Rights

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 04, 2017 • 10 min read

Vietnam The fearless musicians fighting back

By Bennett Murray • Aug 04, 2017
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

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 10, 2017 • 7 min read

Kem Ley Murder, mourning and martyrdom

By Colin Meyn • Jul 10, 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

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 15, 2017 • 4 min read

Opinion Cambodians must find their own justice as Khmer Rouge Tribunal breaks down

By Youk Chhang • Jun 15, 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

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • May 24, 2017 • 9 min read

Singapore The politics of hate

By Kirsten Han • May 24, 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

Rights • May 17, 2017 • 5 min read
Thailand

Selling ‘dictatorship as democracy’

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

Rights • Jan 31, 2017 • 3 min read
Drug war

Duterte halts ‘war on drugs’ to clean up police unit

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

Rights • Dec 29, 2016 • 6 min read
Mogok

Myanmar’s mysterious mining mecca

Myanmar’s miners have been left with little more than scraps following years of military plunder
By Feliz Solomon • Dec 29, 2016

Rights • Dec 08, 2016 • 8 min read
Illegal love

Hypocrisy and the war on sex

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

Rights • Nov 21, 2016 • 29 min read
Myanmar

The year after

For decades Myanmar languished under a military junta, decried as a global pariah state. Following a historic election, the country has moved closer to democracy – but the process of real reform has only just begun
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Nov 21, 2016

Rights • Oct 25, 2016 • 4 min read
Deportees

Torn apart

The US has deported more than 500 former refugees back to Cambodia for criminal activity. Southeast Asia Globe tells the story of Ly Hov Kol, who has found himself living in a land he barely knows, far away from his family
By Navet Tab • Oct 25, 2016

Rights • Sep 29, 2016 • 7 min read
Thailand

Sexual violence is not a soap

In Thai soap operas, rape is routinely depicted as a precursor to romance, with female protagonists shown falling in love with their rapists. Led by an outraged viewer, the country’s television industry is starting to examine its normalisation of sexual violence
By Ana Salvá • Sep 29, 2016