Max Walden works for an international development NGO in Indonesia and is a Research Assistant with the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre at the University of Sydney.

Ross Tapsell is Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's School of Culture, History and Language and Director of the ANU Malaysia Institute. He researches digital technologies and their ...

Nick Nostitz lived and worked in Thailand for 23 years as a photojournalist and writer, and has contributed extensively to New Mandala’s coverage of Thai political life and conflict since 2008. His ...

After the 1962 coup in Myanmar (then known as Burma), one of the first steps taken by General Ne Win was to “revamp and reorganise” the country’s military intelligence apparatus. According to the ...

Haironesah Domado is a development practitioner from Mindanao, Southern Philippines, and is a Maranao Muslim. She has extensive development experience in conflict affected areas in the Philippines, ...

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 ...

Liam Gammon is the editor of New Mandala and Research Fellow at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at the Australian National University (ANU), where he also sits on the editorial board of ...

Nurhisham Hussein is a Malaysian economist and General Manager, Economics and Capital Markets at Employees Provident Fund.

Phacharaphorn Phanomvan is a DPhil student in Economic History at the University of Oxford. She specialises in pre-15th century CE Asian economies, and urbanisation. She holds a masters in global ...

Kean Wong is Contributing Editor at New Mandala, overseeing Malaysia's 2018 elections. Contact him with tips and submissions at [email protected], and via @keanmwong at Twitter and Instagram.

This is just a short and sweet message to let you know that New Mandala is taking a break for the Australian Christmas and New Year holidays and will resume publishing after 20 January 2025. I want to ...

Tom Pepinsky is an associate professor in the government department and a faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University. He studies comparative politics and political economy, ...