Culture

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 20, 2018 • 9 min read

Cambodia Beyond yesterday’s cinema

By Cristyn Lloyd • Aug 20, 2018
Plagued by the low-budget horror and comedy flicks that have always proved successful among local audiences, a new group of filmmakers is daring to reinvent the industry

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 15, 2018 • 3 min read

Manuscript to bookshop Inside Singapore’s world of publishing

By Janelle Retka • Aug 15, 2018
For over a decade, Phoon Kok Hwa has coached authors on how to get their manuscript into bookshops as publisher at Candid Creation Publishing, a leading firm in Singapore. He’s helped transform the family-run business from a company focused on Chinese-language books to English-language business and self-help books

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 14, 2018 • 7 min read

Architecture Building a brighter Cambodia

By Janelle Retka • Aug 14, 2018
When 35-year-old Hok Kang launched his career a decade ago, he wanted to change Cambodians’ perception of architecture. Since then, he has helped create Brown Coffee's look, trained up young architects at his own firm and ventured into high-end real-estate development by founding UrbanLand

Culture • Aug 14, 2018 • 3 min read
Social Enterprise

Food for thought

Using the culinary expertise of refugees, a catering project in Malaysia is hoping to not only improve lives, but also to break down barriers and change discriminatory attitudes
By Thomas Brent • Aug 14, 2018

Culture • Aug 13, 2018 • 12 min read
Myanmar

Hate speech on Facebook still persists

In a nation where ethnic and religious hatreds have long simmered and occasionally boiled over, social media represents a brave new digital frontier where news battles with hearsay, gossip and threats that can have deadly consequences
By Libby Hogan • Aug 13, 2018

Culture • Aug 09, 2018 • 4 min read
Chin tribes

Myanmar’s tattooed women: An artist’s interpretation

The indigenous Chin people have a unique tradition of tattooing the women’s faces. In 2012, Belgian artist Christian Develter travelled to meet these women, which served as an inspiration for his series Chin Urban & Tribal. He discusses his experience of living with the tribes, and his thoughts on the now-illegal tattooing practice
By Thomas Brent • Aug 09, 2018

Culture • Aug 06, 2018 • 3 min read
Those Long Haired Nights

Filipino film highlights struggle for transgender rights

With its true-to-life representation of transgender sex workers in Manila, Gerardo Calagui’s 2017 film Those Long Haired Nights is not afraid to court controversy. Southeast Asia Globe spoke with the Filipino director about the film and the challenges facing the LGBT+ community in his homeland
By Cristyn Lloyd • Aug 06, 2018

Culture • Aug 01, 2018 • 9 min read
Tanimbar Islands

One man’s journey of possession and exorcism

As a young anthropologist, Will Buckingham's voyage to the Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia made a lasting impression on his life. He talks to Southeast Asia Globe about his recently published book, which recounts his fascinating time there
By Lesly Lotha • Aug 01, 2018

Culture • Jul 25, 2018 • 7 min read
Ho Chi Minh's Hollywood

A Vietnamese dream

Award-winning US filmmaker and producer Timothy Linh Bui relocated his company Happy Canvas Film to his ancestors’ homeland. Since then, his team has been providing a new take on the Southeast Asian country for the world to see
By Janelle Retka • Jul 25, 2018

Culture • Jul 18, 2018 • 7 min read
Archaeology

The little-known history of Cambodia’s ‘dark age’

While the post-Angkorian period is considered to be a dark time in the Kingdom’s history, an ongoing excavation at the country’s former capital city Longvek – now just a small village – offers evidence to suggest otherwise
By Lesly Lotha • Jul 18, 2018

Culture • Jul 18, 2018 • 7 min read
Apsara Dancing

Not Cambodian enough

The Kingdom’s first contemporary dance company updates ancient moves, defying a conservative establishment
By Nathan A. Thompson • Jul 18, 2018