Corruption

Corruption • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 11, 2017 • 5 min read

Opinion The ruthless truth behind Vietnam’s corruption crackdown

By Calvin Godfrey • Oct 11, 2017
The anti-corruption campaigns of Vietnam’s Communist party always feel like inscrutable performance pieces – symposiums on the merits of female modesty held in strip clubs. They just don’t make sense, given the business model.  Even as the party oversaw decades of massive economic growth, it…

Corruption • 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

Corruption • STORY OF THE DAY • May 09, 2017 • 12 min read

Politics The price of loyalty

By Colin Meyn • May 09, 2017
Prime Minister Hun Sen's party dominated the last round of commune elections in 2012. But much has changed, and local polls in June will test whether the system that has kept Southeast Asia’s longest-serving leader in power is crumbling

Corruption • 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

Corruption • Feb 14, 2013 • 7 min read
law and order

Justice in the dock

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