On 28 June approximately 4.5 million voters in Bangkok will choose a new governor and Bangkok Metropolitan Council. On the surface the outcome looks predictable: polls consistently show incumbent ...
20 years ago today, Andrew Walker’s post “Some thoughts on the political crisis in Thailand” became the first piece of writing to appear at New Mandala. It was a different era for Southeast Asia, and ...
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 ...
Richard Yarrow researches economic policy in China and Southeast Asia. He is based at the University of Tokyo and Harvard and Princeton universities. He was previously a visiting scholar at the ...
Thum Ping Tjin is founder of New Naratif (www.newnaratif.com), a movement to democratise democracy in Southeast Asia. He works on Malayan nationalism and, more ...
In Thailand, the military’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program (Ruk Sa Din Daen—หลักสูตรรักษาดินแดน [ร.ด.]) is something ordinary people are intimately familiar with. Roughly 15% of Thai high ...
Editor’s note: this piece was first published by AcademiaSG, a scholarly site promoting scholarship of/by/for Singapore. Its contents draw on the author’s book The Albatross Files Unredacted: What the ...
Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city ...
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