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By Jack Davies • Jun 11, 2018
Despite documented cases of torture and abuse, immigration court files reveal that the US is sending Cambodian asylum seekers back to face political persecution
By Paul Millar, Tom O'Connell, Janelle Retka • Jun 04, 2018
Critics decry the end of an era of press freedom in Cambodia as the nation's last independent newspaper is sold to the owner of a Malaysian "covert PR" firm
By Paul Millar and Leng Len • Mar 09, 2018
A violent clash between security forces and local villagers in Kratie echoes the bloody 2012 intervention that left a teenage girl dead and a village traumatised
By Kate Walton • Mar 07, 2018
Revenge porn is running rampant in Indonesia, with numerous women reporting how the sharing of erotic videos and photos has ruined their lives. A perverse pornography law means that victims have nowhere to turn
A collection of touching personal accounts by Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh
By Adib Chowdhury • Feb 21, 2018
An unregulated pagoda environment, the status of monks and the downplaying of male rape means that sexual abuse of children in the monkhood is likely more widespread than anyone dares to admit
By Paul Millar • Feb 12, 2018
Lim Chhiv Ho is a businesswoman whose newfound luxury hasn’t stopped the nightmares of her past
By Euan Black • Nov 15, 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
Almost six years ago, Frenchman Laurent Vallier was found drowned in a pond along with his four children in rural Cambodia. Investigations have been at times farcical and fruitless – and the unsolved murder still haunts the area
By Paul Millar • Jun 16, 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
By Youk Chhang • Jun 15, 2017
With Timor-Leste recently found guilty of illegally importing talented South American players to improve their national football team, Southeast Asia Globe investigates the fake passport epidemic sweeping the region
By Jack Kerr and Dene Mullen • Jun 06, 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
By Kirsten Han • May 24, 2017