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By Jack Brook • 3 days ago
The two countries push to welcome visitors in select regions, as their citizens are battered by Covid-19, lagging vaccinations and a tourist-starved economy
By Jack Brook • Sep 11, 2021
The National Unity Government urged citizens to engage in a “defensive war” against the military junta, targeting personnel and assets. The international community condemned the calls for violence, pushing instead for peace.
By Alastair McCready • Sep 04, 2021
While we welcomed some new faces to our editorial team this week, we also tackled fake news in Cambodia, the fight for UN recognition in Myanmar, and took a ride with taxi drivers on the front lines in Ho Chi Minh City
By Jack Brook • Aug 28, 2021
This week, we also took a look at why Malaysia’s contract doctors are on strike amidst a surging pandemic, what a sinister enemies list reveals about Thai government paranoia, and how Cambodia could become the centre of the Mekong’s drug trafficking
This week, we’ve also got a fantastic lead story exploring Vietnam’s conflicted views on abortion, a report on the difficult circumstances of garment workers in Myanmar and the finale of the Anakut podcast on the future of Phnom Penh
By Jack Brook • Aug 21, 2021
This week, the Anakut podcast discusses the implications of Cambodia’s increasingly coal-oriented energy policy, while two of our reporters call attention to the dire situation of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand. We’ve also got updates on ASEAN’s new special envoy to Myanmar, a look back at the ethnic riots in Singapore in the 60s and finally a report on the protests and activists pushing for American sanctions against the Tatmadaw
By Jack Brook • Aug 14, 2021
This week Weilee Yap made an impressive introduction as she published her first piece with the Globe looking at the plight of Singapore’s elderly amid the ‘new normal’. While we also delved into the crash of Adam Air flight 574, a disaster that speaks to not only mistakes made by the pilots that day, but to wider corruption in Indonesia’s aviation industry that continues on in 2021
By Alastair McCready • Aug 07, 2021
This week we looked at three groups of Cambodian women, all of whom are facing struggles exacerbated by the pandemic
By Alastair McCready • Jul 31, 2021
Also: A new episode of our Anakut podcast, a look behind the curtain of police brutality in Malaysia, and Indonesian president Jokowi’s complicated legacy in Papua
By Allegra Mendelson • Jul 21, 2021
As the Globe opens a new chapter, we’ve got the latest episode of the Anakut podcast, a hard-hitting call to abolish Singapore’s death penalty, and an up-close-and-personal history of the East Timor independence movement.
By Andrew Haffner • Jul 17, 2021
Inside the thriving Vietnamese-American communities of Houston, weighing the legacy of Indonesia’s Jokowi and investigating the plight of Thailand’s migrant workers. We’ve also got a hot new episode of Anakut!
By Andrew Haffner • Jul 10, 2021
Also: Checking in with Thailand’s protest movement, looking behind the curtain of Myanmar’s military newspaper, and the economic aspirations of Vietnam’s worker visa crackdown
By Andrew Haffner • Jul 03, 2021