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By Ashley Yeong • 4 days ago
A ski theme park developer wants to take advantage of the pristine nature and chilly weather of Cameron Highlands, but rapid deforestation and poor planning undermine its potential as a nature tourism powerhouse
By Ashley Yeong • 5 days ago
As the pandemic death toll in Malaysia surpasses 21,000, strangers feeling a common loss have come together to launch a website commemorating lives taken by the virus
By Jack Brook • Sep 02, 2021
In the Kingdom, most stories are told in Khmer. But the Bophana Centre’s filmmaking programme is training indigenous youth in northeastern Cambodia to document their communities and languages that risk being subsumed by the dominant national culture
By Kiana Duncan • Aug 02, 2021
Under the looming threat of violence since Myanmar's coup, activists in the country are working to ensure the highly-politicised programmes working to preserve ethnic languages don’t go missing for good, even if it means going into hiding
Being Khmer is often treated as synonymous to being Cambodian. But many ethnicities are woven throughout the Kingdom's rich tapestry, as social commentator Din Darathtey and Cambodian Living Arts executive director Prim Phloeun join the podcast to discuss
By Andrew Haffner • Jul 21, 2021
Despite the surge in coronavirus deaths and tighter restrictions, Indonesians gather to commemorate a sombre Eid al-Adha festival
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 20, 2021
Following the opening of the 'Phuket Sandbox', Thailand has announced that three more islands will open to vaccinated foreign tourists, despite a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases propelled by the Delta variant
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 15, 2021
Vietnamese art has long suffered from severe conservation challenges, ranging from climate, to insects and resources. But today, spurred on by the collapse of traditional art spaces due to the pandemic, the digitisation of the country's art scene is in full swing
By Emma Duester • Jul 13, 2021
In Thailand, a new fad of "CryptoAmulets" - virtual images of revered Buddhist monks - are the latest venture in the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), bringing luck to tech-savvy buyers
By Thanaporn Promyamyai and Dene-Hern Chen/AFP • Jul 09, 2021
Once a bustling port of the British Empire, by the late 1960s George Town was a city in decline. But 1972 would prove to be the turning point for Penang, transforming the island once again into a Malaysian economic powerhouse
By Alastair McCready • Jul 08, 2021
Welcome to Season 2 of the Anakut podcast! As June is the Pride Month, we're kicking off with Cambodia's LGBTQ+ community, discussing the hopes and challenges facing individuals today. Joining us is Skyler Ros, a transgender fashion designer, and Seng Reasey, executive director of rights group SILAKA
By Andrew Haffner • Jun 30, 2021
Gaiyathiri Murugayan, the Singaporean woman guilty of starving, assaulting and ultimately killing a domestic worker, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday June 22
By Agence France-Presse • Jun 22, 2021