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By Kate Walton • Sep 09, 2019
With Jakarta steadily sinking, President Joko Widodo has announced that a new capital will be built on the island of Borneo. So how will the new city be different?
By Paul Millar • Aug 21, 2019
The Kingdom's open economy has been hailed as a triumph of the free market. But as growing foreign investment in the Kingdom’s real estate sector threatens to price locals out of the market, the time has come to ensure that economic growth serves all Cambodians, not just a wealthy few
By Yohanes Sulaiman • Aug 13, 2019
Ahead of Indonesia's Independence Day on August 17, Indonesian political analyst Yohanes Sulaiman looks at the prospect of reform during recently re-elected President Joko Widodo’s second term
By Hunter Marston • Jul 19, 2019
Three decades after Aung San Suu Kyi was first sentenced to house arrest for her fight for democracy in Myanmar, the Nobel laureate is now arguably the main obstacle to the country putting its past behind it
From our print archive: a handful of people have made a fortune dealing in illegal drugs. The rest of the population lives in extreme poverty. Southeast Asia Globe visits Myanmar's isolated Wa State
By Torgeir Norling • Jun 11, 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
By Robin Spiess • Jun 03, 2019
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
The Philippines’ south has long been mired in conflict, but with so many different factions and splinter groups, it’s hard to know your BIFFs from your MILFs. Here’s our who’s who of the most important players in the conflict
By Thomas Brent • Feb 07, 2019
With Vietnam set for the next Trump-Kim summit, figures on both sides of the table are touting Vietnam’s Doi Moi reforms as a model for North Korea’s own economic liberalisation. But with a nuclear arsenal, a more prosperous neighbour to the south and decades since the Cold War, Kim Jong-un may choose to walk a different path
By Paul Millar • Jan 15, 2019
The Arakan Army was formed just under ten years ago but has quickly grown into a fierce military force in Myanmar. Its latest attacks, which fell on the country’s Independence Day, prompted an unprecedented response from Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, whose office ordered the state army to “crush” the insurgency group. But what will a crackdown achieve and why has the government called for it?
By Thomas Brent • Jan 15, 2019
Fuelled by rampant poverty and fears that rising automation will strip millions of low-skilled workers of their livelihoods, more and more countries are exploring the idea of a universal basic income that guarantees a livelihood for all their citizens
By Paul Millar • Jan 14, 2019
Five years after Aun Pornmoniroth became Cambodia’s finance minister, he shares his vision for the Kingdom’s economy with Southeast Asia Globe
By Janelle Retka • Aug 16, 2018