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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • 4 days ago • 11 min read

Southeast Asian languages The power of script

By Zachary Frye • 4 days ago
With the rise of the internet age, Southeast Asia is fast embracing change. But within a digital world initially designed for Latin scripts and fonts, the region is still playing catch up to ensure its citizens have equal access to every online feature

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 20, 2020 • 10 min read

Cambodian rock Cambodia’s ‘diva of the rice fields’

By Miriam Deprez • Mar 20, 2020
On March 20, 2018 Cambodia lost one of its great musicians when Cambodian Space Project frontwoman Kak Channthy was killed in a traffic accident. Two years on, her friends and family reminisce about the singer's life

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 12, 2020 • 11 min read

Tradition Crumbling walls

By Words by Marielle Lucenio, photos by Leo Solinap • Mar 12, 2020
With their past hardly accounted for in history, the future of the once-hidden traditional Binukot women remains challenged in the face of resistance and progressivism in the Philippines

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 28, 2020 • 5 min read

Thailand photography Uncle Chet’s meat supply

By Marcel Mayer • Feb 28, 2020
Amid its rapidly modernising and increasingly sanitised landscape, only small pockets of old Bangkok survive today. Photographer Marcel Mayer shadows Uncle Chet, a pig slaughterer in the city's historic Chinatown for decades, who is one such living relic of a bygone era

Culture • Feb 25, 2020 • 15 min read
The Killing Fields

Going off script

In 1985, Cambodian Haing S Ngor became the first Asian to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the iconic The Killing Fields. The Globe sat down with the film's screenplay writer Bruce Robinson on the 24th anniversary of Ngor's murder to hear his reflections on the man and the movie
By Jonnie Bayfield

Culture • Feb 24, 2020 • 6 min read
Malaysian architecture

Keeping the past perfect

Top Read of 2013: Amid the screech of rapid development and progress in Malaysia, the battle is on among conservationists to preserve the country's historic architectural charm
By John Grafilo

Culture • Feb 19, 2020 • 12 min read
Spanish in the Philippines

Hola y bienvenidos

The city of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines is one of the last refuges of Chabacano, a local Spanish creole that serves as a living relic of centuries of colonial rule
By Richard Collett

Culture • Feb 18, 2020 • 9 min read
Marriage in Cambodia

Love conquers all

Top Read of 2009: They say love can conquer all, but cultural differences and bureaucratic necessities can be a frustrating stumbling block for those who find the partner of their dreams in Cambodia.
By Ryan Plummer

Culture • Feb 12, 2020 • 6 min read
Thailand railways

Rolling into the future

In January 2021, a new $1 billion transit hub in Bang Sue is set to usurp Hualamphong as Bangkok's main railway station. Photographer Tim Russell guides us through the last months of this iconic structure through a collection of his images
By Tim Russell

Culture • Feb 05, 2020 • 11 min read
Music festivals

Greening the festival circuit

Southeast Asia Globe caught up with Thai musician Notep in Chiang Mai at one of the region's growing number of socially conscious music festivals. Are they able to offer party goers guilt-free hedonism?
By Andrew Haffner

Culture • Jan 27, 2020 • 4 min read
Life in the city-state

Singapore after dark

2018 print archive Top Read: British photographer and Singapore resident Tom White delves into the ultra-wealthy city-state of six million in a study of light and dark, of luxury and debt, of power players and the down and out
By Tom White

Culture • Jan 24, 2020 • 12 min read
Martial arts

The fight outside the ring

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?
By Julija Veljkovic