Archive: Oct 2015



STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 29, 2015 • 5 min read

Screaming trees: Myanmar guitars

By Manny Maung • Oct 29, 2015
With the woods required to craft guitars in dangerously high demand, an experienced yet enterprising Yangon luthier is championing sonic sustainability by utilising obscure local timbers

STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 28, 2015 • 3 min read

Cambodia’s got talent: top chefs

By Dene Mullen • Oct 28, 2015
We asked some of the country’s finest Cambodian chefs to prepare their favourite dishes and share their stories. The results were never anything less than scorching

STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 28, 2015 • 3 min read

Continued stigma A place to call home: Naung Kan leprosy colony

By Brennan O'Connor • Oct 28, 2015
Located just outside of Kengtung, a former trade crossroads between China and Siam, Naung Kan leprosy colony in Myanmar provides a stable and understanding environment to sufferers of one of the world’s most stigmatised diseases

STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 25, 2015 • 8 min read

Agriculture The end of Cambodia’s rice industry?

By Denise Hruby • Oct 25, 2015
A combination of erratic weather, poor infrastructure and an inefficient government has experts predicting that Cambodia’s rice industry could collapse within a decade   

Oct 22, 2015 • 8 min read
Knowledge-based economy

Follow the leader

Southeast Asian nations will eventually need to swap farming for flash drives and become knowledge-based economies. Singapore is already showing how it’s done
By Kevin Ponniah • Oct 22, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 • 9 min read
Workers

Divided they fall: Cambodia's unions

Last year, trade unionism in Cambodia appeared to have reached its high-water mark. But with minimum wage negotiations taking place this month, there are already concerns it has become a divided and weakened movement
By David Hutt • Oct 21, 2015

Oct 19, 2015 • 7 min read
Malaysia

A country in crisis?

Scandals, disasters and financial mismanagement have hit Malaysia hard in recent years. Southeast Asia Globe finds that the nation’s young people are beginning to talk of a country in crisis
By Daniel Besant • Oct 19, 2015

Oct 16, 2015 • 10 min read
Ferdinand Marcos

The tomb of Marcos

From our print archive: The ‘sacred’ story of the Philippines’ former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, as told through a bizarre museum in his home province, where he is still adored
By Justin Calderon • Oct 16, 2015

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Oct 16, 2015 • 9 min read
History

History is how you read it: the Marcos Museum

The ‘sacred’ story of the Philippines’ former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, as told through a bizarre museum in his home province, where he is still adored
By Justin Calderon • Oct 16, 2015

Oct 15, 2015 • 5 min read

Thailand’s constitution: back to the future

Thailand’s recently rejected constitution is back with the government’s scriptwriters, but we should not expect an entirely original sequel
By Pavin Chachavalpongpun • Oct 15, 2015

Oct 13, 2015 • 1 min read

Not enough food on the plate

Even as incomes rise across the region, many are still going hungry, according to a new report
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Oct 13, 2015