Southeast Asia

The business behind Southeast Asia's booming music festivals

As the owner and director of Feedback Asia and Gig Life Asia, Priya Dewan is hooked into the region’s music scene. She discusses how she has tapped into the business opportunities surrounding music festivals
By Sam Bradpiece • Nov 28, 2016

Emotional new documentary chronicles Cambodia's forgotten children

Acclaimed French director Xavier de Lauzanne sat down with Southeast Asia Globe to discuss his new documentary, Les Pépites, which looks at the story of Phnom Penh-based NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant
By Sam Bradpiece • Nov 28, 2016

Meet the man behind Chiang Mai’s newest contemporary art museum

In July 2016, Thai businessman Eric Bunnag Booth unveiled MAIIAM, a visually striking contemporary art museum in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai with grand visions to fuel a healthy market of art collectors in the country. We meet with the 47-year-old marketing whizz and art collector to find out how he is applying the lessons he learned in the stock market and the textile trade to the simmering – and often unpredictable – art world
By Rachna Sachasinh • Nov 26, 2016

Tourism

The road to nowhere: exploring Thailand’s Trang islands

A quest to see Thailand’s elusive dugong has inspired many a trip to the Trang islands, but it’s the impeccable isolation that enchants most visitors to this charming archipelago
By arjuna • Nov 25, 2016

Indonesia readies itself for more Ahok protests

Protestors are planning to gather today in Jakarta in the hope of forcing the city’s Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, out of office for comments he made allegedly insulting the Qur’an Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja ‘Ahok’ Purnama (C) talks to journalists shortly after investigation by the police in Jakarta,…
By Logan Connor • Nov 25, 2016

Q&A: Cambodian rock star Jimmy Kiss

Ahead of his performance at the International Jazz Festival Phnom Penh, Cambodian musician Jimmy Kiss sat down with Southeast Asia Globe to discuss his first foray into jazz and drawing inspiration from the Cambodian countryside
By Logan Connor • Nov 24, 2016

Philippines: locking up nine-year-old children won’t stop drug dealers exploiting them

As the Philippine government debates lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to nine, human rights activists maintain that older criminals would continue to take advantage of them
By Logan Connor • Nov 23, 2016

Is there any hope for peace in Thailand's troubled south?

Amid faltering peace talks between Thailand’s government and Deep South rebels, insurgents have begun targeting tourist areas and the capital in the hope of gaining leverage at the negotiating table
By Zachary Abuza • Nov 23, 2016