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Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 17, 2015 • 6 min read

Vietnam's Trap DJs No country for old men: trap music in Ho Chi Minh City

By Logan Connor • Jun 17, 2015
Named after drug dens in the United States’ dirty south, trap music is one of the region’s more unlikely musical imports. But the youth of Ho Chi Minh City are hoisting on high-tops, slipping on snapbacks and embracing the genre

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 20, 2015 • 12 min read

Cambodia's working class Power to the people?

By David Hutt • Apr 20, 2015
Much attention has been paid to Cambodia’s burgeoning middle class, but the emergence of a working class to complement it has rarely been discussed. Many experts agree that it is here and it is vitally important to the country’s economic and political prospects

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 26, 2015 • 3 min read

Singer Top five: Pop-tastic songbirds

By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Mar 26, 2015
Southeast Asian songstresses are doing the region proud

Life • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 24, 2015 • 3 min read

Rites of our ancestors

By Agung Parameswara • Mar 24, 2015
The animist beliefs of Marapu are a basis for guidance, cultural identity and social values on the Indonesian isle of Sumba

Life • Feb 26, 2015 • 3 min read
Poetry

"Have I become stateless?"

The latest part of a Southeast Asia Globe series that shines a light on the region’s finest poetry – this month verse from Myanmar
By Nathan A. Thompson • Feb 26, 2015

Life • Feb 20, 2015 • 4 min read
Indonesia

On a wind and a prayer

As part of his modern re-telling of Sindbad the Sailor, photographer Beat Presser boarded traditional pinisi cargo boats
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Feb 20, 2015

Life • Jan 13, 2015 • 7 min read

Degrees of difficulty

Problems with student visas are transforming Malaysia from an attractive education hub to a foreign student’s worst nightmare
By Marco Ferrarese • Jan 13, 2015

Life • Jan 07, 2015 • 7 min read
Vietnam

Custody battle

Within the police force, communist ideals trump education and inflicting pain is the preferred interrogation technique, adding up to a deadly environment inside the nation’s prisons
By Laila Drake • Jan 07, 2015

Life • Dec 19, 2014 • 3 min read
Cambodia

Hun Sen “misinformed” over Cambodia’s mass HIV infection, says Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Virologist jointly credited with discovering HIV calls for calm Françoise Barré-Sinoussi – credited along with her colleague Luc Montagnier as the discoverer of HIV – has said that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been “misinformed”, following his comments regarding an outbreak of the virus in Battambang province, in Cambodia’s northwest
By David Hutt and Dene Mullen • Dec 19, 2014

Life • Dec 17, 2014 • 5 min read
divine healing

An atmosphere for miracles

Deep in a quiet Phnom Penh neighbourhood, a charismatic pastor leads boisterous Sunday services known for their lively music and vigorous dancing – and claims of miracle cures
By Marta Kasztelan • Dec 17, 2014

Life • Nov 21, 2014 • 1 min read
Photography

Image nation

From its people to its palaces, its rituals to its stunning natural beauty, Myanmar is a land of mystery and intrigue. Photographer Nathan Horton offers budding shutterbugs some insider tips for documenting their travels using a selection of his favourite frames from the Land of Golden Pagodas
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Nov 21, 2014

Life • Nov 01, 2014 • 7 min read
Vietnam

Time to eat dog!

The taste for dog meat has long been a contentious issue for outsiders. But now the battle has been taken up
By Amanda Saxton • Nov 01, 2014