The disciplinary study of art history has been in crisis for some time. One of the premises of Roger Nelson’s remarkable ...

British photographer Colin Grafton’s exhibition Cambodia 1972–1975 opened at the art gallery of the SOSORO Museum of Money and Economy in Phnom Penh in August 2025. It was one of the few projects ...

On 22 September 2026, the Indonesian parliament struck the gavel to enact the Law on Agrarian Reform (UU Reforma Agraria), marking an important milestone in Indonesia’s long struggle for agrarian ...

On 12 November 1994, a group of 29 young Timorese men gathered to protest outside the US embassy in Jakarta. They were there to make sure the world did not forget what happened at the Santa Cruz ...

On 18 June 2026, a Mandarin-dubbed version of Dear You, a mainland Chinese production shot largely in Teochew, opened in Singapore theatres. Guidelines administered by the Infocomm Media Development ...

[This is a rough summary translation of our original post in Thai. New Mandala readers who can read Thai should go here for the full length article. The English spelling of names in this article are ...

In 1967, Operation Merdeka was initiated by the late President Ferdinand Marcos. The main objective was to annex Sabah for the Philippines. The legal basis of the operation was the claim of the Sultan ...

One of the legacies Joko Widodo leaves Indonesia is a dramatically changed relationship between government and civil society. For the first decade and a half of the post-Suharto period, pro-democracy ...

Defying expectations and previous patterns, in the midterm elections held on 12 May the Filipino electorate generated neither dominance to any single political bloc nor a clear two-way split between ...

The motivations behind these reforms—the renewed emphasis on language learning, a desire to see more Australian students up in the Indo-Pacific for longer duration experiences, and a rebalancing of ...