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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.
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May 10, 2021
COVID-19 Drives Uptake of Digital Payment Systems
By Sebastian Strangio

May 10, 2021
Myanmar Junta Labels Shadow Government ‘Terrorists’
By Sebastian Strangio

May 07, 2021
Myanmar Coup Forced Sharp Downturn in Business: Report
By Sebastian Strangio

May 07, 2021
Thai Government Readies Legal Shackles for Civil Society
By Sebastian Strangio

May 06, 2021
Can Myanmar’s New ‘People’s Defense Force’ Succeed?
By Sebastian Strangio

May 06, 2021
Trio of Cambodian Youth Imprisoned for Environmental Activism
By Sebastian Strangio

May 05, 2021
Indonesia Deploys Forces to Troubled Papua Region
By Sebastian Strangio

May 05, 2021
Norway’s Telenor Writes Off its Myanmar Operation Amid Crisis
By Sebastian Strangio

May 04, 2021
COVID-19 Stages Another Comeback in Vietnam
By Sebastian Strangio

May 04, 2021
Kachin Insurgents Shoot Down Myanmar Military Helicopter
By Sebastian Strangio

May 03, 2021
The Military Junta Has Driven Myanmar’s Journalists Back Underground
By Sebastian Strangio
