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By Govi Snell • 5 hours ago
With a fast ageing population, the Vietnamese government is placing the country's economic future on women as it urges them to marry by 30 and bear two children by 35 – a move which women's rights activists have condemned as reinforcing outdated gender roles
By Chath pierSath • yesterday
Longing for lost childhoods and lost relatives, snatched away by war and conflict; inequality in Cambodia and the great urban-rural divide. These are just some of the themes explored by Cambodian-American author and artist Chath pierSath in his latest collection of poetry
By Kiana Duncan • 4 days ago
As violence worsens on Myanmar's streets, artists are making sure the fallen and imprisoned are known as more than just headlines. Through vibrant comics and portraits, their storytelling is bringing protesters' struggles and sacrifices to an international audience
By Agence France-Presse • 7 days ago
Najib Razak, Malaysia's former prime minister, is facing a fine for breaking Covid-19 laws while out a restaurant.
The Mekong region countries were until recently heralded as exceptional cases in controlling the spread of Covid-19. But recent weeks have seen cases explode across Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, leaving Vietnam on high alert and observers asking what's gone so wrong
By Alastair McCready, Wanpen Pajai and Govi Snell • 7 days ago
In a state where the government has a heavy hand, people are pushing beyond traditional notions of welfare, with community-organised groups emerging in the name of mutual aid to reach out to the people left behind by the city-state’s rapid growth
By Charmaine Sew • 7 days ago
Groups in Thailand's Deep South are pushing back against a conservative religious context, bringing taboo topics such as domestic violence to the surface as they plug holes in government services and offer abused women a much-needed way out
By Ryan Anders and Wildan Muna • May 06, 2021
The Cambodian conflict of the 1970s was predominantly told through the male lens. But Elizabeth Becker, as one of the few women journalists reporting on the frontline, endeavoured to cast a light on the female experience of war
By Allegra Mendelson • May 05, 2021
The past year has seen countries across Southeast Asia enter into some form of lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. While average citizens have been hit hard, these measures have exposed the great inequalities experienced by the region's millions of migrant workers
By Fanzura Banu and Shee Siew Ying • May 03, 2021
Modernism is an architectural approach associated with functional and minimalist design. But in Vietnam, where the movement grew more organically in the mid-20th century, a unique style evolved as everyday citizens added their own decorative flourishes to these concrete structures
By Phạm Phú Vinh • Apr 28, 2021
With internet shutdowns and journalists facing growing violence and censorship in the wake of Myanmar's military coup, a new band of citizen reporters are forming underground, grassroots media outlets to step in and fill the information void left behind
By Kiana Duncan • Apr 27, 2021
Cambodia had avoided the worst health effects of the pandemic until recent months. Now, with Phnom Penh under an ever-stricter lockdown as cases spiral, it's the capital's thousands of informal, hand-to-mouth workers who are suffering as they are locked inside
By Andrew Haffner and and Borin Sopheavuthtey • Apr 26, 2021