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By Miguel Miranda • Aug 09, 2015
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 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
By Laila Drake • Jan 07, 2015
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 Amanda Saxton • Nov 01, 2014
The taste for dog meat has long been a contentious issue for outsiders. But now the battle has been taken up
Plans for a purpose-built hamlet envision opportunity, equality and recognition for the little people of the Philippines
By Eric San Juan • Feb 28, 2014
Every day, hundreds of men, women and children risk their lives mining for gems in a remote corner of Cambodia. A young miner and his father share their stories and struggles as they carve out an existence
By Jennifer Meszaros • Feb 10, 2014
Myanmar’s LGBT community suffers abuse, stigma and the legacy of colonial and dictatorial rule. Slowly, however, it is mobilising and finding a voice
By Carlos Sardiña Galache • Dec 06, 2013
11.3% of Cambodian men had raped a woman in the past year. Here, four sex workers share their shocking stories of rape, gang rape and violence
By Denise Hruby • Nov 15, 2013
There is nothing sweet about life for the exploited labourers of Cambodia's sugar fields
By Clothilde Le Coz • May 10, 2013
In a pioneering project on the paradise island of Koh Samui, female prisoners are learning useful skills for life on the outside
By Southeast Asia Globe • Mar 27, 2013
The spotlight has once again been cast on the Kingdom’s fractured judiciary. What are the roots of its problems?
By Bridget Di Certo • Feb 14, 2013
Rejected by their families, Indonesia’s mentally unwell are often subjected to torturous conditions in underfunded institutions
By Dene Mullen • Jan 04, 2013