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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • 2 days ago • 12 min read

Martial arts The fight outside the ring

By Julija Veljkovic • 2 days ago
The career of a Kun Khmer fighter is marred by physical and mental obstacles. What motivates these men to put their bodies on the line?

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 17, 2020 • 6 min read

Women in Indonesia Dare Devi: Riding Satan’s barrel

By Agoes Rudianto • Jan 17, 2020
Each night, 20-year-old stunt-rider Devi Apriliyani rides "Satan's Barrel" as her husband and daughter look on. An already controversial act in socially conservative Indonesia, one fact complicates matters further – she is pregnant

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 16, 2020 • 8 min read

Tuk-tuks in Southeast Asia It came, it conquered

By Clive Graham-Ranger • Jan 16, 2020
From India to Southeast Asia, Africa to South America, the humble tuk-tuk has shown that three wheels are plenty as its conquered vast swathes of the globe in recent decades

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 13, 2020 • 10 min read

Art and politics Reclaiming artistic expression

By Samantha McCabe • Jan 13, 2020
Vietnamese art curator Đỗ Tường Linh has practiced her craft from London to Cuba, the Middle East and back home to Vietnam again. She spoke to Southeast Asia Globe about her latest exhibition, her forays into expanding peoples’ understanding of politics through art, and creating a Global South-led art scene

Culture • Nov 25, 2019 • 8 min read
Myanmar music scene

The last day of pleasant music

From our print archive: In 2013, in a former military dictatorship known for quietening most forms of freedom of expression, the music scene got a whole lot louder
By Douglas Long

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Culture • Oct 28, 2019 • 9 min read
Football in Southeast Asia

Fever pitch

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
By Marta Kasztelan

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Culture • Oct 21, 2019 • 9 min read
Cambodian Art

Drawing on the past

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

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Culture • Oct 15, 2019 • 13 min read
Khmer language

Tongue-tied

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

Culture • Oct 07, 2019 • 13 min read
Indigenous rights

People out of time

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

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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