Climate

Climate strikes Striking out

Across the world, teenagers are striking to protest the climate crisis. We look at why the region’s own stand against the fossil fuel industry is so important By Andrew Haffner

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Read more of our decade-long coverage of the climate crisis.

CLIMATE CRISIS

Words of warning

Claire Baker-Munton

MASS EXTINCTION

How to save the world

Philip Bethge

PARIS CLIMATE TALKS

A region in crisis

Nithin Coca

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16 September 2019
THIS WEEK IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Up in smoke.

This week we’re looking at the legacy of Thaksin’s 2006 overthrow, what the global climate strike means for Southeast Asia and what happens to Cambodian families when their main breadwinner passes away.

ALSO THIS WEEK

SUPERNATURAL

Singapore’s ghost hunters

David Hutt

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE

THAI POLITICS

Waiting in the wings

Pavin Chachavalpongpun

POVERTY IN CAMBODIA

Houses divided

Veng Sonita

THAI POLITICS

A nation on hold

Giles Ji Ungpakorn

CLIMATE STRIKES

Striking out

Andrew Haffner

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Power

Political reporting and analysis on the big questions facing the region.
This week marks 50 years since the death of Vietnam’s legendary Ho Chi Minh. We look at the legacy of the revolutionary and his ideals into the 21st century.

Power • STORY OF THE DAY • May 03, 2018 • 9 min read

Vietnam Money trumps Marx

By David Hutt • May 03, 2018
Two centuries after the birth of Karl Marx, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has embraced capitalism with open arms – but its economic success has yet to trickle down to its working class

Power • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 25, 2018 • 7 min read

Ho Chi Minh’s Hollywood A Vietnamese dream

By Janelle Retka • Jul 25, 2018
Award-winning US filmmaker and producer Timothy Linh Bui relocated his company Happy Canvas Film to his ancestors’ homeland. Since then, his team has been providing a new take on the Southeast Asian country for the world to see

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Money

Business insights and innovation, from industry to entrepreneurs.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced a ban on all online gambling in the Kingdom by the end of 2019. Read our coverage of the real cost of Cambodia’s casinos.

Money • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 03, 2019 • 18 min read

Casinos Show me the money

By Robin Spiess • Jun 03, 2019
As dozens of casinos set up shop in Cambodia each year, they stand to make millions annually – but the Kingdom has yet to rake in its fair share of the industry’s rising profits

Money • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 25, 2019 • 12 min read

Land rights Cambodia for sale

By Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy and Peter Harris • Jun 25, 2019
From our print archive: In the 18 months leading up to 2008, almost half of Cambodia had been leased to foreign speculators – and many who fled the Khmer Rouge are homeless once more

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE

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Life

Putting people at the heart of the story.
Protests against half a century of Indonesian occupation are raging across Papua. We look at the modern-day fighters leading the separatist struggle.

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 15, 2019 • 13 min read

West Papua Whose history?

By Evie Breese • Aug 15, 2019
Fifty years after the western part of New Guinea was incorporated into Indonesia, this event has become a battleground for competing versions of history. As the region’s next generation grows up surrounded by conflict, their struggle to speak their truth continues

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 16, 2019 • 15 min read

West Papua Choosing to act

By Thomas Brent • Aug 16, 2019
In 1969, Indonesia took control of resource-rich West Papua through a referendum many Papuans call the ‘Act of No Choice’. A half century on, activists are opening a new front in their struggle for self-determination

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Earth

How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.
China’s sweeping Belt and Road Initiative could be putting the the Paris climate goals out of reach. We look at how to balance infrastructure investment with the environment.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 05, 2018 • 15 min read

Renewable energy The price of power

By Amanda Kaufmann • Sep 05, 2018
The deadly dam collapse in Laos in 2018 brings Cambodia’s own grand plans for hydropower into question – and thrusts solar power to the forefront of the Kingdom’s quest for energy independence

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 03, 2018 • 9 min read

dam collapse Laos gambles on becoming ‘battery of Southeast Asia’

By Thomas Brent • Aug 03, 2018
The collapse of a hydroelectric dam in Laos last week has reinvigorated a debate on the potential consequences of the country’s fervent building of dams, leaving many to question if the rewards outweigh the risks

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