reports, was promptly arrested by Cambodian police, who told a reporter from the Cambodia Daily that...
Family Matters
On Sunday, Thailand will elect a new prime minister who belongs to a very familiar, and deeply divisive, family.
Will Thais Say Yes To Thaksin’s Little Sister?
There’s plenty of pageantry and talk of reconciliation but this weekend’s election in Thailand may be one of the most divisive in decades, writes Sebastian Strangio
Hun Sen’s war calculations
PHNOM PENH—Fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border continued over the weekend after two agreed ceasefires broke down last week. At least 17 people have been killed and 50,000 evacuated on both sides of the border since the latest round of armed skirmishes and diplomatic salvos commenced on April 22. Some analysts now wonder whether the sustained...
Thailand’s domestic politics drives Cambodian border clash
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia–Since the morning of April 22, Thai and Cambodian troops have waged a series of heated firefights along sections of their shared border. The two sides have now traded artillery and small-arms fire for a week, leaving at least 13 soldiers dead on both sides and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands...
