Philippine Senator Maria Josefa “Imee” Marcos-Manotoc has emerged as a tactically disruptive actor in the aftermath of the midterm elections held on 12 May. While her younger brother, President ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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”.

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, ...

Bunly Soeung serves as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Svay Rieng University. He is as a Research Fellow and core member of the Network of Friend of R2P-Cambodia at the Cambodian ...

Christopher Choong Weng Wai is Deputy Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute in Malaysia, and a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities ...

Franz Santos teaches History at the Ateneo de Manila University and Social Sciences at the Ateneo de Manila Senior High School. He is also a teacher-trainer for the Ateneo Center for Educational ...

Artist Chris Coles explores the world of Southeast Asian noir.