Southeast Asia

The independent Federation of Malaya came into being on August 31st, 1957.

Kendrick Oliver revisits the scene of a crime that became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam war.

How the South-East Asian peninsula had been shaped before French colonial rule.

Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.

Ben Kiernan points out the progress, and difficulties, in recovering history and justice after genocide.

Richard Cavendish describes the French defeat in Indochina, on May 7th, 1954.

Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past.

Jessica Harrison-Hall introduces the upcoming exhibition of Vietnamese art at the British Museum.

On the 60th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, arguably the nadir of Anglo-Australian relations, Richard Wilkinson explores the strange relationship between the two countries in the last century.

Tony Stockwell looks behind the exotic facade to examine the role of the kings of Siam and Thailand in modernising their country.