Culture

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 30, 2016 • 11 min read

Gaggan Anand: “The guest is not always right”

By Dene Mullen • Aug 30, 2016
He spent his youth battling poverty and dreaming of rock stardom. But after a career volte-face, Gaggan Anand has become a highly successful chef, with his restaurant recently named the best in Asia for the second consecutive year. The only trouble is, he’s already tiring of his celebrity chef status

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 19, 2016 • 7 min read

Vietnam From pop star to protest singer

By Logan Connor • Aug 19, 2016
Vietnamese pop singer Mai Khoi was recently barred from running for an independent seat in the communist state’s National Assembly. Now, “Vietnam’s Lady Gaga” is leveraging her star power in an effort to bring change to her country 

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 10, 2016 • 9 min read

George Town Heritage lives in Penang

By Daniel Besant • Aug 10, 2016
George Town’s charming heritage buildings are repurposed by Penang citizens devoted to resurrecting the city's identity

Culture • Jul 25, 2016 • 7 min read
Indonesia

Turning profit into progress

Coffee cultivation is putting the world's tropical forests in peril, but some Indonesian coffee farmers are proving that ecology and economy can coexist
By Gabrielle Dunlevy • Jul 25, 2016

Culture • Jul 14, 2016 • 8 min read
Coaching

Trading advice and inspiration for cash

The region’s swelling middle class is fuelling a rise in Southeast Asian self-help gurus dispensing motivation and advice
By Justin Calderon • Jul 14, 2016

Culture • Jul 13, 2016 • 8 min read
Craft Beer

Southeast Asia’s beer revolution

In Cambodia and further afield in Southeast Asia, craft breweries and brewpubs are now catering to a more discerning caste of beer drinkers
By Logan Connor • Jul 13, 2016

Culture • Jul 08, 2016 • 9 min read
Professional Gaming

Leagues of legends

Video gaming is becoming a global phenomenon, generating multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals and celebrity investments. Now Southeast Asia is trying to cash in
By Logan Connor • Jul 08, 2016

Culture • Jun 27, 2016 • 7 min read
Literature

A desire to belong

Amid marginalisation of refugee communities in the US, Vietnamese-American poets feel a sense of displacement
By Paul Millar • Jun 27, 2016

Culture • Jun 17, 2016 • 9 min read

Conserving Cambodia’s cultural treasures

In Phnom Penh and Penang, experts in art conservation are meticulously preserving Cambodia’s artistic legacy, but a punishing climate and scarcity of resources have forced them to get creative 
By Daniel Besant • Jun 17, 2016

Culture • Jun 10, 2016 • 9 min read
Myanmar

Cheese for a land of rice

When Ye Htut Win launched his gourmet food enterprise in Yangon, most wrote him off as a "nutcase". Now, he's at the helm of a growing empire
By Holly Robertson • Jun 10, 2016