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Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 08, 2020 • 8 min read

Covid-19 As Thailand’s tourism plunges, elephants suffer

By Carolyn Cowan • Apr 08, 2020
Thailand's captive elephants are facing food shortages and an uncertain future as Covid-19 has forced camp closures throughout the country. Without tourists and income, the scramble to feed them highlights the shortcomings of the kingdom's captive elephant care system

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 07, 2020 • 2 min read

Covid-19 Overcrowded Thai dog shelter blames coronavirus for drop in donations

By Agence France-Presse • Apr 07, 2020
Donations of food and money have dramatically decreased at Auntie Ju's controversial shelter for stray dogs in Bangkok since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving the some 1,500 dogs being housed there with little to survive on

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 06, 2020 • 9 min read

Tales of the Pandemic The endless sirens of Kuala Lumpur

By Syahiirah Junaidi • Apr 06, 2020
On the outskirts of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, Syahiirah Junaidi is closed off from much of the outside world. One of the few real-life connections she has left is the sound of sirens, reminding her just how many people are falling ill

Culture • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 04, 2020 • 6 min read

Demining in Cambodia Every dog has its day

By Miriam Deprez • Apr 04, 2020
April 4 marks the International Day for Mine Awareness. Around the world, there are four-legged bomb detectors who quietly risk their lives each day, gaining little fan fair. But in Cambodia, these unsung canine heroes have been given a home in which to enjoy their well-earned retirement

Culture • Apr 03, 2020 • 6 min read
Covid-19

Running down the clock

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
By Andrew Haffner

Culture • Mar 31, 2020 • 9 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Evicted from Harvard, returning to Singapore

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
By Yong Han Poh

Culture • Mar 30, 2020 • 14 min read
Statelessness in Thailand

The state of being

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
By Magdalena Rojo

Culture • Mar 26, 2020 • 6 min read
Rohingya photography

A life in pictures

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
By Andrew Haffner

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

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

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

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