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February 2026
58th #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Monthly Updates
On 19 February, 2026 at 4-5pm (Bangkok Time), SEA Junction in collaboration with media partners, Mizzima and The Irrawaddy, will hold the 58th#WhatsHappeninginMyanmr.This update is the aim of contributing to a greater understanding of the crisis situation there for informed action in support of the democratic movement in the country and beyond. Since February 2021, Myanmar has been in turmoil as the Myanmar Army, known as Tatmadaw, detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint following a…
Find out more »Southeast Asia Mini Book and Craft Fair
Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book and craft fair focusing on Southeast Asia. For the books, three kinds of books are available: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm Book and River Book from Thailand, ISEAS from Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia. As a special highlight this month, there’s a restocking of books from Thai publishers. New and used books that are double…
Find out more »Book Discussion – Tai Magic by Susan Conway
On 21 February 2026 at 5-6.30 pm SEA Junction with support from the John F. Kennedy Foundation of Thailand is holding a public discussion of the newly revised book Tai Magic written by Susan Conway and published by Silkworm Books. Drawing on four years of extensive fieldwork in the Shan States and northern Thailand, Susan Conway provides a colorful picture of the people who create magic and explains how mystical remedies are prescribed and the rituals involved. This new edition…
Find out more »In Peril at Seas: Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia’s Blue Economy
For generations, the prosperity of Southeast Asia has been closely tied to its deep and productive relationship with the sea. Today, hundreds of millions of people depend on the region’s blue economy for their livelihoods, and the fisheries and seafood processing sectors remain central to economic growth. In recent decades, rapid but uneven socio-economic development has led to a growing reliance on migrant workers to fill labour shortages in these industries, as many nationals in richer economies turn away from…
Find out more »March 2026
Photo Exhibition “Life Stories of Klong Toey 2006 – 2026” by Yoonki Kim
Background Khlong Toey (meaning pandan leaf canal) is an urban district in Bangkok expressing the city profound socio-economic divides. Right in the heart of the capital and close to the main port, Khlong Toey hosts the city’s largest low-income community of about 100,000 people. Born in the 1950s on land owned by the Port Authority of Thailand out of a squatter settlement of migrants from the North and the North East of Thailand, it continues to expand as the need…
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