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By Alastair McCready • Sep 04, 2020
Today, Manila is a sprawling metropolis largely dominated by anonymous high-rise condominium blocks, shopping malls and traffic-clogged highways. But back in the 1960s, more evident was a clean, sleek and modernising city displaying an abundance of character
By Ashley Lampard • Sep 03, 2020
As a look back in history for the 75th anniversary of Vietnamese independence, the Globe reflects on how prisons became a symbol for colonial oppression, a breeding ground for communism, and ultimately gave life to the 1945 August Revolution
By Ron Lopez and Cecil Morella/AFP • Aug 31, 2020
The closure of 53 regional ABS-CBN television and radio stations that broadcast in six languages will deprive millions of Filipinos of their main source of local news and entertainment
By Wanpen Pajai • Aug 21, 2020
While opium addiction emerged as a region-wide scourge in the 19th century, abolitionists in the small British colony of the Straits Settlements took on the imperial government and played an instrumental role in bringing about a worldwide ban
With 54 registered minority groups, Vietnam is a land of immense cultural diversity. Photographer Alden Anderson and his Vietnamese partner Trinh Nguyen have set out to capture this heterogeneity, traversing the country to capture portraits of each group
By Andrew Wernette • Aug 20, 2020
With Jon Swain’s cult memoir River of Time set to be adapted for the big screen, the author returns to his time in 1970s Indochina, where he witnessed death and destruction in Vietnam, the Fall of Phnom Penh and the rise of the Khmer Rouge
By Alexi Demetriadi • Aug 19, 2020
With the Mekong river under assault from climate change and damming, five of the Greater Mekong Subregion's filmmakers are offering their visions of what the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, and the communities that rely on it, will look like in a decades' time
By Ashley Lampard • Aug 18, 2020
Tales of Thailand, a new student-led platform, is aiming to build bridges over Thailand’s wealth chasm and raise awareness among the kingdom's youth by shining a light on the struggles of everyday Thais
By Tara Abhasakun • Aug 18, 2020
Spurred on by rapid economic growth, Vietnam has been one of the fastest evolving nations on earth by virtually every metric for decades. This collection of photos from the 90s, showing a country markedly different from today's Vietnam, lays testament to that
By Saigoneer • Aug 17, 2020
The history and legacy of revolutionary leader Saw Ba U Gyi is little-known outside, or inside, Myanmar. But 70 years since his death, the fight first forged by the beret-wearing father of the Karen nationalist movement continues on
By Oliver Slow • Aug 17, 2020
Flowers Nanobrewery isn’t trying to break the Angkor monopoly on the Cambodian beer market, but the one-man, Japanese-run nanobrewery in Kampot is trying to preserve its distinct craft beer creations and identity
By Alexi Demetriadi • Aug 07, 2020
On the Malay Peninsula, a small community of Portuguese creole speakers survives almost four centuries since the southern Europeans were expelled from the region. On the brink of extinction, there are people working to preserve this rare language and culture
By Lee Ying Shan • Aug 06, 2020