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By Robin Spiess • Jul 16, 2019
In part two of our deep dive into modern-day piracy, we investigate why the region's governments seem willing to turn a blind eye to the pirates plundering their seas
By Robin Spiess • Jul 15, 2019
High-seas hijackings are often seen as a thing of the past. But experts say that Southeast Asia's modern-day pirates have just become better at hiding their crimes
By Robin Spiess • Jun 13, 2019
In Cambodia, entrenched corruption has given birth to a grey market for new luxury vehicles – a market that threatens to force official importers out of the country and stifle the local economy
By Robin Spiess • Jun 03, 2019
As dozens of casinos set up shop in Cambodia each year, they stand to make millions annually – but the Kingdom has yet to rake in its fair share of the industry’s rising profits
Ten years to the day after being sworn in as prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak is standing trial for a slew of corruption and money laundering crimes. Asia Institute Tasmania director James Chin explains what the corruption trial means for the region’s once-untouchable political elite
By Paul Millar • Apr 03, 2019
A Cambodian translator helped foreign journalists film a documentary about alleged sex trafficking in the Kingdom. Authorities now claim the film’s subjects said they were paid to be in the film. The translator’s wife, who visited him in prison, tells Southeast Asia Globe that her husband is afraid, sick and innocent
By Matt Surrusco • Dec 15, 2018
Vietnam is the latest country in Southeast Asia to begin a high-profile crusade against corruption. However, a few spectacular arrests are nowhere near enough in a region beset by graft
By Alejandro Salas • Mar 28, 2018
Spurred by Donald Trump's example, regional leaders are using the accusation of 'fake news' to silence critics
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Feb 14, 2018
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…
By Calvin Godfrey • Oct 11, 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
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
By Colin Meyn • May 09, 2017
While some government ministries have made progress in the fight against corruption, Cambodia continues to languish in the lower reaches of Transparency International’s 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index
By Euan Black • Jan 26, 2017