Southeast Asia

Hong Kong in the 1950s had a nomadic floating population that needed to be counted in the census – but how?

A history of the Philippines’ 7,000 islands from the pre-colonial era to the present day.

Leaked photographs of colonial atrocities during the Malayan ‘Emergency’ shocked postwar Britain.

Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?

Thailand’s monarchy is today one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful, but the king has faced a constant struggle for survival. 

The Thai-Burma railway was built by prisoners of war in appalling conditions. The dead were treated with a dignity denied to the living.

The story of Indonesia’s anti-Communist coup, the rise to power of a pro-western regime and its murderous aftermath.

The Indonesian genocide of 1965 has been smothered in silence for half a century.