Culture

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 03, 2020 • 6 min read

Covid-19 Running down the clock

By Andrew Haffner • Apr 03, 2020
If March felt like the longest month of your life, you’re not alone. Duke University's Professor Adrian Bejan explains how our perceptions of time are warped when we are overloaded with new information, like during a global pandemic

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 31, 2020 • 9 min read

Tales of the Pandemic Evicted from Harvard, returning to Singapore

By Yong Han Poh • Mar 31, 2020
Singaporean Yong Han Poh has called Harvard University home for the past four years. But when the global pandemic hit, it all came to an abrupt end, with her forced to pack her life up and leave for good virtually overnight

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 30, 2020 • 14 min read

Statelessness in Thailand The state of being

By Magdalena Rojo • Mar 30, 2020
A holder of various international awards for social and environmental activism, Tuenjai Deetes has dedicated her life to eliminating statelessness in Thailand, fighting for the citizenship rights of the country's remote northern hill tribes

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 26, 2020 • 6 min read

Rohingya photography A life in pictures

By Andrew Haffner • Mar 26, 2020
Driven from their homes and living in arduous conditions, three Rohingya refugees have been equipped with smart phones and trained in photography in order to document day-to-day life in Bangladesh's refugee camps

Culture • Mar 25, 2020 • 11 min read
Southeast Asian languages

The power of script

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
By Zachary Frye • Mar 25, 2020

Culture • Mar 20, 2020 • 10 min read
Cambodian rock

Cambodia’s ‘diva of the rice fields’

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
By Miriam Deprez • Mar 20, 2020

Culture • Mar 12, 2020 • 11 min read
Tradition

Crumbling walls

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
By Words by Marielle Lucenio, photos by Leo Solinap • Mar 12, 2020

Culture • Feb 28, 2020 • 5 min read
Thailand photography

Uncle Chet’s meat supply

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
By Marcel Mayer • Feb 28, 2020

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 • Feb 25, 2020

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 • Feb 24, 2020

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 • Feb 19, 2020

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 • Feb 18, 2020