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Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 04, 2022 • 4 min read

Street food Street cravings: Phnom Penh delivers night bowls of kuy teav

By Text by Stew Post. Photos and video by Anton L. Delgado • Jan 04, 2022
Nearly two years into the pandemic, the capital’s noodle callers serving the prized pork-based soup have proved resilient under extraordinary circumstances

Life • Dec 24, 2021 • 15 min read
Workers' rights

Under-Protected Abroad, Domestic Workers Find Ways to Resist

Southeast Asian domestic labourers often migrate to wealthier countries where they are excluded from labour protections and left vulnerable to abuse. While Covid-19 has made labour conditions worse, some migrant workers have found their own ways to resist
By Lam Le • Dec 24, 2021

Life • Dec 23, 2021 • 8 min read
Migrant workers

Bounded Amidst Restrictions

Indonesian migrant workers face an arduous fate amidst the pandemic. We look at the trials and tribulation of these workers the government considers “heroes of foreign exchange reserves” during the pandemic
By Caesar Akbar • Dec 23, 2021