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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.

October 28, 2024
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Inaugurates Cabinet With Military-Style Retreat
By Sebastian Strangio

October 25, 2024
Indonesia to Push For Full BRICS Membership, New Foreign Minister Says
By Sebastian Strangio

October 25, 2024
Former Malaysian PM Najib Apologizes for 1MDB, Again Claims Innocence
By Sebastian Strangio

October 24, 2024
Rights Groups Call on Thai Government to Apprehend Tak Bai Accused
By Sebastian Strangio

October 24, 2024
Thai Authorities Cut Illegal Internet Cable Running Into Laos
By Sebastian Strangio

October 23, 2024
Son of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew Granted Asylum in UK
By Sebastian Strangio

October 22, 2024
Cambodian Court Refuses Bail For Detained Journalist Mech Dara
By Sebastian Strangio

October 22, 2024
Vietnam’s National Assembly Chooses Army General as President
By Sebastian Strangio

October 21, 2024
Small Explosion Damages Chinese Consulate in Mandalay
By Sebastian Strangio

October 21, 2024
Prabowo Subianto Sworn In As Indonesia’s Eighth President
By Sebastian Strangio

October 18, 2024
Vietnam Sentences Businesswoman to Life in Prison in Mega-Fraud Trial
By Sebastian Strangio
