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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 12, 2020 • 6 min read

Thailand railways Rolling into the future

By Tim Russell • Feb 12, 2020
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

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 05, 2020 • 11 min read

Music festivals Greening the festival circuit

By Andrew Haffner • Feb 05, 2020
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?

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 31, 2020 • 2 min read
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By Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra • Jan 31, 2020
A talented artist, MORRISON POLKINGHORNE, will be taking over the Gallery at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra from February to April 2020 to showcase his unique art technique by the adaptation of pointillism classical art form.

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 27, 2020 • 4 min read

Life in the city-state Singapore after dark

By Tom White • Jan 27, 2020
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

Culture • Jan 17, 2020 • 6 min read
Women in Indonesia

Dare Devi: Riding Satan’s barrel

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
By Agoes Rudianto • Jan 17, 2020

Culture • Jan 16, 2020 • 8 min read
Tuk-tuks in Southeast Asia

It came, it conquered

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
By Clive Graham-Ranger • Jan 16, 2020

Culture • Jan 13, 2020 • 10 min read
Art and politics

Reclaiming artistic expression

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
By Samantha McCabe • Jan 13, 2020

Culture • Jan 06, 2020 • 6 min read
Bangkok's gentrification

The many faces of Khlongtoey

Bangkok's fabled Khlongtoey slum has long been regarded as a 'no-go zone' in the city by many. But now, facing destruction as the latest victim of the government's city-wide sanitising project, British photographer Tim Russell shines a light on the much-maligned community's vibrant characters and warm spirit
By Tim Russell • Jan 06, 2020

Culture • Dec 24, 2019 • 7 min read
Southeast Asian hip-hop

Finding refuge in breakdancing

From civil war and genocide, to US refugees and deportees, Cambodia’s emerging breakdancing and hip-hop scene has been more than four decades in the making, moulded by profound social forces
By Alastair McCready • Dec 24, 2019

Culture • Dec 17, 2019 • 15 min read
Communities on the river

Currents of time

In 1991, National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita traversed the length of the Mekong, from source to sea, in a groundbreaking trip documenting the communities for which the river was so central to life. The Globe sat down with Yamashita to reflect on his journey almost three decades on, as well as hear his thoughts on the dams and environmental degradation blighting the river today
By Andrew Haffner • Dec 17, 2019

Culture • Dec 03, 2019 • 7 min read
Socially conscious art

Snapping social issues

Filipino 37-year-old documentary photographer Vicente Jaime R. Villafranca has covered his home country’s under-examined and misunderstood issues for years. He spoke to Southeast Asia Globe about gaining a gang’s trust and how the climate crisis is impacting low-income communities.
By Samantha McCabe • Dec 03, 2019

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 • Nov 25, 2019

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE