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Jun 25, 2020 • 11 min read
The View From Southeast Asia

Solidarity among people: Black Lives Matter and Southeast Asia

Black Lives Matter has thrust the issue of race into the mainstream narrative across the world, and Southeast Asia is no different. From Myanmar to Papua, groups in the region have expressed solidarity and discussed their own experiences with ethnicity and identity
By Macy-Châu Diễm Trần

Jun 15, 2020 • 6 min read
Opinion

Khmer community – It is time for us to say Black Lives Matter

As Black Lives Matter protests gathers momentum globally, Deputy Director of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association Joan Chun says the Khmer community must examine its own attitude to blackness and throw its support behind the movement
By Joan Chun

Jun 15, 2020 • 6 min read
Black Lives Matter

Perspectives from Khmer diaspora in the US on the Black Lives Matter movement

As protests erupt across the United States demanding racial equality and an end to police brutality, members of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association living across the country offer their reflections on race and the Black Lives Matter movement
By Cambodian American Literary Arts Association

Jun 15, 2020 • 4 min read
Editorial

Black Lives Matter and abandoned Angkor

This week, as the US is rocked by a moment of intense introspection and reflection on the issue of race and equality, we publish an op-ed on the role of the Khmer diaspora in the Black Lives Matter movement, sent to us by our friends over at the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association. We also have a selection of images depicting ancient Angkor as few have seen it in recent decades, with it largely devoid of visitors in recent months with the dramatic downturn in global tourism.
By Andrew Haffner

Jan 11, 2021 • 4 min read
Aviation

Indonesia says located black box recorders from crashed plane

Following the deadly crash of Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500, body parts, twisted wreckage and clothing were plucked from waters off the Indonesian capital on Sunday as the location of the black boxes, key to understanding the cause of the accident, were located
By Dessy Sagita/AFP

Feb 11, 2021 • 7 min read
Opinion

J&T protest reveals Malaysians’ lack of empathy for low-wage workers

Despite J&T workers apologising for throwing packages around, the public’s condemning reaction in Malaysia has demonstrated a lack of empathy for low-wage workers in the face of economic hardship, the pandemic and low-wage exploitation
By Huei Ting Cheong

Jul 30, 2020 • 12 min read
Discrimination

Malaysian university to be investigated as racism allegations mount

A podcast by ex-staff members has levelled fresh allegations of racism against Malaysian university Limkokwing, with the country's Ministry of Higher Education stating that they are set to investigate the institution
By Yao-Hua Law

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

Mar 17, 2021 • 13 min read
Conservation

Teeming with life, the destruction of Vietnam’s karsts hits biodiversity

Vietnam's karst forests are abundant in biodiversity. But with rapid habitat loss, it is feared that species are disappearing before they can be studied, while others like the critically endangered Delacour's langur in Kim Bang forest are at risk of extinction due to mining
By Govi Snell