I ask them to turn off their laptops and phones, then take out a blank sheet of paper. When they are ready, I ask them all to draw me a map of South-east Asia - from Myanmar all the way to Vietnam ...

The itinerary suggested before the pandemic by Lonely Planet, a publisher of guide books, for travellers wishing to see the “best of South-East Asia” was an eight-week adventure through the ...

As an undergraduate taking a course on South-east Asia nearly four decades ago, I was assigned a map exercise. Handed a blank map of South-east Asia, the class was asked to mark a list of cities ...