Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 21, 2020 • 8 min read

Drug trafficking As governments turn to the virus, Southeast Asia’s narcotics trade booms

By Andrew Haffner • May 21, 2020
Southeast Asia's booming narcotics industry has only been given a helping hand in recent months as governments turn their attention to combating Covid-19. With prices dropping and potency rising, the drug trade could be set to hit the region harder than ever

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 21, 2020 • 9 min read

Opinion ‘Cambodia’s agricultural sector is in dire need of revitalisation’

By Nith Kosal • May 21, 2020
With the stalwarts of the Cambodian economy, tourism and garments, set to be decimated by the economic downturn, Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on agriculture to step in and pick up the slack. A badly neglected sector struggling to survive with outdated methods, technology and extreme weather events, how can this be done?

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 21, 2020 • 2 min read

Covid-19 Robot dog on virus park patrol in Singapore

By Agence France-Presse • May 21, 2020
A yellow robot dog called Spot, which found fame online for dancing to Mark Ronson's hit song Uptown Funk, has been deployed to patrol a Singapore park and ensure people observe social distancing to stem the spread of Covid-19

Southeast Asia • STORY OF THE DAY • May 16, 2020 • 3 min read
In Partnership with 1

Cambodian art renaissance

By Daniel Marchette • May 16, 2020
“Only someone who has suffered the deepest of misfortunes is capable of experiencing the heights of felicity”

Southeast Asia • May 15, 2020 • 7 min read
Regional cooperation

ASEAN’s Covid-19 response: United in name, divided in practice

In keeping with ASEAN's recent history of divided responses to regionally important issues, the bloc's collective efforts to combat Covid-19 have proved far from unified. But an institution in which individual members are placed above the collective, should observers have anticipated any different?
By Alexi Demetriadi • May 15, 2020

Southeast Asia • May 12, 2020 • 1 min read

FU LU ZU REOPENING

Phnom Penh's premier fine dining Chinese restaurant located at the beautiful Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra hotel has reopened
By Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra • May 12, 2020

Southeast Asia • May 11, 2020 • 3 min read

The people’s game

This week we take a rare delve into the world of sport as we profile the 'national football team' of the Karen ethnic group in Myanmar. A member of CONIFA, an alternative football body whose members consist of unrecognised states and separatists movements, it showcases the ability of football, and sport generally, to provide a platform for the voiceless. We also look at how Southeast Asia's indigenous forest communities could play a role in preventing the next pandemic, as well as how Facebook is influencing the spread of 'fake news' in Myanmar during lockdown.
By Chia Chi Hsu • May 11, 2020

Southeast Asia • May 04, 2020 • 9 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Lockdown with the monks at Myanmar’s Pa-Auk monastery

As much of the world struggles with enforced isolation to stem the spread of Covid-19, there is one group who are better prepared than most to weather this storm. Buddhist monk Bhante Subhūti gives an insight into how his monastery near Mandalay is coping with this not-so-slow pace of life
By Bhante Bhikkhu Subhūti • May 04, 2020

Southeast Asia • Apr 03, 2020 • 2 min read
Editorial

Get in touch

We want to hear from you! As part of our Tales of the Pandemic series, we are publishing a selection of personal essays from across Southeast Asia, looking at how life has been impacted by Covid-19. If you’d like to submit your own reach out to a.mccready@globemediaasia.com
By Alastair McCready • Apr 03, 2020

Southeast Asia • Mar 27, 2020 • 2 min read
Editorial

Keep on moving

This week, under the ever-looming shadow of COVID-19, we marked the 5th anniversary of the death of Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew. We also delved into the world of type-faces in Southeast Asia – with these seemingly innocuous characters having a monumental impact on the way people live and communicate across the region
By Alastair McCready • Mar 27, 2020

Southeast Asia • Mar 12, 2020 • 11 min read
Tradition

Crumbling walls

With their past hardly accounted for in history, the future of the once-hidden traditional Binukot women remains challenged in the face of resistance and progressivism in the Philippines
By Words by Marielle Lucenio, photos by Leo Solinap • Mar 12, 2020

Southeast Asia • Mar 11, 2020 • 3 min read
Mozart at Angkor

Mozart at Angkor: A Cambodian Magic Flute

A Cambodian Magic Flute integrates Western and Cambodian culture in the historic temples of Angkor Archaeological Park
By Mozart at Angkor • Mar 11, 2020