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Alexi Demetriadi is a former reporter at the Southeast Asia Globe and sub-editor at our sister publication, Focus – Ready for Tomorrow. His focus is on culture, history and sport. He has worked as a reporter in Sydney, Bangkok and his native UK – with bylines in the New Internationalist, The Morning Star, The Bangkok Post, among others. He is a committed Fulham FC and South Sydney Rabbitohs fan.
Covid-19 has forced all areas of Cambodian society to adapt, nowhere more so than in the education sphere. In Cambodia, schools, teachers and students have had to be more flexible than ever before as the pandemic rips up the textbook
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Dec 15, 2020
Exactly one year on from the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Wuhan, it goes without saying that 2020 has been a year unlike any other. In a series of photos, the Globe revisits some of the key moments from this year in Southeast Asia, as the virus turned lives and livelihoods upside down
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Dec 08, 2020
Cambodian journalist network and outlet CamboJA has been shortlisted for an RSF Press Freedom Award. Could the organisation represent a genuine source of hope for independent media in Cambodia’s increasingly hostile journalism environment?
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Nov 23, 2020
31 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, fragments of the Iron Curtain live on in a park in Jakarta. Despite more than three decades passing since they came crashing down, the artist behind the monument believes these concrete slabs still have much to teach us
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Nov 09, 2020
Absurdist novel The Outsider has been republished in Khmer for the first time since 1973, introducing a new generation of Cambodians to Albert Camus' work. Meet the Phnom Penh publishing house behind this initiative returning classic literature to the Kingdom
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Nov 03, 2020
New research has uncovered how global garment brands have been unilaterally cancelling orders, delaying payments and changing contracts to their betterment during the pandemic – leaving factories and workers to shoulder the burden
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Oct 23, 2020
The Siamese crocodile, once thought extinct, has seen a small but encouraging resurgence in Cambodia with around 300 now thought to live in the wild. After a discovery of 15 hatchlings last month, the Globe talked to those trying to save the species
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Oct 16, 2020
News site New Naratif has been subject to a police investigation in recent weeks for reportedly violating Singapore's election laws. In an interview with the Globe, co-founder and Managing Director PJ Thum spoke out against the harassment he and New Naratif are facing
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Alexi Demetriadi and Alastair McCready
- Oct 08, 2020
While Cambodia continues to make strides with its education system, a gender attainment gap between girls and boys persists. But with its female-led student councils and gender equity programme, one set of schools in Siem Reap is bridging the divide
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Sep 25, 2020
A documentary is in the works about a football team with a difference – the Kampong Chhnang Women’s Under-21s. The difference? The team were the first dedicated to girls of all sexual orientations, to win not just trophies but to change perceptions in the Kingdom
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Sep 02, 2020
Former armed revolutionary and current human rights activist Aung Myo Min establshed Equality Myanmar 20 years ago last month. But even after inroads, equality for the LGBTQ+ community in the staunchly conservative country remains a distant reality
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Aug 25, 2020
With Jon Swain’s cult memoir River of Time set to be adapted for the big screen, the author returns to his time in 1970s Indochina, where he witnessed death and destruction in Vietnam, the Fall of Phnom Penh and the rise of the Khmer Rouge
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Aug 19, 2020
Flowers Nanobrewery isn’t trying to break the Angkor monopoly on the Cambodian beer market, but the one-man, Japanese-run nanobrewery in Kampot is trying to preserve its distinct craft beer creations and identity
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Aug 07, 2020
The first piece of track on Kunming-Vientiane railway was laid in April as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative. But with the project steaming ahead, does Laos stand to actually see any benefits from the project, or is it merely in Beijing's interest?
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jul 31, 2020
As fresh evidence of alleged rights abuses committed against the Uighur in China's Xinjiang province emerges, much of the world has called out Beijing for its treatment of the ethnic minority group. But in Southeast Asia, the silence is once again deafening
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jul 23, 2020
As Covid-19 continues to rage through Indonesia, how will the faltering economy and the reallocation of funds towards virus relief impact the country's grand $33 billion plan to relocate its capital to East Kalimantan?
