Expensive readers,
From at present New Mandala is taking a number of weeks off for the Australian summer time holidays. Emails to our editors will get a response from 9 January 2023.
It’s been one other enormous 12 months at New Mandala, and I hope that readers discovered the positioning to be a helpful useful resource. On behalf of former editor Elly Kent, who managed New Mandala for almost all of 2022, and all people else concerned behind the scenes right here, I’d like to increase a particular due to all the contributors who took the time from their busy schedules to contribute to the general public debate on Southeast Asian affairs.
For many people within the Asia Pacific that is the primary Christmas and new 12 months celebrations the place worldwide journey has been a chance, and I’m positive there are numerous readers who’re reuniting with family members after being aside for too lengthy. Whether or not they’re at house or away, New Mandala needs all of our readers a protected and stress-free break, and sit up for bringing you extra new views on Southeast Asia in 2023.
Liam Gammon | the editor
New Mandala’s high 10 most learn in 2022
1: “Red-tagging as a human rights violation in the Philippines” by Teo S. Marasigan
2: “COVID-19 and a new social contract for education in the Philippines” by Chester Yacub and Pauline Eadie
3: “We need to talk! Art, offence and politics in Documenta 15” by Wulan Dirgantoro and Elly Kent
4: “Effective third-sector actors in aid on the Thailand-Myanmar border” by Maung Oak Aww [pseudonym]
5: “Thailand’s long-anticipated submarine deal has hit yet another snag” by Zachary Abuza
6: “Digital contention in post-coup Myanmar” by Megan Ryan and Van Tran
7: “A ‘Pangulo’ ideology: leader-centrism and the return of a Marcos presidency” by Matthew Ordoñez and Anthony Lawrence Borja
8: “Brewing for democracy: digital activism & the #MilkTeaAlliance” by Maggie Shum
9: “Myanmar’s anti-junta forces are terrorists, says the Institute for Economics and Peace” by Dorothy Mason