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By Silvia Boccardi • Jan 25, 2019
Southeast Asia Globe speaks with foreign workers and the aid organisations that help them get back on their feet after on-the-job injuries force them to battle with employers. A new law that takes effect in April could change the game
By Matt Surrusco • Dec 15, 2018
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 Charles Dunst • Dec 14, 2018
After nearly 20 years and $320m in cost, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) landed its first genocide conviction of high-level officers in the Pol Pot regime. A looming judicial stalemate on the fate of two more cases could lead to the ECCC’s termination
By Paul Millar • Aug 30, 2018
Almost a decade since the last execution in Thailand, a 26-year-old man was killed by lethal injection. And though no one is saying why the nation has suddenly reversed its position on capital punishment, rumours that it is connected to the royal succession are difficult to ignore
Vietnamese-American Will Nguyen was arrested and beaten by police in Vietnam earlier this year for his involvement in countrywide protests. He speaks to Southeast Asia Globe about his experience in custody and why he got involved
By Tom O'Connell • Aug 17, 2018
It is exactly two years since Cambodia’s prominent human rights defender Tep Vanny was jailed after protesting against the imprisonment of a group of rights workers known as the Adhoc 5. Southeast Asia Globe looks at her story so far
By Lesly Lotha • Aug 15, 2018
In a nation where ethnic and religious hatreds have long simmered and occasionally boiled over, social media represents a brave new digital frontier where news battles with hearsay, gossip and threats that can have deadly consequences
By Libby Hogan • Aug 13, 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 Jack Davies • Jun 11, 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, Tom O'Connell, Janelle Retka • Jun 04, 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 Paul Millar and Leng Len • Mar 09, 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
By Kate Walton • Mar 07, 2018
A collection of touching personal accounts by Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh
By Adib Chowdhury • Feb 21, 2018