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Power • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 23, 2020 • 11 min read

Lee Kuan Yew The founding father

By Michael Barr • Mar 23, 2020
Five years ago on March 23, Singapore's former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew passed away at the age of 91. Professor Michael Barr discusses the enduring legacy of the city-state's founding father

Power • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 18, 2020 • 8 min read

Cambodian history The 50-year legacy

By Samantha McCabe and Andrew Haffner • Mar 18, 2020
50 years ago on March 18 1970, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk was overthrown in what is widely regarded a bloodless coup by military general Lon Nol. The tragic events that befell Cambodia in the decade after would go on to shape the Kingdom for generations, with the effects still visible to this day

Power • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 17, 2020 • 6 min read

Whatever happened to Cambodia’s ‘HIV village’

By Paul Millar • Mar 17, 2020
Archive Top Read: In 2014, an unlicensed medic infected almost 300 people with HIV in Battambang province's Roka village. In 2017, we visited the residents of the village, who were still picking up the pieces three years on

Power • Mar 16, 2020 • 11 min read
ASEM summit 2020

Shining on the global stage

With Cambodia set to host the high-profile Europe-Asia cooperation summit ASEM 2020 come November, Robert Hör of think tank KAS explains why he believes the meet could be crucial in setting Cambodia back on track on the global stage
By Robert Hör • Mar 16, 2020

Power • Mar 13, 2020 • 4 min read
Press freedom

Reporters Without Borders labels Vietnam, Philippines worst for spreading disinformation

Marking the 10th annual World Day Against Cyber Censorship on March 12, press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders listed Vietnam and the Philippines as among the top-four worst countries in the world for spreading state-sponsored disinformation online
By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Mar 13, 2020

Power • Mar 13, 2020 • 12 min read
Rohingya crisis

The power of the persecuted

Young Canada-based Rohingya activist Yasmin Ullah has helped take the plight of the persecuted ethnic minority group in Myanmar to the world’s largest court, yet her fight for justice has only just begun
By Miriam Deprez • Mar 13, 2020

Power • Mar 04, 2020 • 15 min read
Cambodian democracy

Courting opposition

Despite a boom in supposed opposition parties filling the void left by the CNRP, true democracy in Cambodia seems farther out of grasp than ever before
By Andrew Haffner • Mar 04, 2020

Power • Mar 02, 2020 • 12 min read
Deep South conflict

At the negotiating table

This week, the Thai government and Malay Muslims are engaging in a peace dialogue that seems among the best hopes yet of resolving decades of violence in the country's Deep South. Observers are cautiously optimistic, but at the grassroots level, not everyone in the southern provinces agrees
By Lukas Messmer • Mar 02, 2020

Power • Feb 21, 2020 • 14 min read
Thai democracy

After the Future

Thailand's Future Forward Party face the imminent threat of dissolution on February 21, but a new generation of emboldened grassroots anti-junta activists are ready to lead the charge in their place
By Andrew Haffner • Feb 21, 2020

Power • Feb 17, 2020 • 11 min read
Thai democracy

Thanathorn: Future on trial

Thai opposition figure Thanathorn speaks exclusively to Southeast Asia Globe about the charges he and his Future Forward Party face, his plans should the party be dissolved, as well as upcoming protests in the kingdom
By Andrew Haffner • Feb 17, 2020

Power • Feb 14, 2020 • 11 min read
Coronavirus

The virus and the vitriol

As coronavirus spreads and worsens across the globe, fear has come along with it, fuelling anti-Chinese sentiment. In Southeast Asia, this discrimination might have deeper economic and political underpinnings
By Samantha McCabe • Feb 14, 2020