Southeast Asia

Richard Cavendish remembers the attempted coup against the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, in 1960.

The American soldiers who fought their way through the islands of the Pacific during the Second World War encountered fierce Japanese resistance but few local people. That all changed with the invasion of the Mariana Islands, says Matthew Hughes.

Richard Cavendish remembers how a former-British colony gained a long-serving leader.

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions.

Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons published in imperial Japan during the Second World War.

Burma – now Myanmar – became independent in 1948. Could Britain have done more for this unhappy country?

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

The US army’s mass murder of unarmed civilians at My Lai became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam War.

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