Search results for "Food"

Water

When the well runs dry

With clean water increasingly hard to come by, the fight for fresh water threatens to plunge Southeast Asia into chaos
By Sumona Raha

The business of fame

 Paula Taylor, Thailand’s most successful model and Geoff Heydt, a talent representative, explain how to make a face very famous
By Cameron Cooper

Cambodia's lensmen

Local photojournalists have gradually replaced foreign professionalsand are now enjoying greater exposure on the international market
By Southeast Asia Globe editorial

Time for redemption

 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
By Luke Young

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

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

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

In search of fertile ground

 Cambodia could transform its physical and economic health at a stroke by improving its vegetable production
By Charlie Lancaster

Hawkers welcome

Originally the only practical tool for nomadic bedouins hunting in the desert, the art of falconry remains a popular pastime in the Gulf States.
By Tareq al-Sheikh

Transportation

Vietnam steps down a gear

Vietnam’s nationwide outbreak of motomania is coming to a sudden halt as households start to combat rising food and fuel prices by choosing alternative forms of transport
By Matt Steinglass

Interview

Still looking for Utopia

After a tumultuous political career, Cambodia’s former prime minister Pen Sovann has no plans to leave behind the scene he has loved for more than five decades
By Marc Eberle

Interview

Morm Thida motodup

Morm Thida was born in 1991 in Phnom Penh. She lives with her four brothers, three sisters and her widowed mother. She is one of Phnom Penh’s few female moto-taxi drivers, or motodups as they are referred to locally. She usually works during the evening on the lakeside (Street 93)
By Yos Katank