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Life • STORY OF THE DAY • 14 hours ago • 13 min read

Khmer language Tongue-tied

By Simon Roughneen • 14 hours ago
Cambodia’s native language is under pressure from a globally dominant English that is generating more jargon than Khmer can easily absorb

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 07, 2019 • 13 min read

Indigenous rights People out of time

By Antonio Graceffo, Bruno Deniel-Laurent, P. Brisby • Oct 07, 2019
From our print archive: Losing their forests, languages and cultures, Southeast Asia’s minorities are becoming strangers in their own homes

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 03, 2019 • 12 min read

Indonesia protests Back on the streets

By Stania Puspa • Oct 03, 2019
Students demonstrators have taken to the streets of Indonesia to protest controversial bills – and remind President Joko Widodo not to abandon his reformist credentials

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 25, 2019 • 4 min read

Vann Molyvann Concrete dreams

By Janelle Retka • Sep 25, 2019
This week marks two years since the death of Cambodia’s most prolific architect, Vann Molyvann. Southeast Asia Globe explores the monuments left behind by this legend of the Kingdom's New Khmer Architecture movement

Life • Sep 24, 2019 • 9 min read
Human rights

Putting Cambodia back on track

Cambodian Centre for Human Rights executive director Chak Sopheap breaks down how Cambodia has strayed from the promises of its constitution – and how the nation can get itself back on course
By Chak Sopheap

Life • Sep 18, 2019 • 11 min read
Poverty in Cambodia

Houses divided

Single-income families must endure a precarious dependence, with penury, divorce and emigration looming when things go wrong for a breadwinner
By Veng Sonita

Life • Sep 13, 2019 • 11 min read
Cambodia construction

Building a Kingdom

Buried amid the noise of Cambodia’s real estate boom, the Kingdom’s construction workers are still struggling for access to a steady wage and basic social protections
By Paul Millar

Life • Sep 12, 2019 • 14 min read
Counterfeit goods

Bad medicine

Fake medicine remains a scourge in Southeast Asia despite years of widespread coverage of the issue and promised government crackdowns
By Andrew Haffner

Life • Sep 10, 2019 • 6 min read
Laotian tribes

Coffin nails

If a smoker’s heaven exists it may be something like the Bolaven plateau, where you get your first smoke – and your first coffin – before you can walk
By León García Mortensen

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Life • Sep 06, 2019 • 14 min read
Agent Orange

Agents of death

Almost five decades since the US sprayed Agent Orange on Vietnam, lives are still being ruined by the herbicide – and German company Bayer, which acquired original manufacturer Monsanto, may now be forced to pay its own price for reckless herbicide use
By James Springer

Life • Sep 03, 2019 • 8 min read
Cambodia's Media

History’s first draft

From our print archive. Two years ago, authorities forced the closure of The Cambodia Daily, dealing a blow to the country's press freedom. But a decade before there were hopes that a relatively-free press could see the country become a Southeast Asian publishing hub
By Craig Guthrie

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Life • Sep 02, 2019 • 9 min read
Thai sex work

Rough trade

After years of turning a blind eye to the nation’s sex trade, Thai authorities are beginning to crack down. But advocates within the industry are calling for the government to decriminalise their work instead
By Caleb Quinley