I n t e r e s t i n g NOT MANY PEOPLE like me. I have no friends. And I would like to know why. People begin friendly... By Murray Bail
Back Again Chain-smoking karang guni guy pushes his bike on the leftmost side, along the double yellow lines as taxis slither... By Stephanie Chan
Of Durians and Vipers BLACK AND YELLOW pit vipers lazed in durian trees, sleepy and fat under the Penang sun. Visitors to Mr... By Damyanti Biswas
Racial Amnesia IN RETROSPECT, IT was inevitable. But I know now there couldn’t have been a better place to have a... By Candice Chung
Abi nako THE PHRASE ABI NAKO has fascinated me since moving to Davao where I’ve had to make sense of the... By Jhoanna Lynn B Cruz
Bastard Child ‘MY MUM IS pretty devastated about it, you know,’ my friend says. ‘She completely trusted this man and then... By Elaine Laforteza
Where are all the nice Asian girls? STUART PICKS ME up from the train station. Because we are in the country, everything is close by so... By Michele Lee
Hero ‘WASN’T AH MA your hero? Didn’t you write about that somewhere?’ Robert asks, eyes locked ahead onto the black... By Lian Low
Islam, Capitalism, and Literature NEARLY SEVENTEEN YEARS after the fall of Suharto’s totalitarian New Order regime, Indonesia is a different nation, and many... By Okky Madasari
The Ghost in the Garden FOR GENERATIONS, THE Ghost languished in the garden of my nenek’s house. If you’ve ever been to Sungai Rokam,... By Ted Mahsun
The New Woman in the Old Flat THE PARSIS OWNED a lot of Karachi at Partition. They still owned a little of it.‘You can’t have the... By Shandana Minhas
Vacuum In 2013, there were 319,325 migrant workers in Hong Kong. About half were Indonesian and nearly all were women.... By Nicholas Wong