Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 10, 2009 • 6 min read

Interview Jackie Chan

By Southeast Asia Globe • Oct 10, 2009
 The second speaker on the Bridges programme, Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and producer Jackie Chan, has worked tirelessly for humanitarian causes for years and is a Unicef and UNAids goodwill ambassador

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 10, 2009 • 4 min read

Time for redemption

By Luke Young • Oct 10, 2009
 The Cambodian government is at last opening up its prison system as it struggles to provide adequate facilities for a growing population. Cambodia’s prison system is in crisis due to appalling levels of overcrowding, violence and disease. There are currently 11,000 guests of the state, which is not a high number when set against the kingdom’s total population of about 14m. But housing these offenders is proving to be beyond the current system’s remit

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 10, 2009 • 10 min read

Has faith gone to the dogs?

By Joerg Rohleder • Oct 10, 2009
Celebrated atheist Richard Dawkins reveals his respect for Darwin, his reasons fordisliking religion in any shape or form and why one percent of him still can’t let go

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 2 min read

Monthly job market: Undergraduate courses

 A relatively unstructured qualification and accreditation system for institutions of higher education in Cambodia has created a sizeable number of businesses with dubious “university” status that in reality are “diploma mills”
By Curran Hendry • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 9 min read

High-octane gamblers

 Sixteen years ago French outfit Totalentered the nascent Cambodian oil andgas market; now its initial investment is looking more than likely to be a winner
By Charlie Lancaster • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 5 min read

Ensuring you enjoy the best of health

 Falling ill or suffering serious injury can have fatal results for your finances if you don’t have proper medical insurance
By Johan Smits • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 6 min read

Crossing the divide

An extraordinary meetings of minds will take place in Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines next month as the Bridges programme makes its third visit to the region
By Paul Brisby • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 4 min read

Building given green light

 With a new planning index, Malaysia is leading the way in developing regulations that will encourage the region’s construction industry to build with the future in mind. It seems that if you want to be acceptable to the rest of the world, paint yourself green. That appears to be the thinking behind the Malaysian government’s introduction of a Green Building Index (GBI), which sets out key construction standards of energy efficiency and sustainability. However, the fly in the environmental ointment is a lack of locally made materials to construct the buildings
By Anna Westenberger • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 4 min read

Brothers in arms

 Two Mexican families played an unsung role in enabling Fidel Castro to topple the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and bring communism to Cuba
By Juan Gaudenzi • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 4 min read
Lightning Strikes

A natural born killer

When the heavens light up, seek shelter or risk becoming a victim of Cambodia’s serial murderer
By Charlie Lancaster • Oct 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Oct 10, 2009 • 2 min read

Braille reading abilities growing

Nearly 200 years after the birth of Louis Braille, the alphabet of raised dots he created, commonly known as Braille, is still in regular use by 150m blind people around the world. Now the system is also widely used in Cambodia and the government has announced it will soon become available in every school nationwide
By Yos Katank • Oct 10, 2009