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jul 17, 2020
In July 2018, the world's attention was gripped by the plight of 12 plucky young boys and their football coach trapped in a cave in Thailand. Two years on, the rescue team that saved the 'Wild Boars' recount the events of that day
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jul 10, 2020
Last week Cambodia introduced new laws to tackle money laundering following an EU ruling placing the country at “high-risk” for illicit cash flows. But experts say it will take extensive efforts and real political will to end the entrenched practice in the Kingdom
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jul 06, 2020
As Globe reporter Alexi Demetriadi nears the end of his Phnom Penh quarantine experience, he touches base with Alexi Demetriadi in a no-holds-barred interview to hear about how its gone, and what travellers coming to Cambodia should know
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jul 02, 2020
Globe reporter Alexi is stuck in quarantine for two-weeks in the outskirts of Phnom Penh after his flight returned a positive case of Covid-19. In his first diary entry from isolation, he talks swabs, Russian Boulevard and Avicii
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jun 25, 2020
Globe staff members Andrew and Alexi made the trip back to Phnom Penh this week, in an aviation industry far different than before. Socially distanced boarding, face masks and dreaded swab tests, they recount the process of returning to Cambodia
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Alexi Demetriadi and Andrew Haffner
- Jun 24, 2020
2011 biopic The Lady depicts an Aung San Suu Kyi fighting for democracy, painting a very different picture to the one we know today. The Globe spoke with the film’s screenwriter, Rebecca Frayn, to better understand the former democracy icon's tragic character arc
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jun 19, 2020
Last year, the Cambodian government set out to put a permanent end to child labour in the country’s brick kilns by 2020. But as the problem persists, experts believe the remedy will have to tackle the systemic issues causing children to head to the furnaces
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jun 12, 2020
Consulting firm Verisk Maplecroft has ranked Cambodia 28th in the world and the highest risk in Southeast Asia for the use of child labour in its 2020 index. The Southeast Asia region as a whole faired poorly, with seven countries deemed at 'extreme' or 'high' risk
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Alexi Demetriadi and Alastair McCready
- Jun 12, 2020
The late, great chef-come-writer Anthony Bourdain travelled and worked extensively throughout Southeast Asia before his sudden passing in 2018. Two years on, the Globe reflects on his enduring legacy in the region
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jun 08, 2020
The deadline to adhere to UN sanctions on North Korean businesses passed in late-2019, with notable efforts made to close ventures across Southeast Asia. But with attention elsewhere and the pressure off, sanctions adherence may fall on the backburner
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Jun 02, 2020
While the global pandemic has been devastating for economies and lives across the world, it has been undeniably good for the environment. As cities across Southeast Asia have shut down, air quality has steadily and uniformly improved – that is in all but one city
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Lee Ying Shan and Alexi Demetriadi
- May 27, 2020
Lockdowns brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic have had clear positive effects on pollutions levels across Southeast Asia’s major cities. But one city, notorious for its pollution, bucks that trend. Why has Jakarta’s air quality worsened during the lockdown months?
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Alexi Demetriadi
- May 27, 2020
In the Philippines, the future of ABS-CBN remains uncertain as a decision on whether to allow it to return to air meanders through the nation's political system. But in the newsroom, one of the network's few branches still operating, news chief Ging Reyes says there is a renewed drive and energy
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Alexi Demetriadi
- May 20, 2020
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?
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Alexi Demetriadi
- May 15, 2020
In the US state of Minnesota, the newly established Karen Football Association is aiming to provide a platform to promote the struggles of the ethnic group back in Myanmar, as well as foster a sense of community and identity for future generations in their new home
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Alexi Demetriadi
- May 12, 2020
With the price of hand sanitiser skyrocketing since the pandemic, Phnom Penh’s Samai Distillery has thought outside the box to help the local community by producing affordable bottles of cleansing alcohol using leftovers from rum production
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Apr 29, 2020
A newly released report reveals a year-long investigation into the detainment of student activists in Myanmar and calls for a sea-change in the country’s oppressive peaceful protest law
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Apr 24, 2020
In Cambodia, a recently passed bill has handed the government the ability to enact sweeping emergency powers during times of crisis. Is this simply a necessary move to combat the pandemic, or are fundamental human rights under threat?
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Apr 18, 2020
Khmer New Year is normally a time for celebration and community, but for Cambodians across the globe this year has been scuppered by the global pandemic. To get around this, some groups are moving celebrations online
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Alexi Demetriadi
- Apr 16, 2020
