Archive: Mar 2020



STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 24, 2020 • 1 min read

COVID-19 Laos confirms first cases of COVID-19

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Mar 24, 2020
Laos becomes Southeast Asia's final country to confirm cases of COVID-19 as two people in the capital Vientiane test positive on March 24

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 24, 2020 • 3 min read

COVID-19 Myanmar confirms first coronavirus cases

By Sun Myat Mon and Richard Sargent • Mar 24, 2020
After weeks of claiming to have zero cases despite its 2,100-kilometre border with China, Myanmar has finally confirmed its first COVID-19 cases

Mar 23, 2020 • 11 min read
Lee Kuan Yew

The founding father

Five years ago on March 23, Singapore's former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew passed away at the age of 91. Professor Michael Barr discusses the enduring legacy of the city-state's founding father
By Michael Barr • Mar 23, 2020

Mar 20, 2020 • 2 min read
Editorial

Escaping the present

This week, under the gloom of COVID-19, we've largely focused our attention away from the present and have taken a look at several significant events past and future. Among these is arguably Cambodia's most consequential occurrence, the 1970 coup d'etat that would change the course of the Kingdom's history
By Alastair McCready • Mar 20, 2020

Mar 20, 2020 • 10 min read
Cambodian rock

Cambodia’s ‘diva of the rice fields’

On March 20, 2018 Cambodia lost one of its great musicians when Cambodian Space Project frontwoman Kak Channthy was killed in a traffic accident. Two years on, her friends and family reminisce about the singer's life
By Miriam Deprez • Mar 20, 2020

Mar 19, 2020 • 10 min read
Refugee camps and COVID-19

When social distancing isn’t an option

As the world locks down and social distancing goes into full effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh don’t hold such a luxury. What happens if the virus takes hold in the world’s most vulnerable communities?
By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Mar 19, 2020

Mar 18, 2020 • 8 min read
Cambodian history

The 50-year legacy

50 years ago on March 18 1970, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk was overthrown in what is widely regarded a bloodless coup by military general Lon Nol. The tragic events that befell Cambodia in the decade after would go on to shape the Kingdom for generations, with the effects still visible to this day
By Samantha McCabe and Andrew Haffner • Mar 18, 2020

Mar 17, 2020 • 6 min read
Whatever happened to

Cambodia’s ‘HIV village’

Archive Top Read: In 2014, an unlicensed medic infected almost 300 people with HIV in Battambang province's Roka village. In 2017, we visited the residents of the village, who were still picking up the pieces three years on
By Paul Millar • Mar 17, 2020

Mar 16, 2020 • 6 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Life inside a Vietnamese government quarantine

British citizen Gavin Wheeldon has been held in a Vietnamese government quarantine near Hanoi since March 14. Here he provides an insight on what day-to-day life is like under complete lockdown
By Gavin Wheeldon • Mar 16, 2020

Mar 16, 2020 • 11 min read
ASEM summit 2020

Shining on the global stage

With Cambodia set to host the high-profile Europe-Asia cooperation summit ASEM 2020 come November, Robert Hör of think tank KAS explains why he believes the meet could be crucial in setting Cambodia back on track on the global stage
By Robert Hör • Mar 16, 2020