Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 02, 2016 • 4 min read

Let there be music: Northbridge International School

By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Feb 02, 2016
Northbridge International School Cambodia has launched an innovative music curriculum in collaboration with New York’s world-renowned Juilliard School

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 02, 2016 • 5 min read

Climate Change Climate change: region will suffer without urgent action

By John Weiss • Feb 02, 2016
OPINION: With its low-lying coastlines and significant levels of poverty, the region looks likely to be hit hard by climate change. Governments must take action now, before it’s too late

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 02, 2016 • 5 min read

View from the top: Victor Cui, CEO of ONE Championship

By Ellie Dyer • Feb 02, 2016
Victor Cui, chief executive officer of ONE Championship, the mixed martial arts promotion and sports media property, looks at his career, his management style and the importance of adaptation in business

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 01, 2016 • 2 min read

Portrait of a lady: Moeun Thary

By Daniel Besant • Feb 01, 2016
Moeun Thary, 47, works as a seamstress in Phnom Penh and lives in a dilapidated 1960s block called Bodeng, also known as the White Building, one of the last remaining housing projects for low-income families in the centre of Cambodia’s capital. In December, she became the subject of a mural on a side wall of Bodeng by renowned street artist El Mac. A few days after its completion, the mural was whitewashed over by city authorities

Southeast Asia • Jan 28, 2016 • 10 min read
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Thinking of a change: 17 Triggers

What if, inside all of us, there is an emotional ‘elephant’ and rational ‘elephant rider’ competing to determine our actions? Mike Rios of 17 Triggers, a Cambodia-based advertising agency that works with the development sector, explains his hard-learned lessons on how to get people to change their behaviours
By David Hutt • Jan 28, 2016

Southeast Asia • Jan 28, 2016 • 4 min read

Malaysian PM's battles have only just begun

Opinion: While Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak might have been cleared of wrongdoing in a financial scandal, more accusations are likely to come, says academic Greg Lopez
By Greg Lopez • Jan 28, 2016

Southeast Asia • Jan 27, 2016 • 3 min read
Dissident

Talking democracy with a Laotian dissident

A political reshuffle has taken place in communist Laos. Here, a dissident speaks out about the country’s regime and his hopes for democracy
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jan 27, 2016

Southeast Asia • Jan 25, 2016 • 3 min read

Laos congress elects new leader

Party veteran and septuagenarian Bounnhang Vorachith becomes leader of the country
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Jan 25, 2016

Southeast Asia • Jan 25, 2016 • 7 min read

"Happy staff means happy guests": Shinta Mani

With a hotel recognised as among the world’s best by TripAdvisor, the managers of Cambodia’s Shinta Mani believe the key to success lies in employee contentment
By Focus Asean editorial • Jan 25, 2016

Southeast Asia • Jan 25, 2016 • 6 min read
Filipino arts

Jessa Balote: from Manila slum to fame as a ballet dancer

Plucked from an overcrowded slum in the Philippines, Jessa Balote is now a Ballet Manila company member. The teenager reveals how she danced her way out of poverty
By Angel L. Martínez Cantera • Jan 25, 2016