Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 19, 2013 • 4 min read

Unusual medical treatments

By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 19, 2013
From the days of yore to the modern era, there has always been some quack ready to offer a preposterous cure for any type of ailment

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 18, 2013 • 4 min read

Wheels for riels

By Philip Heijmans • Feb 18, 2013
Following his success in Thailand, Mitsuji Konoshita is getting motorcycle finance moving in Cambodia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 15, 2013 • 5 min read

Rebel with a cause

By Sacha Passi • Feb 15, 2013
Breaking through Indonesia’s administrative glass ceiling has proven difficult for ex-trade minister Mari Pangestu, but a chance to lead the World Trade Organisation may push her to new heights

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 14, 2013 • 3 min read

Dungeons and dragons

By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 14, 2013
The mythology behind some of Southeast Asia’s most iconic sites

Southeast Asia • Feb 13, 2013 • 2 min read

Porsche to roll into Cambodia

Luxury car manufacturers are seizing an opportunity to tap into increasing demand for new automobiles in Cambodia, after new car sales rose sharply in 2012.
By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 13, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 13, 2013 • 7 min read

Bangkok gridlock

The capital is already bumper-to-bumper, and there is no respite in sight
By Liam Aran Barnes • Feb 13, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 12, 2013 • 2 min read

The impressionist

The considered brushstrokes of Thomas-Pierre give new life to the Iconic symbol that is Angkor
By Sacha Passi • Feb 12, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 11, 2013 • 6 min read

A pocket of resilience

From the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the edge of the tourist trail in northern Laos
By Matthew Crompton • Feb 11, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 08, 2013 • 8 min read

Out of sight: The Karen WWII soldiers forgotten by the British

Long forgotten by Britain, the nation they fought with side-by-side in World War Two, a group of Karen veterans is hoping to forge a more comfortable life in their twilight years
By Mark Fenn • Feb 08, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 07, 2013 • 5 min read

Exit stage left

Former Khmer Rouge Tribunal lawyer Andrew Ianuzzi talks Nuon Chea, Dr Dre and his decision to leave Cambodia’s “bad Gilbert and Sullivan”
By Daniel Otis • Feb 07, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 05, 2013 • 8 min read

Long live the king?

Following the death of royal patriarch King Father Norodom Sihanouk, what does the future hold for the royal family? Trude Jacobsen, assistant director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University gives her thoughts
By arjuna • Feb 05, 2013

Southeast Asia • Feb 05, 2013 • 3 min read

Like father, unlike son

While Cambodia waits for King Sihamoni to emerge from the shadow of his father, the Kingdom’s monarchy is withering
By Dr Markus Karbaum • Feb 05, 2013