Ideology

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 11, 2018 • 13 min read

World War I The Great War’s impact on Southeast Asia

By David Hutt • Nov 11, 2018
World War I introduced nations around the world to deadlier weapons, bloody battles and each other. Though Southeast Asia was left relatively unscathed by the war, the reverberations of the conflict were felt in the region for decades

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 09, 2018 • 5 min read

Vietnam protests The ultimate bogeyman

By Anton Tsvetov • Jul 09, 2018
When the people took to the streets across the country in June, the Communist Party of Vietnam found itself facing a whole new breed of discontent that started over Chinese land leases and a new cyber law

Ideology • STORY OF THE DAY • May 03, 2018 • 9 min read

Vietnam Money trumps Marx

By David Hutt • May 03, 2018
Two centuries after the birth of Karl Marx, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has embraced capitalism with open arms – but its economic success has yet to trickle down to its working class

Ideology • Jan 15, 2018 • 8 min read
Falun Gong

Labelled a cult, some still practice Falun Gong

Despite Hanoi banning the Chinese spiritual practice of Falun Gong and labelling it a “counter-revolutionary” cult, hundreds of members still meet in Vietnam’s capital
By Bennett Murray • Jan 15, 2018

Ideology • Oct 11, 2017 • 5 min read
Opinion

The ruthless truth behind Vietnam’s corruption crackdown

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

Ideology • Oct 06, 2017 • 8 min read
Indonesia

The good jihadi

In North Sumatra, a former Indonesian radical has opened a boarding school for the children of terrorists to prevent their futures from looking like his own past
By Gabrielle Lipton • Oct 06, 2017

Ideology • Feb 27, 2017 • 11 min read
Cambodia

Pay and divide

Islamic organisations from the Middle East are pouring money into Cambodia’s Cham Muslim communities, spreading hardline teachings and threatening to drive a wedge between the Muslim minority and their Buddhist neighbours
By Paul Millar • Feb 27, 2017

Ideology • Feb 21, 2017 • 7 min read
Thailand

How tech reshapes ancient animist beliefs

Mass urbanisation and an increasingly interconnected world are pushing animism to embrace the 21st century
By David Hutt • Feb 21, 2017

Ideology • Feb 09, 2017 • 3 min read
Indonesia

Learning to teach

Southeast Asia Globe explores the austere conditions of Pondok Pesantren Lirboyo, where 6,000 male pupils ages five to 40 study to become religious teachers
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Feb 09, 2017

Ideology • Feb 01, 2017 • 9 min read
Buddhism

Pagoda problems

As Cambodia modernises and sex and drug scandals rock the monkhood, the famed saffron robes no longer command the respect they once did
By Euan Black • Feb 01, 2017

Ideology • Jun 20, 2016 • 10 min read
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

The genocide question

The Khmer Rouge, responsible for the deaths of millions of Cambodians in the 1970s, has long been synonymous with the "crime of all crimes". Yet some are questioning whether Pol Pot’s regime is guilty of genocide in all its cruel persecutions
By George Wright • Jun 20, 2016