SOUTHEAST ASIA

Malaysia: will new government bring real change?

Challenger promising to improve civic space comes to power – but political volatility is likely to continue

Indonesia: fuel price protests at high-handed government

Country the latest in global wave of economic protests

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Singapore: belated recognition of LGBTQI+ rights

Sex between men decriminalised – but state moves to block progress on equal marriage

Rohingya refugees: still far from home

Struggle of the Rohingya people continues six years on from campaign of violence that made them refugees

Thailand: king’s critics criminalised

Thailand’s democracy activists are being criminalised for questioning royal power

Philippines: democracy in mourning

Alliance of two autocratic dynasties takes power after glorifying repressive past

Indonesia: breakthrough on gender-based violence

Long-term civil society advocacy pays off with passing of law against forced marriage and sexual abuse

Myanmar: junta’s economic power in the firing line

Businesses that prop up military rule under pressure to withdraw

Myanmar: health workers in the military’s firing line

Military dictatorship turns oxygen supplies into a weapon