Archive: Aug 2013



STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 30, 2013 • 8 min read

Apportunity knocks

By Rebecca Foster and Erika Mudie • Aug 30, 2013
The increasing digitalisation of Southeast Asia is creating greater opportunities for startups, although it is foreign entrepreneurs who are leading the pack

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 28, 2013 • 7 min read

Development The view from the bottom

By Marcus Tudehope • Aug 28, 2013
In a city of extremes, what does the boom look like from the perspective of the urban poor?

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 26, 2013 • 5 min read

Food for thought

By Denise Hruby • Aug 26, 2013
The scourge of childhood across the country, malnutrition could be beaten in one simple and inexpensive measure

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 23, 2013 • 4 min read

Time after time

By Massimo Morello • Aug 23, 2013
The storied Raffles Hotel continues to dazzle in a nation preoccupied with progress

Aug 22, 2013 • 5 min read
Censorship

Killing them softly

Singapore’s approach may be more subtle, but its new internet laws echo the strong-arm tactics used by regional governments to silence free speech
By Chris Swanicke • Aug 22, 2013

Aug 20, 2013 • 6 min read
Indonesian Genocide

Documenting death

Described by some as genocide, the bloody purge of Indonesian ‘communists’ in 1965-66 is examined in a new documentary
By Dene Mullen • Aug 20, 2013

Aug 19, 2013 • 5 min read
Propaganda

Massacring the truth

A visit to Jakarta’s Museum of Communist Treachery, one of many institutions that present government propaganda at its finest
By Philip Jacobson • Aug 19, 2013

Aug 15, 2013 • 4 min read
Interview

Burn notice

In his new book, Squatters into Citizens, Dr Loh Kah Seng explores how the vision of a modern city was achieved in Singapore in the aftermath of the great fire of 1961. Here, he discusses the city-state’s public housing sector, its transformative effect on citizens and Singapore’s good economic fortune
By Dene Mullen • Aug 15, 2013

Aug 13, 2013 • 5 min read

Shaking up the party

Many Indonesians are hoping that Joko Widodo will spearhead a new era of clean politics once the current president wraps up his maximum second term in office
By Sacha Passi • Aug 13, 2013

Aug 09, 2013 • 7 min read

Hello, boys!

Modified motors and buxom beauties continue their age-old alliance at Southeast Asia’s largest customised car show
By Dene Mullen • Aug 09, 2013

Aug 08, 2013 • 5 min read

Crime and punishment

A tainted legal system is failing Cambodia's young offenders
By Sacha Passi • Aug 08, 2013