Archive: Nov 2018



STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 21, 2018 • 6 min read

Environment How our great plastic love affair turned toxic

By Hilmar Schmundt • Nov 21, 2018
Plastic was invented a century and a half ago as a way to protect the environment. Today, the world is suffocating in it as researchers and startups search for solutions

STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 19, 2018 • 5 min read

Asylum protection officer ‘In Thailand we treat refugees like tourists’

By Janelle Retka • Nov 19, 2018
Nestled on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, the Mae Tao Clinic, in the Thai town of Mae Sot, has given desperately needed healthcare services to the thousands of ethnic minority refugees fleeing military crackdowns in their homeland for more than three decades

Nov 17, 2018 • 3 min read
Photography

Asean in Singapore, Viet Pride and Bangkok’s new icon

This week many of the world’s leaders descended on Southeast Asia’s richest nation for the semiannual Asean Summit, while Malaysia protested child marriage and Vietnam celebrated Gay Pride
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Nov 17, 2018

Nov 16, 2018 • 4 min read
Khmer Rouge tribunal

Genocide and justice

Two Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of genocide of minorities, in a landmark moment for the court and the country
By Leonie Kijewski • Nov 16, 2018

Nov 16, 2018 • 5 min read
Photography

The tribes of Vietnam

Photographer Réhahn is on a quest to capture the cultures of the country’s 54 tribes
By Graeme Green • Nov 16, 2018

Nov 15, 2018 • 8 min read
Pridi Banomyong

Thailand’s “Father of Democracy”

Thailand’s first popularly elected prime minister, Pridi Banomyong, was instrumental in the overthrow of the Kingdom’s absolute monarchy and the creation of the nation’s first constitution. But as the palace-backed military junta continues to pave the way for the long-promised return to elections, his fierce struggle for democracy is being written out of the Kingdom’s chequered history.
By Paul Millar • Nov 15, 2018

Nov 14, 2018 • 7 min read
Dia.Lo.Gue

The woman creating space for Jakarta’s art scene to thrive

Dismayed by a lack of government-funded cultural centres in Indonesia’s capital, Engel Tanzil decided to create her own public space for the arts. Seven years on, Dia.Lo.Gue art space has blown up – and even created an artistic economy of its own
By Janelle Retka • Nov 14, 2018

Nov 13, 2018 • 14 min read
Anti-China sentiment

Seeing red

China is investing billions in Cambodia’s economy. But as more and more Cambodians raise fears of crime, corruption and colonial ambition, could rising public resentment lead to racially motivated violence?
By Paul Millar • Nov 13, 2018