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By Foong Li Mei • Nov 24, 2017
A new unemployment insurance scheme is expected to begin early 2019, but there are disagreements over who will bear the burden and whether the plan will really benefit those who need it most
By Madeleine Keck • Nov 23, 2017
By Holly Robertson and Len Leng • Nov 01, 2017
From the environment and LGBT rights to reproductive health and women’s empowerment, Cambodia’s female-forward young activists are blazing a new path
By Euan Black • Sep 07, 2017
President Duterte’s violent crackdown has claimed its third teenage victim in as many weeks, but public horror has not stopped the extrajudicial killings
With Vietnam's only independent recording studio as their home base, artists Ngoc Dai and Mai Khoi are starting a musical rebellion against the Communist party
By Bennett Murray • Aug 04, 2017
A year after the assassination of popular political analyst Kem Ley, Southeast Asia Globe reviews the key events in one of Cambodia's great modern tragedies
By Colin Meyn • Jul 10, 2017
Almost 40 years after Pol Pot’s bloody regime was toppled, judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have indicated that the three remaining cases will not proceed. But Cambodia's quest to show ‘the supremacy of civilisation over inhumanity’ should not be abandoned so lightly, argues Youk Chhang
By Youk Chhang • Jun 15, 2017
By criminalising insult, Singapore’s government says it is avoiding religious discord and hurt feelings. But the protection is selective and, some say, dangerous
By Kirsten Han • May 24, 2017
Thailand’s rulers are doing everything in their power to stop the people from choosing who controls their country, writes exiled journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall
By Andrew MacGregor Marshall • May 17, 2017
The drug war is on hold as the Philippine police force seeks to rid itself of corrupt “scalawags” – but the president has vowed to continue his deadly campaign through 2022
By Logan Connor • Jan 31, 2017
Myanmar’s miners have been left with little more than scraps following years of military plunder
By Feliz Solomon • Dec 29, 2016
The Islamist push for a ban on extramarital sex runs counter to the nation’s more liberal sexual practices
By Sam Bradpiece • Dec 08, 2016