The characterisation of China as a “passive Black Knight” makes sense of this apparent dichotomy. While China will shore up ...

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, ...

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, ...

A recent report has touted the economic contributions of Grab and its related activities at nearly RM10 billion, or 0.5% of Malaysia’s GDP, in 2023. The foreword by Malaysia’s Minister of Digital ...

Patrick Peralta is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Michigan, where he is also a Rackham Merit Fellow and a Graduate Student Affiliate with the Center for Southeast Asian ...

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 ...

Tin Shine Aung is the Consulting Director at the Shwetaungthagathu Reform Initiative Centre (SRIc). SRIc conducts public policy research and analysis through its Sustainability Advocacy Lab to drive ...

Election results show that material comfort trumps civil liberties and political participation.

On 13 February a federal court in Argentina issued arrest warrants for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar’s State Administration Council (SAC), and Aung San Suu Kyi, the former State ...

New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...