Life

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Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 11, 2015 • 11 min read

Luxe lifestyle Luxury brands court Southeast Asia’s consumers

By Dene Mullen • Dec 11, 2015
The world’s most prestigious brands are working hard to attract the region’s swelling middle class. To achieve success, they must seek to understand the Southeast Asian consumer, create compelling digital content and offer unrivalled boutique experiences

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 20, 2015 • 3 min read

Culture Bring out your dead

By Agung Parameswara • Nov 20, 2015
In Indonesia, the remarkable ma’nene ritual reveals the Toraja ethnic group’s deep devotion to their deceased relatives

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 06, 2015 • 11 min read

Cambodia The forgotten men

By David Hutt • Nov 06, 2015
Huge numbers of males are raped in Cambodia. So why do these horrific crimes remain largely ignored by rights organisations and the media?

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 22, 2015 • 8 min read

Knowledge-based economy Follow the leader

By Kevin Ponniah • Oct 22, 2015
Southeast Asian nations will eventually need to swap farming for flash drives and become knowledge-based economies. Singapore is already showing how it’s done

Life • Oct 09, 2015 • 11 min read
Supernatural

Singapore’s ghost hunters

Join Singapore's paranormal investigators for a night of ghost hunting in the city-state
By David Hutt • Oct 09, 2015

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Life • Sep 23, 2015 • 7 min read
Travel

Dili delights

One doesn’t need to leave the capital of Timor-Leste to find a bucolic paradise where world-class beaches and historical sites vie for visitors’ attention in one of the region’s best-kept travel secrets
By David Hutt • Sep 23, 2015

Life • Aug 14, 2015 • 7 min read
Timor-Leste

Blood and feathers

In Timor-Leste, young men used to prove their worth by decapitating members of rival tribes. Now they do battle via the country’s cockfighting pits. Southeast Asia Globe delves into a world of masculinity, spiralling debt and martial arts gangs
By David Hutt • Aug 14, 2015

Life • Aug 09, 2015 • 9 min read
Rappler

In the face of power

Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO of the Philippines-based news website Rappler, is changing Southeast Asia’s media industry for a digital age
By Miguel Miranda • Aug 09, 2015

Life • Aug 06, 2015 • 10 min read
Education

To the future we go

From Skyping astronauts to virtual reality tours, classroom technology is taking the region’s students far beyond the boundaries of the traditional school
By Jemma Galvin • Aug 06, 2015

Life • Jul 07, 2015 • 10 min read
Tim Page

“Without the Vietnam war, I wouldn’t be”

He shot some of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War, but Tim Page became just as famous for his ferocious appetite for life. Now 71 years old, the famed photographer says he still hasn’t taken his best picture
By David Hutt • Jul 07, 2015

Life • Jul 03, 2015 • 1 min read
Aerial photography

A region in view

Google Earth celebrated its tenth birthday by uploading some fantastic ariel shots of the planet, including this selection from Southeast Asia
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Jul 03, 2015

Life • Jul 02, 2015 • 10 min read
Interview

The thinking man’s troublemaker: Noam Chomsky

Derided by Washington powerbrokers and ignored by swathes of the mainstream media, Noam Chomsky is, nonetheless, said to be the eighth most frequently cited academic source of all time – coming in just below Plato and Freud. Southeast Asia Globe spoke with the world’s most famed public intellectual and political firebrand about the growing threat of conflict between the US and China and the roles of both superpowers in the region
By David Hutt • Jul 02, 2015