Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 19, 2014 • 3 min read

Fishing Crimson tide

By Roni Bintang • Dec 19, 2014
After being destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, Banda Aceh’s Lampulo fish market was rebuilt and remains a hotbed of shark fin trading. Local fishermen trawl the seas, hauling in hundreds of thousands of the creatures each year to meet the demand for shark fin soup that flows out of China and Vietnam

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 15, 2014 • 7 min read

Luxury Bikes Wheels of fortune

By David Hutt • Dec 15, 2014
The motorcycle market in Cambodia has long been characterised by cheap and efficient bikes. But in recent years the Kingdom’s streets have become peppered with more powerful, more expensive and more eye-catching machines

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 12, 2014 • 8 min read

Through the eyes of a killer

By Dene Mullen • Dec 12, 2014
The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer’s second film about Indonesia’s communist purges of the 1960s. The first film, the Oscar-nominated The Act of Killing, was centred on the murderers; this time the focus is shifted to the victims, who have been afraid to raise the matter for half a century. Oppenheimer spoke exclusively to Southeast Asia Globe about finding the right leading man, the caustic effects of impunity and finding compassion in the darkest recesses of humanity

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 11, 2014 • 4 min read

History Tell me no lies

By David Hutt • Dec 11, 2014
John Pilger was one of the first Western journalists to bring the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime to the world’s attention. Now, 35 years after the release of his documentary, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia, Pilger speaks to Southeast Asia Globe about his memories of those days

Southeast Asia • Dec 09, 2014 • 6 min read

Fighting fire with fire

One of the region’s longest-running and most intractable conflicts continues to smoulder in Thailand’s deep south. The new military government has promised peace, but one of its first moves was handing out military-grade weapons to locals
By Daniel Besant • Dec 09, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 08, 2014 • 7 min read

The big year

Will a new region-wide convention and regional integration, both slated for next year, succeed where past efforts have failed and quash human trafficking?
By David Hutt • Dec 08, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 05, 2014 • 7 min read

The recovery model

Southeast Asia’s biggest natural disaster in modern history provided a nation and a region with a lesson they never expected to learn. Ten years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, how much has changed?
By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata • Dec 05, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 04, 2014 • 3 min read

The quiet achiever: Retno Marsudi

There is a new gang running things in Indonesia. One of its more notable members is Retno Marsudi – the country’s first female foreign minister
By Daniel Besant • Dec 04, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 03, 2014 • 3 min read

Life graft

The latest Corruption Perceptions Index has just been released by Transparency International and its findings in Southeast Asia have a wearily familiar ring
By Lauren Vardy • Dec 03, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 03, 2014 • 7 min read
Cambodia

The one and only: Hun Sen

This month marks 30 years since Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen took control of the country. His reign as the world’s longest serving leader has been marked by success and progress, fear and corruption. And it’s not over yet…
By Markus Karbaum • Dec 03, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 02, 2014 • 3 min read

Getting a rise

Cambodia's garment workers recently scored a pay rise. Reactions to this decision are mixed
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial • Dec 02, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 02, 2014 • 7 min read
Transgender sex workers

The skin I live in

A lack of understanding of transgender issues means that hundreds of women are presented with scant employment opportunities and often turn to sex work to make ends meet
By Kirsten Han • Dec 02, 2014