southeast asia

What Next for Thailand?

By Charlie Campbell

Thai Army Chief Calls Political Foes After Power Grab

By Charlie Campbell

Vietnamese PM: Fight On for the Fatherland, Just Do It Legally

By David Stout

The Last Time China Got Into a Fight With Vietnam, It Was a Disaster

By David Stout
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China Is Already Acting Like a Superpower

As Beijing appears to be openly enforcing territorial claims in the South China Sea, following a skirmish with Vietnam over a Chinese oil rig that left six people injured, one expert says a historic "moment of confrontation" has arrived

By David Stout

Obama Ends Asia Tour in China’s Long Shadow

The region's biggest power remained the proverbial dragon in the room throughout the U.S. President's weeklong tour to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines. But the more he said the visits weren't about China, the less that rang true

By Emily Rauhala / Beijing

Indonesia's Elections Feature Plenty of Women

The world’s largest Muslim-majority nation has imposed a strict quota on women standing in this year’s parliamentary elections, but critics say the plethora of celebrities and political scions show they are pawns manipulated to prop up the established elite

By Yenni Kwok

Gunmen Kidnap Two Women From a Malaysian Resort

Sino-Malaysian relations are already fraying in the wake of protests over missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The abduction of a Chinese holidaymaker is only going to make things worse

By Charlie Campbell

Burma's Racist Census Degenerates Into Violence

Burma is refusing to allow Rohingya to register in its census, and anti-Rohingya mobs have gone on the rampage, believing that aid workers are too sympathetic to the persecuted Muslim minority

By Charlie Campbell

Southeast Asia Declared Free of Polio

The world's second most-populous nation, as well as the whole of southeast Asia, has been officially certified as free of the disease

By Maddy Fry

The Haze in Indonesia Has Just Made 30,000 People Sick

Slash and burn farming is generating huge amounts of pollution

By David Stout

LIFE Covers: The War in Vietnam

On the 50th anniversary of the military coup that deposed South Vietnamese President Diem, we look back at LIFE magazine's Vietnam War-related covers from the '60s and early '70s.

By Ben Cosgrove
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