Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 04, 2015 • 5 min read

Chapter and verse: an interview with Paul Kelly

By Daniel Besant • Nov 04, 2015
A bona fide star musician in his native Australia, with a career spanning more than four decades, Paul Kelly has recently found success in the world of literature. He spoke to Southeast Asia Globe ahead of an appearance at this month’s Kampot Writers and Readers Festival in Cambodia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 03, 2015 • 3 min read

Photo contest to address violence against women

By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Nov 03, 2015
Cambodia's Women’s Resource Centre is calling on the Kingdom's photographers to help them address the complex issue of eliminating violence against women by taking part in its nationwide photography campaign

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 03, 2015 • 5 min read

One Championship Beyond the cage

By Dene Mullen • Nov 03, 2015
One Championship is famed for its high-octane mixed martial arts events that combine elbow-striking action with red-carpet glamour. Southeast Asia Globe was granted unprecedented access to their most recent fight night to witness what goes on behind the scenes at one of Asia’s most dazzling sporting spectacles

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 02, 2015 • 8 min read

Aung San Suu kyi It’s my party: Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD

By Sebastian Strangio • Nov 02, 2015
The National League for Democracy is staking everything on the popularity of its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in Myanmar’s national election. But is the party ready for whatever comes next?

Southeast Asia • Oct 29, 2015 • 5 min read

Screaming trees: Myanmar guitars

With the woods required to craft guitars in dangerously high demand, an experienced yet enterprising Yangon luthier is championing sonic sustainability by utilising obscure local timbers
By Manny Maung • Oct 29, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 28, 2015 • 3 min read

Cambodia’s got talent: top chefs

We asked some of the country’s finest Cambodian chefs to prepare their favourite dishes and share their stories. The results were never anything less than scorching
By Dene Mullen • Oct 28, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 28, 2015 • 3 min read
Continued stigma

A place to call home: Naung Kan leprosy colony

Located just outside of Kengtung, a former trade crossroads between China and Siam, Naung Kan leprosy colony in Myanmar provides a stable and understanding environment to sufferers of one of the world’s most stigmatised diseases
By Brennan O'Connor • Oct 28, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 25, 2015 • 8 min read
Agriculture

The end of Cambodia’s rice industry?

A combination of erratic weather, poor infrastructure and an inefficient government has experts predicting that Cambodia’s rice industry could collapse within a decade   
By Denise Hruby • Oct 25, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 21, 2015 • 9 min read

The right stuff: South East Asia Property Awards

The South East Asia Property Awards 2015 gave a window on what's best in the region's real estate sector
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Oct 21, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 21, 2015 • 9 min read
Workers

Divided they fall: Cambodia's unions

Last year, trade unionism in Cambodia appeared to have reached its high-water mark. But with minimum wage negotiations taking place this month, there are already concerns it has become a divided and weakened movement
By David Hutt • Oct 21, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 19, 2015 • 7 min read
Malaysia

A country in crisis?

Scandals, disasters and financial mismanagement have hit Malaysia hard in recent years. Southeast Asia Globe finds that the nation’s young people are beginning to talk of a country in crisis
By Daniel Besant • Oct 19, 2015

Southeast Asia • Oct 16, 2015 • 9 min read
History

History is how you read it: the Marcos Museum

The ‘sacred’ story of the Philippines’ former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, as told through a bizarre museum in his home province, where he is still adored
By Justin Calderon • Oct 16, 2015