Search results for "Cambodia"

Podcast

The Anakut podcast: Women in the Kingdom

Anakut: The podcast about Cambodia's future dissects the big issues impacting the Kingdom. This week, feminist figurehead Chak Sopheap and the next generation Ham Pidor discuss a topic directly impacting the lives of 50% of Cambodians – women's rights
By Andrew Haffner

Friends of Globe

Friends of Globe_ Friends of Southeast Asia Globe share our vision for a brighter tomorrow. Through our partnership we work to tell stories for a more informed, inclusive and sustainable future. Message us to learn how your organisation can become a Friend of Globe today! Aide…
By Dot Developers

Editorial Internship

Editorial Internship_ We are looking for a dynamic Editorial Intern to join our team and help us write in-depth feature articles and analysis on the most vital issues facing Southeast Asia. From pitching original story ideas to researching, planning and helping to execute well-crafted ideas into compelling, thought-provoking…
By Dot Developers

Editorial

Thammasat and trash in Hanoi

This week Thailand marks the 44th anniversary of the Thammasat University Massacre, one of the darkest moments in the kingdom's modern history. Professor Mark S. Cogan reflects on the events of that day, that saw scores of unarmed student protestors murdered, and asks how Thailand reached that nadir. We also turn to trash in Hanoi, as the villagers of Nom San complain of pollution and cancer as they live besides an ever-expanding rubbish dump
By Andrew Haffner

UNDP

POWERED BY Reshaping tomorrow’s opportunity for young workforce With the age of Industry 4.0 upon us, innovation is the name of the game. Workers must upskill and industries adapt in order to keep pace and meet the demands of the global economy. Nowhere is…
By Daniel Marchette

Waste management

Cintri workers end strike, but Phnom Penh’s waste future uncertain

Refuse collectors in Phnom Penh ended a five-day strike on October 7, with mounds of trash set to be cleared from the capital's streets, but the future of refuse collection in capital remains up in the air
By Andrew Haffner and Alastair McCready

Photography

Irving Penh: Portraits of Phnom Penh’s riverside sellers

The vendors plying their trade on Phnom Penh's streets play an invaluable but under-appreciated role supporting life in the capital. But using their makeshift riverside studio, two photographers set out to place these overlooked workers in the spotlight
By Alastair McCready

Editorial

Contact tracing and internet blackouts

Vietnam has been lauded for its robust Covid response, part of which has been the rolling out of contact-tracing app Bluezone. But with few inside the tightly controlled communist state able to scrutinise the methods of those in power, it's been left to the Globe's fearless Sarah Kim to unravel concerns about the app and its potential implications for user privacy. We also turn to Rakhine State in Myanmar, where an internet blackout is leaving women even more vulnerable to sexual violence, and with limited means to report it when it does occur
By Andrew Haffner

Community rights

Pooling resources: Fostering solidarity among Mekong communities

With rural communities along the Mekong living at the mercy of the geopolitical whims of nations controlling the river's flow and development, attempts are being made to band these disparate people together to regain control over their fate
By Jacob Goldberg

Editorial

An island in the Mekong

The Globe's Andrew Haffner hit the water this week, as he waded into an underreported yet potentially huge story taking place on the banks of the Mekong in the Cambodian capital. As we speak, dredgers are shifting tonnes of sand and relocating it to an area set to form Koh Norea, a new island mega-project touted by developers as the next Koh Pich. While billions of dollars are at stake for investors, ecological harmony in the river is the most significant thing on the line – despite this, a publicly available environmental impact assessment remains illusive
By Andrew Haffner

Cambodian development

Environmental fears as new Mekong island carved out in Phnom Penh

A major land reclamation in the Mekong has forged ahead in what developers say will be the second Diamond Island. But while land filling elsewhere in the city has been met with unease, this mega-project has taken shape unbothered by current or controversy
By Andrew Haffner