Archive: Mar 2013



STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 20, 2013 • 6 min read

Development Playing dirty

By Kearrin Sims • Mar 20, 2013
Everyday Laotians are finding that joining the Asian Century comes with hidden costs

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 19, 2013 • 7 min read

Missing People The vanishing

By Caroline Vernaillen • Mar 19, 2013
In recent decades, thousands of people across Southeast Asia have disappeared, often at the hands of governments or their agents, and those seeking the return of a loved one often find themselves in an information black hole

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 18, 2013 • 5 min read

Survival instincts

By Franklin Fuentes • Mar 18, 2013
Can Southeast Asia offer a lifeline to struggling US medical technology companies?

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 15, 2013 • 3 min read

Covering Cambodia

By Philip Heijmans • Mar 15, 2013
The Kingdom’s auto insurance sector is gearing up

Mar 14, 2013 • 1 min read

"Stop Acid Violence"

A song by Soum Bunnarith and Dr Horng Lairapo
By Soum Bunnarith & Dr Horng Lairapo • Mar 14, 2013

Mar 14, 2013 • 7 min read
Acid attacks

Healing Burns

Treating physical and mental scars at the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity
By Daniel Otis • Mar 14, 2013

Mar 13, 2013 • 4 min read

Sweet Prospects

The Kingdom’s up-and-coming palm sugar industry has the world at its feet
By Philip Heijmans • Mar 13, 2013

Mar 12, 2013 • 7 min read
Festival

Bringing the heat

Ahead of their performance at the Big Wig Festival in Singapore, Cuban Brothers founder Miguel Mantovani discusses Spanish children’s entertainers, nude sunbathing and Tom Jones having sex with a cardboard box
By Dene Mullen • Mar 12, 2013

Mar 11, 2013 • 5 min read

The drugs don’t work

Despite the best efforts of the authorities, producers of fake medicines are making a killing in Cambodia
By Sacha Passi • Mar 11, 2013

Mar 07, 2013 • 4 min read

Divide and rule

Thein Sein may be president, but General Min Aung Hlaing ultimately has all the power
By Sacha Passi • Mar 07, 2013

Mar 06, 2013 • 5 min read
UXO

Black water

Brave volunteers are pushing their bodies to the limit as they prepare to search for unexploded ordnance in the Kingdom’s murky rivers
By Mary Kozlovski • Mar 06, 2013