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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 28, 2019 • 9 min read

Football in Southeast Asia Fever pitch

By Marta Kasztelan • Oct 28, 2019
From our print archive: While soccer players all over the world aim for Europe's big leagues, many end up struggling to make ends meet in some of Asia's low-budget championships

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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 21, 2019 • 9 min read

Cambodian Art Drawing on the past

By Rob Savage • Oct 21, 2019
From our 2007 print archive: a new generation of Cambodian comic book artists are carrying on the legacy of the Golden Age forebears

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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 15, 2019 • 13 min read

Khmer language Tongue-tied

By Simon Roughneen • Oct 15, 2019
Cambodia’s native language is under pressure from a globally dominant English that is generating more jargon than Khmer can easily absorb

Culture • 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

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Culture • Sep 25, 2019 • 4 min read
Vann Molyvann

Concrete dreams

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
By Janelle Retka

Culture • 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

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Culture • Aug 29, 2019 • 17 min read
Indigenous rights

Uprooted

Landgrabs, deforestation and an increasingly-globalised Khmer culture are encroaching deep into the lands and lore of Cambodia's indigenous Bunong people
By Tabitha Payne

Culture • Aug 08, 2019 • 10 min read
Urban development

Setting the scene

As Southeast Asia's cities are modernised and gentrified, art and heritage are undergoing a form of commodification – endorsed in some cases by local political leaders
By James Springer

Culture • Jul 12, 2019 • 8 min read
Cambodian music

Music of the spirits

For millennia, Cambodia's pleng arak musicians have summoned up the Kingdom's countless spirits through their songs. But with more and more Cambodians turning to doctors instead of deities, will the country's sacred spirit musicians fall silent?
By Emily Howe

Culture • Jun 17, 2019 • 7 min read
Buddhism

Dead monk walking

From our print archive: Every year, a much-loved abbot is raised from his glass casket, brushed down and paraded before an adoring crowd
By Tom Vater

Culture • Feb 27, 2019 • 6 min read
Whatever happened to…

The Amish tuk tuk drivers of Siem Reap?

Back in 2011, a reporter from the Phnom Penh Post was visiting Siem Reap when something strange caught his eye: two white guys driving tuk tuks. We tracked down the boys from Coshocton, Ohio, to see what they’ve been up to since
By Tom O'Connell

Culture • Jan 04, 2019 • 8 min read
Indonesia

Rising from a century of lost hopes

Southeast Asia Globe talks with feature moviemaker Joko Anwar, who’s taking a break from the big screen to tell stories for HBO Asia
By Mark Adnum