Archive: Jun 2020



STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 22, 2020 • 2 min read

Conservation Four arrested in Indonesia tiger poaching case

By Agence France-Presse • Jun 22, 2020
Four suspected poachers in Indonesia's Aceh province have been arrested for killing a female Sumatran tiger, a critically endangered species, in a case that highlights the ongoing fight against wildlife trafficking across Southeast Asia

STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 22, 2020 • 7 min read

Cambodia A year since Sihanoukville collapse, has Cambodia reformed its building sector?

By Andrew Haffner • Jun 22, 2020
Cambodia has enacted a sweeping new legal approach to construction since the deadly Sihanoukville building collapse that killed 28 workers and their family members. But with legislation in hand, has anything changed for the labourers building the Kingdom a year on?

STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 22, 2020 • 4 min read

Opinion How indigenous groups and social forestry can save Indonesia’s rainforest

By Mohammad Zainuri Hasyim • Jun 22, 2020
As people around the globe mark World Rainforest Day, Mohammad Zainuri Hasyim of the Rainforest Alliance in Indonesia says we must start recognising the power of Indigenous and local communities in preserving this vital natural resource

Jun 22, 2020 • 3 min read
Editorial

Rainforests and safe buildings

This week we mark World Rainforest Day with an op-ed from the Rainforest Alliance, in which they explain how Indonesia's indigenous communities play a crucial role in preserving their life-giving effects. We also mark the one year anniversary of the deadly Sihanoukville building collapse, which claimed 28 lives last June. We ask, despite new legislation, has anything substantively changed in the Cambodian building sector?
By Alastair McCready • Jun 22, 2020

Jun 19, 2020 • 12 min read
Myanmar politics

Q&A: The tragic character arc of Aung San Suu Kyi

2011 biopic The Lady depicts an Aung San Suu Kyi fighting for democracy, painting a very different picture to the one we know today. The Globe spoke with the film’s screenwriter, Rebecca Frayn, to better understand the former democracy icon's tragic character arc
By Alexi Demetriadi • Jun 19, 2020

Jun 19, 2020 • 3 min read
Press freedom

HRW: Duterte attempting to silence reporting on deadly drug war

Following the conviction of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa this week on cyber libel charges, Human Rights Watch has claimed the case is part of a growing trend of Rodrigo Duterte attempting to silence those reporting on his infamous drug war
By Alex Cooper • Jun 19, 2020

Jun 18, 2020 • 4 min read
Singapore politics

Holding Singapore polls during pandemic harms fairness, rights group says

With Singapore looking set to hold its general election in July, rights group ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights have said that going to the polls during a pandemic will only worsen an electoral process already skewed in favour of the ruling People's Action Party
By Lee Ying Shan • Jun 18, 2020

Jun 18, 2020 • 10 min read
Indigenous rights

Indonesia’s indigenous groups take virus safety into their own hands

Indonesia's indigenous groups have long fought for the preservation of their communities. Now, in the absence of government support as the Covid-19 pandemic has taken hold, they've had to once again take community safety into their own hands
By Andre Barahamin • Jun 18, 2020

Jun 17, 2020 • 9 min read

As the great powers vie for influence, how can ASEAN stay united?

The importance of economic, political and security cooperation among ASEAN member states has become increasingly apparent in recent decades. But as the great powers vie for influence in the region, the cracks in this fragile unity are at risk of growing
By Thi Mong Tuyen Tran and Jun Jie Lee • Jun 17, 2020

Jun 17, 2020 • 6 min read
Opinion

Ressa’s conviction by the Duterte regime isn’t the story we should focus on

This week Rappler CEO Maria Ressa was convicted in the latest attack on press freedom under President Rodrigo Duterte. But academic Tom Smith says by shining all the spotlight on this high-profile case, we're forgetting the Filipino journalists under fire at the grassroots
By Tom Smith • Jun 17, 2020