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Avatar: Forms of Vishnu at the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents 200 artworks spanning 1,500 years, from international and Australian collections.
Both countries claim overlapping parts of the Gulf of Thailand with potentially lucrative oil and gas reserves. There is a peaceful path to resolve the dispute.
Not all victims of scam compounds are unwilling —and that’s what makes the system so hard to dismantle.
Framing returnees as potential criminals is politically convenient but counterproductive. It leads to victims being reluctant to go to authorities to ask for help.
Thousands of people from Indonesia, China and Africa are waiting for help to return home, but the process has been slow and many are increasingly desperate.
The conflict between Thailand and Cambodia has resumed, and there is little sign it will end soon.
Six scholars with experience in 15 countries provide lessons on best practices for documenting atrocities and elevating the voices of victims and survivors.
Family names provide continuity that other political structures in south-east Asia often cannot.
A recent repatriation from Australia to Cambodia shows how this process can reinforce oppressive powers, and further marginalize the historically oppressed.
Trump is keen to portray himself as a global peacemaker.
A nationwide crackdown in July led to 3,000 arrests. But large scam operators seem to have been left untouched.
The US president doesn’t appear to have sufficient leverage or an experienced enough team to solve the more complex conflicts.
Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia over a disputed border area have flared, with a quick diplomatic resolution looking unlikely.
Bird flu returns to Cambodia after decade-long lull.
In Alice Pung’s family, love was imbued with anxiety and fear. But in books, adults had reasoned discussions and talked to children as if their thoughts mattered.
Thailand’s domestic political situation is heating up on the back of a border conflict with Cambodia.
Their jobs were difficult enough already.
Sophal Ear, a Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child, reflects on 50 years since the murderous regime took control.
The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
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Professor of International Human Rights, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University
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PhD Candidate in Technology Facilitated Modern Slavery, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Manager of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University
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