Archive: Aug 2018



STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 17, 2018 • 4 min read

Sponsored Manulife Cambodia: critical preparations

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 17, 2018
With a new Critical Illness Benefit featuring competitive financial and diagnoses coverage, Manulife Cambodia is helping the country's population overcome trying times and get back to the life and family they love

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 15, 2018 • 6 min read

Timeline Cambodia’s imprisoned human rights activist

By Lesly Lotha • Aug 15, 2018
It is exactly two years since Cambodia’s prominent human rights defender Tep Vanny was jailed after protesting against the imprisonment of a group of rights workers known as the Adhoc 5. Southeast Asia Globe looks at her story so far

Aug 15, 2018 • 4 min read
Jakarta Palembang

Five must-see competitors at the 2018 Asian Games

The 18th edition of the Asian Games kicks off in Jakarta at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium this weekend, welcoming 45 countries to compete in 40 different sports. Southeast Asia Globe picks out five competitors to watch at this year’s games
By Thomas Brent • Aug 15, 2018

Aug 15, 2018 • 3 min read
Manuscript to bookshop

Inside Singapore’s world of publishing

For over a decade, Phoon Kok Hwa has coached authors on how to get their manuscript into bookshops as publisher at Candid Creation Publishing, a leading firm in Singapore. He’s helped transform the family-run business from a company focused on Chinese-language books to English-language business and self-help books
By Janelle Retka • Aug 15, 2018

Aug 14, 2018 • 7 min read
Architecture

Building a brighter Cambodia

When 35-year-old Hok Kang launched his career a decade ago, he wanted to change Cambodians’ perception of architecture. Since then, he has helped create Brown Coffee's look, trained up young architects at his own firm and ventured into high-end real-estate development by founding UrbanLand
By Janelle Retka • Aug 14, 2018

Aug 14, 2018 • 3 min read
Social Enterprise

Food for thought

Using the culinary expertise of refugees, a catering project in Malaysia is hoping to not only improve lives, but also to break down barriers and change discriminatory attitudes
By Thomas Brent • Aug 14, 2018

Aug 13, 2018 • 12 min read
Myanmar

Hate speech on Facebook still persists

In a nation where ethnic and religious hatreds have long simmered and occasionally boiled over, social media represents a brave new digital frontier where news battles with hearsay, gossip and threats that can have deadly consequences
By Libby Hogan • Aug 13, 2018

Aug 13, 2018 • 4 min read
Fintech

Is Southeast Asia ready to go cashless?

Southeast Asia Globe probes how financial technology and the regional startup scene could change the way Cambodia and the other countries of Southeast Asia pay for stuff
By Tom O'Connell • Aug 13, 2018

Aug 10, 2018 • 3 min read
Photography

Devastation in Lombok, Najib in court and Singapore celebrates

The Indonesian island of Lombok has been rocked by a series of powerful earthquakes, claiming hundreds of lives and destroying thousands of homes. Meanwhile, former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak faces fresh criminal charges and Singapore celebrates its 53rd anniversary
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 10, 2018

Aug 10, 2018 • 4 min read
Sponsored

Grant Thornton Cambodia's new approach

Grant Thornton Cambodia – considering business models and forward-looking information
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 10, 2018