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Sebastian Strangio
Sebastian Strangio is Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat.
In 2008, he began his career as a reporter at The Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, and has since traveled and reported extensively across the 10 nations of ASEAN. Sebastian’s writing has appeared in leading publications including Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times, The Diplomat, and Nikkei Asian Review, among many others. He is the author of “Hun Sen’s Cambodia” (Yale, 2014), a path-breaking examination of Cambodia since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century“ (Yale, 2020).
Alongside his journalistic work, Sebastian has also consulted for a wide variety of economic risk firms and non-government organizations, and is quoted frequently in the international media on political developments in Southeast Asia. Sebastian holds a B.A. and Master’s degree in international politics from The University of Melbourne. He currently lives in Adelaide.
You can get in touch with Sebastian via Twitter, Facebook, or email.

March 03, 2025
US, Japan Issue Travel Alerts for Thailand After Uyghur Deportation
By Sebastian Strangio

March 03, 2025
Myanmar Junta Chief to Meet with Vladimir Putin on Russia Trip
By Sebastian Strangio

February 28, 2025
Thai Opposition Party Files No-Confidence Motion Against PM Paetongtarn
By Sebastian Strangio

February 28, 2025
Leading Vietnamese Scholar and Journalist Imprisoned for Critical Facebook Posts
By Sebastian Strangio

February 27, 2025
Vietnam, New Zealand Announce Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
By Sebastian Strangio

February 27, 2025
Thai Deportation of Uyghurs Is Imminent, Rights Group Says
By Sebastian Strangio

February 26, 2025
Indonesia, Apple Agree Terms For Lifting iPhone Sales Ban: Report
By Sebastian Strangio

February 26, 2025
Cambodia Proposes Resumption of Joint Military Exercise With the US
By Sebastian Strangio

February 24, 2025
Philippines Removed From Watchdog’s Money-laundering ‘Grey List’
By Sebastian Strangio

February 24, 2025
Thai, Cambodian Police Rescue 215 Trafficked Scam Workers
By Sebastian Strangio

February 21, 2025
Vietnam’s National Assembly Approves $8B Rail Link to China
By Sebastian Strangio
