Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 19, 2010 • 5 min read

Top of the pops

By Charlie Lancaster • May 19, 2010
These five singers have captured the hearts and ears of the region 1. Thongchai McIntyre The eldest of this month’s Top 5,  51-year-old Thongchai ‘Bird’ McIntyre is one of Thailand’s most successful singers of all time. Having sold over 20m albums since his debut in 1986,…

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 17, 2010 • 13 min read

An interview with Tim Sakhorn

By Charlie Lancaster • May 17, 2010
Born in 1968, Tim Sakhorn is perhaps the most famous Khmer Krom activist alive today. He was granted political asylum in Sweden in July 2009. How does it feel to be reordained? Do you wish you were re-ordained in Cambodia? I am very happy to…

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 05, 2010 • 12 min read

The mighty bean

By Stephen Brooks & Dane Wetschler • May 05, 2010
Southeast Asia has succumbed to the world’s most popular stimulant, and now it’s getting ready to take its own coffee buzz to the world. Take a closer look at that cup of dark liquid you hold in your hand every morning. It’s one of 730 billion cups that will be…

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 05, 2010 • 7 min read

Please mind the gap

By Tate Zandstra • May 05, 2010
Business degrees are a big industry in the Kingdom, but not every degree means business. “Years ago, the MBA was a good idea…” Zak Buttell, a Chulalongkorn graduate and former Wall Street financial consultant, tells me over Thai iced coffee at a highly affluent street front…

Southeast Asia • Apr 09, 2010 • 11 min read

Meeting the material world

During recent years, the Buddhist faith appears to have witnessed a few casualties along an increasingly bumpy path to enlightenment. Headlines documenting monk-related incidents have peppered regional media, and their prevalence seems to be rising. From “Buddhist monk arrested for rape of British tourist” to “Monks arrested for throwing rowdy…
By Charlie Lancaster • Apr 09, 2010

Southeast Asia • Mar 07, 2010 • 3 min read

Peace gets a fighting chance

A Bangkok resident since 2002, the founding chairman of the International Peace Foundation is committed to spreading his peaceful message around the wider world. Uwe Morawetz is a man on a mission – he wants to make the world a better, more fulfilling place. He freely admits he’s a…
By Paul Brisby • Mar 07, 2010

Southeast Asia • Jan 27, 2010 • 7 min read
Water

When the well runs dry

With clean water increasingly hard to come by, the fight for fresh water threatens to plunge Southeast Asia into chaos
By Sumona Raha • Jan 27, 2010

Southeast Asia • Jan 06, 2010 • 7 min read

For national health and wealth

Thailand has become a honeypot for alternative cures, therapies and promises of longevity – and for those cashing in on the trend. For thousands of years people have travelled the world looking for the elixir of lasting life and health. The Ancient Greeks journeyed to the island of Epidaurus, sanctuary…
By Stephen Brooks • Jan 06, 2010

Southeast Asia • Dec 09, 2009 • 5 min read

Enjoying pride of place

Cellcard’s Kay Lot reveals his respect for Cambodia’s disabled stars, and what the presence of the World Cup means for his country, his company and himself
By Jet Odrerir • Dec 09, 2009

Southeast Asia • Dec 03, 2009 • 3 min read

A blessing for all

Cambodian psychotherapist Sathya Pholy works as a consultant for microfinance providers VisionFund, as a doctor for the Phnom Penh Counselling Centre and as the host of Love Talks with Dr Sathya Pholy, a weekly radio show on Love FM 97.5
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Dec 03, 2009

Southeast Asia • Nov 10, 2009 • 4 min read

Lao girls preparing for success

 As host to the 2009 SEA Games, Laos will expect to strike gold with its young female petanque team and see off the Thais – the region’s unlikely champions
By Peter Janssen • Nov 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Nov 10, 2009 • 12 min read

The business of fame

 Paula Taylor, Thailand’s most successful model and Geoff Heydt, a talent representative, explain how to make a face very famous
By Cameron Cooper • Nov 10, 2009