Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 23, 2014 • 6 min read

Road accidents The darkness of night

By James MacDonald • Dec 23, 2014
Across Thailand, the weekend heralds binge drinking and hedonistic parties. For the emergency rescue teams of Chiang Mai, however, the end of the week presents a more sobering reality

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 22, 2014 • 3 min read

“Hush! Listen to the Earth”

By Nathan A. Thompson • Dec 22, 2014
The latest part of a Southeast Asia Globe series that shines a light on the region’s finest poetry

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 22, 2014 • 4 min read

Dough to be made

By Daniel Besant • Dec 22, 2014
With stores across Southeast Asia, including his latest that has just opened in Phnom Penh, craft baker Eric Kayser is bringing quality bread to a region defined by rice

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

Cambodia Hun Sen “misinformed” over Cambodia’s mass HIV infection, says Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

By David Hutt and Dene Mullen • Dec 19, 2014
Virologist jointly credited with discovering HIV calls for calm Françoise Barré-Sinoussi – credited along with her colleague Luc Montagnier as the discoverer of HIV – has said that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been “misinformed”, following his comments regarding an outbreak of the virus in Battambang province, in Cambodia’s northwest

Southeast Asia • Dec 19, 2014 • 3 min read
Fishing

Crimson tide

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
By Roni Bintang • Dec 19, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 15, 2014 • 7 min read
Luxury Bikes

Wheels of fortune

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
By David Hutt • Dec 15, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 12, 2014 • 8 min read

Through the eyes of a killer

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
By Dene Mullen • Dec 12, 2014

Southeast Asia • Dec 11, 2014 • 4 min read
History

Tell me no lies

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
By David Hutt • Dec 11, 2014

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