Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 30, 2009 • 1 min read

Recliners get new life

By Southeast Asia Globe • Sep 30, 2009
For years recliners have been a symbol of retirement. The preserve of senior citizens, recliners were drab reminders of less colourful times

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 10, 2009 • 7 min read

Heading for the hills

By Dennis Duncan • Sep 10, 2009
Thailand’s luxury eco and cultural tourism market is finding plenty of new visitors attracted to the physical and moral high ground

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 10, 2009 • 5 min read

A balanced contender

By Cameron Cooper • Sep 10, 2009
 The Lexus IS250 is a promising newcomer with bags of style and enough punch to give those swaggering German cruisers a run for their money

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 10, 2009 • 3 min read

India's green secret

By Hanns-Jochen Kaffsack • Sep 10, 2009
 In southwestern India, the verdant coastline of Kerala offers an intoxicating cocktail of adventure, culture and relaxation

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 10 min read

The comeback Kingdom

Despite a triple whammy of political turmoil, recession and reduced tourism, Thailand’s user-friendly business environment remains attractive to investors. The economic tsunami of 1997 had its epicentre in Thailand, but the shockwaves soon spread across Asia, bringing down banks, businesses and personal fortunes. The crisis is…
By Jim Algie • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 3 min read

Asean giving good service

 Southeast Asian nations continue to offer competitive advantages as outsourcing choices, occupying four of the top seven places on AT Kearney’s Global Services Index.
By Southeast Asia Globe • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 7 min read
Ecosystem

Lost in the urban jungle

The inevitable conflict between humans and the natural environment could spell the end for Hong Kong’s endemic pythons and their fragile ecosystem
By Hazel Parry • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 5 min read

Still in the cheap seats

 September’s Lakhaon festival hopes to reach a wider Khmer audienceand gain support for the rehabilitation of traditional Cambodian theatre
By Charlie Lancaster • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 5 min read

The lady and the paper tigers

The expedient conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi is an opportunity for Asean to show that its recently drafted charter on human rights is worth more than the paper it is printed on
By Alistair DB Cook and Caballero-Anthony • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 6 min read

In search of fertile ground

 Cambodia could transform its physical and economic health at a stroke by improving its vegetable production
By Charlie Lancaster • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 1 min read

New flesh eating plant found

A new species of Nepenthes, a carnivorous pitcher plant that boosts its nutrient intake by catching and digesting insects, has been discovered in the Cardamom Mountains. The discovery was made by Fauna and Flora International and verified by François Mey, a botanist who specialises in pitcher…
By Southeast Asia Globe • Sep 10, 2009

Southeast Asia • Sep 10, 2009 • 11 min read

Eye on the ball

Tony Fernandes is one of the region’s most unconventional executives – but also one of its most successful. How does this unlikeliest of entrepreneurs keep proving the sceptics wrong? AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes (L) and AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani pose during the launch of Redbox, a low-cost air courier service in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 09 July 2009. Photo: EPA/Ahmad Yusni
By Ron Gluckman • Sep 10, 2009