By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jul 05, 2012
Investors are expected to expand their operations across Southeast Asia as trade and investment are further liberalised. Yet at present, few Asean member-states have competition laws in place.  Effective regulation and promotion of competition provides a strong foundation for economic development. The positive benefits of fair competition for…

By Southeast Asia Globe • Jul 05, 2012
Rachel Dougall, a 38-year-old British woman who faces the firing squad alongside four other people after a $2.6m-cocaine bust in Indonesia, speaks from inside a Bali jail. The mother of a six-year-old girl says she was set up by a travel partner who disguised the drugs as a present for…

By Southeast Asia Globe • Jul 05, 2012
Human rights standards across the region will be on the agenda this month as foreign leaders meet in Phnom Penh for the 45th Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting 

By Charlie Lancaster • Jul 03, 2012
Southeast Asia is sitting on a bamboo bounty, it just doesn’t know it yet