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Police officials and rescue workers inspect damage after a truck bomb exploded outside a building housing police officers and their families in Muang, a district of southern Thailand’s Narathiwat province, Nov. 22, 2022. One person died and more than two dozen were injured in the attack, the provincial governor said.

In 2023, expect more violence in Thailand’s insurgency-hit Deep South

Violent incidents in 2022 point to rebels’ frustration with the government paying lip service to the peace process, analyst Zachary Abuza writes.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (right) sits with his deputies, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (center) and Fadillah Yusof, after the swearing-in ceremony of the country's new cabinet at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 3, 2022.

In Anwar’s cabinet, stability trumps reform

A father carries his son who holds a Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) flag as he campaigns for PAS’ political coalition, Perikatan Nasional, in Permatang Pauh, Penang, Malaysia, Nov. 18, 2022.

Watch out for Malaysia’s ‘green wave’

A crowd greets a bus carrying prisoners released from Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 17, 2022.

Myanmar junta looks to placate ASEAN with prisoner releases

2022-11-17

Construction workers labor at a site in Shanghai, China, Oct. 14, 2022.

Southeast Asia will feel economic, political fallout from more powerful Xi Jinping

2022-10-26

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