| 2 | Director's note: Taking over... Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS) |

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| 1 & 4 | Illegal but licit Itty Abraham |
| 3 | The borderlands of legality Willem van Schendel |
| 5 | Beyond hills and plains: rethinking trade, state and society in the upper Mekong borderlands Andrew Walker |
| 6 | Smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier Eric Tagliacozzo |
| 7 | Deep pockets: notes on the Indonesian cockfight in a globalising world Johan Lindquist |
| 8-9 | Hawala Roger Ballard |
| 10 | The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons Nicolas Florquin |
| 11 | The rumour of trafficking Diana Wong |
| 12-13 | Transnational migration brokerage in southern China Li Minghuan |
| 13 | Beware of the data Melvin Soudijn |
| 14 | Cash cows: milking Indian students in Australia Michiel Baas |
| 15 | When the Korean Wave ripples Roald Maliangkay |
| 16 | Crossing boundaries: Bangladeshi sex workers in Calcutta Malini Sur |
| 17 | Women and borders in militarised northeast India Paula Banerjee |
| 18-19 | The mysterious whereabouts of the cut-pieces: dodging the film censors in Bangladesh Lotte Hoek |
| 20-21 | Conflict and illegality as a way of life: the paradox of Burma Martin Smith |

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| 23 | Books received |
| 24-25 | A personal account of what I did during my stay at IIAS, or why I remained a cultural anthropologist Satoshi Nakagawa |
| 26 | Filming fire rituals in Nepal Bal Gopal Shrestha and Wendy van Wilgenburg |
| 27 | The resource curse: oil-based development in Central Asia Mehdi Parvizi Amineh |
| 28-29 | History and the inequality predicament David Ludden |
| 30 | A Manchad grammar Suhnu Ram Sharma |
| 30 | The lure of (prosodic) typology Bert Remijsen |
| 31 | Creating a database for Tibeto-Burman languages Katia Chirkova |
| 32 | Forest commons vs the state? Thomas Sikor and Tran Ngoc Thanh |
| 33 | International Convention of Asia Scholars 5 |
| 34 | IIAS fellows |
| 35 | IIAS research |
| 36-37 | Announcements |
| 38-39 | International conference agenda |