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By Helena Kobagau and Haeril Halim/AFP • 4 days ago
Illegal mining has soared across Indonesia's restive Papua region in the midst of the global health crisis, despite hazards including the risk of arrest and health damage from toxic mercury used at many makeshift mining sites
By Kimkong Heng • 4 days ago
While youth-led protests grow in neighbouring Thailand, a spate of arrests of Cambodian activists in recent months has been met with a muted response. Researcher Kimkong Heng believes it's high-time that the Kingdom's youth reengaged through social media
By Alastair McCready • Sep 17, 2020
This collection of archive images depicts Phnom Penh in April 1953, offering an insight into Cambodia on the brink of independence, a country yet to be touched by the heady development of the 60s or the tragedy of the 70s
By Agence France-Presse • Sep 15, 2020
A dragon encircles a tower, wretched souls face torture, superheroes scale a mosaic wall – these may seem like scenes from a half-remembered dream, but are in fact famed temples in Thailand
An ethnic minority group in Thailand, the Akha hill tribe is navigating an ongoing dilemma between remembering their cultural roots, and integrating into Thai society with all the benefits and costs that accompany life in the modern world
By Tara Abhasakun • Sep 14, 2020
Today, Manila is a sprawling metropolis largely dominated by anonymous high-rise condominium blocks, shopping malls and traffic-clogged highways. But back in the 1960s, more evident was a clean, sleek and modernising city displaying an abundance of character
By Alastair McCready • Sep 04, 2020
As a look back in history for the 75th anniversary of Vietnamese independence, the Globe reflects on how prisons became a symbol for colonial oppression, a breeding ground for communism, and ultimately gave life to the 1945 August Revolution
By Ashley Lampard • Sep 03, 2020
The closure of 53 regional ABS-CBN television and radio stations that broadcast in six languages will deprive millions of Filipinos of their main source of local news and entertainment
By Ron Lopez and Cecil Morella/AFP • Aug 31, 2020
While opium addiction emerged as a region-wide scourge in the 19th century, abolitionists in the small British colony of the Straits Settlements took on the imperial government and played an instrumental role in bringing about a worldwide ban
By Wanpen Pajai • Aug 21, 2020
With 54 registered minority groups, Vietnam is a land of immense cultural diversity. Photographer Alden Anderson and his Vietnamese partner Trinh Nguyen have set out to capture this heterogeneity, traversing the country to capture portraits of each group
By Andrew Wernette • Aug 20, 2020
With Jon Swain’s cult memoir River of Time set to be adapted for the big screen, the author returns to his time in 1970s Indochina, where he witnessed death and destruction in Vietnam, the Fall of Phnom Penh and the rise of the Khmer Rouge
By Alexi Demetriadi • Aug 19, 2020
With the Mekong river under assault from climate change and damming, five of the Greater Mekong Subregion's filmmakers are offering their visions of what the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, and the communities that rely on it, will look like in a decades' time
By Ashley Lampard • Aug 18, 2020