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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • 13 hours ago • 13 min read

Khmer language Tongue-tied

By Simon Roughneen • 13 hours ago
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 • 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

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 10, 2019 • 6 min read

Laotian tribes Coffin nails

By León García Mortensen • Sep 10, 2019
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

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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

Culture • Dec 16, 2018 • 5 min read
Photography

China’s bound feet women

Jo Farrell has been taking photos of the last living women with bound feet in China for 14 years. The images are shown at the Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap
By Tom O’Connell

Culture • Dec 10, 2018 • 5 min read
Opinion

Rapping against dictatorship

An exiled Thai academic writes that the response by the military junta that rules Thailand to the recent viral video sensation by the group Rap Against Dictatorship is a sign of things to come
By Giles Ji Ungpakorn