Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 18, 2014 • 4 min read

Human rights The disappeared

By Kearrin Sims • Jun 18, 2014
The whereabouts of renowned Lao development worker Sombath Somphone remain unknown and the case has become a cause célèbre. Southeast Asia Globe spoke to his wife, Shui Meng, about the man behind the media attention

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 17, 2014 • 10 min read

Anchorwoman: Angie Lau

By Christian Vits • Jun 17, 2014
From its Asian hubs in Hong Kong and Singapore, Bloomberg Television Asia focuses on the world’s most vibrant economic region. Angie Lau’s show, First Up, reaches 340 million homes globally. Here, she takes Southeast Asia Globe behind the scenes and into the cut and thrust of the news that is shaping the region

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 16, 2014 • 6 min read

Mall culture The family

By Massimo Morello • Jun 16, 2014
When it comes to wealthy Thai families, none can compete with the Chirathivats. Not many can compare when it comes to business nous either. Busaba Chirathivat, Thailand’s queen of retail, sits down with Southeast Asia Globe to discuss family ties, shopping malls and equal opportunities

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 13, 2014 • 6 min read

Uphill battle

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jun 13, 2014
Southeast Asia needs to explore new funding channels if its infrastructure is to keep pace with its economic needs

Southeast Asia • Jun 13, 2014 • 10 min read
colour-soaked art

Ashley Bickerton: In two minds

Once one of the East Village’s precocious golden kids of the 1980s, Ashley Bickerton swapped suicidal geniuses for tropical obscurity. And he wouldn’t change a thing… 
By Jemma Galvin • Jun 13, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 11, 2014 • 7 min read

The consummate diplomat

As national elections loom, Indonesia’s foreign minister talks regional diplomacy and the need for sensitivity in negotiation
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jun 11, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 11, 2014 • 4 min read

“A lot of precision planning goes into a fight scene”

Born in Thailand and schooled in the UK, filmmaker Tom Waller discusses the realities of filming in the Kingdom and his latest movie The Last Executioner
By Daniel Besant • Jun 11, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 09, 2014 • 6 min read

"The needs are enormous"

Wiebke Schloemer, an infrastructure expert at the International Finance Corporation, discusses the challenges arising from the region’s pressing need for improved connectivity
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jun 09, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 09, 2014 • 9 min read

Trade behemoth

To avoid losing out in trade pacts, Asean must move up the value chain and increase its competitiveness
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jun 09, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 09, 2014 • 6 min read

The charm and the mettle

Daughter to a recently sentenced father; leader to an ethnic Malay community; mother to a son and daughter. Nurul Izzah Anwar has the lineage to rival some of the world's most prominent political families and for many embodies the battle for genuine democracy in Malaysia
By Arnaud Dubus • Jun 09, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 08, 2014 • 2 min read

Trouble at the border

More than 100,000 Cambodian migrant workers have fled Thailand, apparently due to fears of a crackdown on illegal foreign labourers by the ruling military junta. The border town of Poipet was inundated with returning workers, with an estimated 45,000 crossing back into their home country on one day alone.
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jun 08, 2014

Southeast Asia • Jun 06, 2014 • 1 min read

Connectivity in figures

A surge in connectivity is filtering through the region as its citizens' appetite for communication steadily increases
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Jun 06, 2014