Tim Beal (Victoria): Korean Brinkmanship, American Provocation, and the Road to War: The Manufacturing of a Crisis. Tragedy and loss: Jim Taylor takes a look at the real face of Thailand today. Ellena Savage on the westernisation of Asian beauty. Japan spent more than two centuries shut off from the rest of the world and it still shows; Henry Tricks finds the Edo period still shimmering just under the surface. Burma’s gradual transition: With Aung San Suu Kyi’s release, slow process of change continues. From the Journal of Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo on China’s quest for democracy. From Inside Indonesia, a special issue on women and Islam. Catching the Bamboo Train: Rural Cambodians cobbled old tank parts and scrap lumber into an ingenious way to get around. The introduction to Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post-totalitarian Politics by Patrick McEachern. How East Asian relations worked in a long and lasting past: David C. Kang on his book East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute. A look at how deadly weapons continue to rule daily life in Laos. From Asia Sentinel, what's so free about Hong Kong and Singapore anyway? Vietnam's Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave, was only discovered twenty years and is just now being explored by a team of scientists. Evan Osnos on why China captures our imagination — and why we want to change it.
