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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2
FEBRUARY–APRIL 2020
ENVIRONMENT
CAMBODIA
FICTION
POEM
DIARY
3 Robert Templer
5 Sebastian Strangio
Everywhere, forever
City of light
6 Ashvinder Singh
A Flutter in the Colony by Sandeep Ray
7 Leung Rachel Ka Yin “deh”
8 Lok Man Law
Weary
BUSINESS
HONG KONG
9 Hsiao Mu
10 Paul French
Human capital
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
POEM Jennifer Eagleton
INTERVIEW
NOTEBOOK
MYANMAR
11 Michael Vatikiotis
14 Jeff Sparrow
15 Benjamin Zawacki
“Hong Kong Beauty Treatment 2019”
Wang Gungwu
Burning denial
Humanitarian breakdown
MYANMAR
GEOGRAPHY
JOURNAL
INDONESIA
MALAYSIA
INDONESIA
SHORT STORY
18 Joseph Woods
A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma by David Eimer
19 Peter A. Coclanis Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped
Asia’s History by Sunil Amrith
20 Michael Buckley
22 Lara Norgaard
High and dry
Kitchen Curse by Eka Kurniawan
23 Pauline Fan
Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong
24 Cedric Van Dijck Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading
Company by Multatuli
25 Becca Stine
“From the burning rabbit hole”
POETRY
29 Michael Freeman
ASIAN LIBRARY 30 James Weitz
NEIGHBOURHOOD 31 Jennifer Lindsay
A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
Thai drama
Rukun Tetangga
PROFILE
TRAVEL
FOOD
POEM
CINEMA
BOOKSELLER
32 Julia Winterflood
Genta Shimaoka and Sekar Wulandari Yogaster
34 Farah Abdessamad Down the Ganga
35 Mac de Faoite
Flying roti
36 Jack Malik
“Ipoh City of Love II”
37 David Scott Mathieson Thailand’s Movie Theatres: Relics, Ruins and the Romance of Escape by Philip Jablon
38 Kelly Falconer
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