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Newsletter archive
2025
• Future Southeast Asia News [19 Nov 2025]
• Southeast Asia urban rail transit report – 2025 ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News [12 Nov 2025]
• Is Indonesia planning a Java-Bali high-speed railway?
• Future Southeast Asia News [5 Nov 2025]
• Penang construction update (2025 edition) ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News [29 Oct 2025]
• The last days of the DDR Apartments of Vinh
• Future Southeast Asia News [22 Oct 2025]
• Batam, not Bali, should be the financial hub of Indonesia
• Future Southeast Asia News [15 Oct 2025]
• Southeast Asia Railways Report (2025) ($)
• Turning Hat Yai into a great southern metropolis [News: 8 Oct 2025]
• Hat Yai construction and transport report – 2025 edition ($)
• Chiang Mai trip report [News: 1 Oct 2025]
• Chiang Mai construction and transport report – 2025 edition ($)
• Mapping every airport in Southeast Asia [News: 24 Sep 2025]
• Subscriber News: September 2025 ($)
• The proposed Chiang Mai subway system [News: 17 Sep 2025]
• Chiang Mai Metro System – Reviewing the routes of the 3 proposed transit lines
• How not to build a new city – Marina Bay City Lombok
• East Timor planes and dreams of trains [News: 10 Sep 2025]
• Future Southeast Asia News #281
• Airport rail links to Long Thanh International Airport
• Future Southeast Asia News #280
• Future Southeast Asia News #279
• Subscriber News: August 2025 ($)
• Ho Chi Minh City’s two airports’ problem
• Future Southeast Asia News #278
• What Yogyakarta can learn from Siem Reap (and vice versa) ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News #277
• Could the Philippines build a Pan-Philippine High-Speed Railway?
• Future Southeast Asia News #276
• Ho Chi Minh City’s unwelcoming airport bus
• Bridging the gaps of the Pan-Philippine Highway (News #275)
• Improving bus services between Da Nang and Hoi An
• Future Southeast Asia News #274
• Redrawing new districts and geographical zones in Ho Chi Minh City
• Future Southeast Asia News #273
• Makassar should be more like Singapore before being like Dubai ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News #272
• Why are there no great coastal cities in Indonesia?
• Future Southeast Asia News #271
• Bad Urban Design: Center Point of Indonesia, a missed opportunity to put Makassar on the map ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News #270
• Vietnam’s most provincial international beach city ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News #269
• Connecting Vietnam’s high-speed railway stations with urban rail transit
• Future Southeast Asia News #268
• Da Nang construction update – 2025 edition ($)
• Nha Trang metro and airport rail link (News #267)
• Future Southeast Asia News #266
• Tan Cang Station (HCMC Metro): Pedestrian access and future interchange
• Future Southeast Asia News #265
• Da Lat construction and transport report ($)
• Urban parks of Southeast Asia (News #264)
• Building pocket parks in Southeast Asia
• Future Southeast Asia News #263
• Vung Tau: The future beach district of Ho Chi Minh City ($)
• Future Southeast Asia News #262
• Penang Turf Club redevelopment: How Penang should look to Singapore for inspiration
• Pavements of Pattaya (News #261)
• Pattaya construction and transport report ($)
• 5 Years of the Future Southeast Asia Newsletter!
• Sihanoukville, the tourist city without tourists (News #260)
• How to fix Sihanoukville
• Merging provinces in Southeast Asia
• Myanmar earthquake news (News #259)
• Sri Racha Trip Report ($)
• Mapping every airport in Malaysia (News #258)
• Hanoi’s plan for public space around Hoan Kiem Lake
• The changing face of Bangkok (News #257)
• Bangkok construction update (2025 edition) ($)
• Air quality of Southeast Asia cities (News #256)
• Cleaning up roadside rubbish in Cambodia
• The provincial charms of Kampot and Kep in Cambodia (News #255)
• Kampot and Kep (Cambodia) construction and tourism development ($)
• Visiting Cambodia’s coastal casino city (News #254)
• Sihanoukville report: abandoned towers and seaside redevelopment ($)
• How not to build a high-speed railway (News #253)
• What Vietnam can learn from other high-speed rail projects
• The proposed Thailand-Laos rail bridge (News #252)
• Phnom Penh construction report ($)
• The map of Bangkok’s proposed transit lines (News #251)
• Technology contenders for the Vietnam high-speed railway
• 250th edition of the Future Southeast Asia Newsletter (News #250)
• Poipet trip report: Construction and urban development in Cambodia’s wild-west casino city ($)
• Southeast Asia transport and construction news (News #249)
• Ho Chi Minh City construction report ($)
• Penang’s LRT connecting Georgetown to the airport and train station (News #248)
• Southeast Asia Airport Report (2025 Edition) ($)
• Southeast Asia transport and construction news (News #247)
• More Future Southeast Asia in 2025 (News #246)
