Southeast Asia, By the Week

Editorial • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 28, 2021 • 4 min read

Editorial Kamala Harris visits Vietnam, Singapore, seeking regional allies

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

Editorial • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 21, 2021 • 5 min read

Editorial Afghanistan recalls the horrors of conflict in 1970s Southeast Asia

By Jack Brook • Aug 21, 2021
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

Editorial • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 14, 2021 • 4 min read

Editorial The future of Cambodia’s energy

By Jack Brook • Aug 14, 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

Editorial • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 07, 2021 • 4 min read

Editorial Surviving the ‘new normal’ in Singapore and Indonesia’s deadly aviation industry

By Alastair McCready • Aug 07, 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

Editorial • Jul 21, 2021 • 3 min read
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A look at Timor-Leste, both past and present!

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

Editorial • Jul 17, 2021 • 4 min read
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The times, they are a’changing

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

Editorial • Jul 10, 2021 • 3 min read
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Vietnamese flavours are changing Texas BBQ for the better

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

Editorial • Jul 03, 2021 • 4 min read
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Introducing our podcast’s second season!

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

Editorial • Jun 26, 2021 • 3 min read
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For sale: Cambodia’s national parks

We dove right back into things on our first week back from the publishing holiday with a look at at Cambodia’s vanishing national parks, the endless land struggle of the indigenous Orang Asli of Malaysia and the bittersweet life of Saiful, a hopeful 10-year-old Rohingya who died last month off the shore of the far flung Bhasan Char island.
By Andrew Haffner • Jun 26, 2021

Editorial • Jun 14, 2021 • 3 min read
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We’re taking a break!

The Globe team has been slugging away for a long time now without much let up. To take some time to reflect on the direction of our publication, as well as preserve all of our sanity, we’ll be taking a one week break from publishing
By Chia Chi Hsu • Jun 14, 2021

Editorial • Jun 11, 2021 • 4 min read
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Want to join our team? Now’s your chance

This week, we announce the opening of a new job at Globe and make (another) plug for our ongoing fundraiser. In features, we go to Myanmar to cover the war of informants now facing activists, investigate brutal land grabs in Thailand and imagine the future of tourism in Cambodia.
By Andrew Haffner • Jun 11, 2021