In 1975, Vietnam emerged from a brutal war that by government estimates claimed the lives of 1.1 million soldiers and 2 million civilians. In its aftermath, the Communist Party-led government was ...

Khánh Linh Lê is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science and the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego. Her research examines the dynamics of ...

Last year New Mandala was pleased to be able to introduce our Emerging Scholar Award, an initiative aimed at promoting the dissemination of outstanding PhD research on Southeast Asia to a global ...

In 2016, Philippine Congresswoman Geraldine Roman became the first openly transgender woman elected to a national legislature in Asia. Her election received international media attention and was ...

Ryan Gem is a researcher, writer, educator, and advocate for more inclusive and representative democracies. He is currently the Learning & Evaluation Manager at People Powered, a global hub for ...

Indonesia’s labour unions refer to the new omnibus legislation proposed by the government as RUU Cilaka, which sounds like the Bahasa Indonesia word for “wretched”.

At the end of 1992 after the dissolution of powerful friend the Soviet Union, the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, a major organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with responsibility for ...

The author is a student at the Australian National University.

Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, ...

On Friday 28 March at 5:40pm in Australia, I received a Telegram message from my mother, back home in Yangon, in our family chat. She said “Hi”, and I responded back, “hello”. The next message was, ...

Jeremy Lim is a PhD candidate at the University of Malaya and the editor of a progressive Malaysian publication, Jentayu. He holds a MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His ...