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Leila Goldstein is a reporter focused on business and economics stories across the region. She was previously a business reporter for NPR member station WYSO. Her reporting has been published by NPR, Marketplace and The World. Before becoming a journalist, Leila taught courses for two years at Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia as a Shansi Fellow.
International efforts this year to repatriate artefacts has worked in tandem with local work to piece together the illicit supply chains of lost relics. The Globe followed one research team as they worked through the sprawling Koh Ker temple complex
By
Chia Chi Hsu
- Sep 29, 2023
As Angkorian relics return home to fanfare, a Cambodian and French team is painstakingly restoring a monumental statue smashed by looters at Koh Ker. Their quiet mission underlines broader efforts to reclaim a historical legacy broken through past decades of strife
By
Chia Chi Hsu
- Sep 29, 2023
Activists Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti are now in court two years after comments on YouTube about a government official’s involvement in mining activity in conflicted West Papua
By
Leila Goldstein
- Jul 03, 2023
This week brought vastly different political news to the neighbours, which saw a major opposition win at the polls in Thailand and a further tightening of electoral space in Cambodia. In this Q&A, author and Professor Lee Morgenbesser compares the situations in both countries and puts them in broader context
By
Leila Goldstein
- May 19, 2023
Experts say new Omicron subvariants have contributed to the abrupt rise, which filled hospitals in the weeks after a wave of post-Ramadan holiday travel across the Muslim-majority countries
By
Leila Goldstein
- May 16, 2023
Singaporean technology company and superapp Grab is accelerating toward profitability. But as it directs focus to new business sectors and cuts back on spending, it risks leaving behind the gig workers who first built up the company
By
Leila Goldstein
- Mar 22, 2023
Government officials and guests gathered at Cambodia's National Museum for a special unpacking ceremony as a group of looted Cambodian antiquities were returned home from the inventories of international collectors
By
Leila Goldstein
- Mar 17, 2023
Increasing labour migration and hurdles in the welfare system have left more older people in Cambodia struggling to get by without family support
By
Leila Goldstein
- Mar 02, 2023
According to a report by palm oil farmers union SPKS, the country's palm oil conglomerations raked in over $1 billion in profits from biodiesel subsidies, while local smallholders continue to struggle under the terms of a new biodiesel policy
By
Leila Goldstein
- Feb 08, 2023
More than six months into the Kingdom's decriminalisation of weed in Thailand, unclear regulation and fluctuating market trends are clouding the landscape for local business owners
By
Leila Goldstein
- Feb 02, 2023
The region has some of the most dangerous roads in the world with higher than average death rates, but delivery apps aren’t doing enough to protect their riders
By
Leila Goldstein
- Oct 14, 2022
