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Editorial

Road to disaster

Look around you. Environmental collapse is fast-approaching and environmental degradation is already hitting Southeast Asia.
By Julija Veljkovic

Opioid epidemic

Southeast Asia’s looming fentanyl crisis

Last week, Southeast Asia Globe uncovered the presence of fentanyl in at least one batch of street drugs in Bangkok – potentially the first discovery of its kind in Thailand. With the potent opioid destroying communities across North America, advocates and people who use drugs worry of the potentially devastating effect of fentanyl infiltrating Southeast Asia
By Samantha McCabe

Communities on the river

Currents of time

In 1991, National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita traversed the length of the Mekong, from source to sea, in a groundbreaking trip documenting the communities for which the river was so central to life. The Globe sat down with Yamashita to reflect on his journey almost three decades on, as well as hear his thoughts on the dams and environmental degradation blighting the river today
By Andrew Haffner

Urban development

The grass is never greener

As Phnom Penh’s construction sector booms, communities suffer as public recreational areas are sacrificed for never-ending new developments. In an economic environment where money trumps all, who will preserve vital green spaces for the capital's residents?
By Julija Veljkovic

Editorial

Governments on trial

This week we looked at how Myanmar is the only country in the world in which its government is still planting landmines, as well as Cambodia’s shaky human rights pledge and how the Kingdom will handle the changing world order in the decades to come. Our special report this week also drew attention to the uniquely modern phenomenon of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh watching – on mobile phones in refugee camps 7,500km away – Myanmar’s embattled leader Aung San Suu Kyi defend her country on charges of genocide at The Hague.
By Chia Chi Hsu

Cambodian civil society

A not-so-fond farewell

This year will be the last in which Human Rights Day will be officially marked in Cambodia after the government's decision to remove it from its list of public holidays. Chak Sopheap, Executive Director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, reflects on this symbolic gesture and what it means for rights in the Kingdom
By Chak Sopheap

Editorial

Democratic illusions

The illusion of democracy has cast its net wide in Southeast Asia. This week we looked at the dangers human rights activists face in Thailand, how public flogging humiliates and degrades people in Indonesia’s Aceh province, what Cambodia’s future is projected to look like, and more.
By Julija Veljkovic

Socially conscious art

Snapping social issues

Filipino 37-year-old documentary photographer Vicente Jaime R. Villafranca has covered his home country’s under-examined and misunderstood issues for years. He spoke to Southeast Asia Globe about gaining a gang’s trust and how the climate crisis is impacting low-income communities.
By Samantha McCabe

Editorial

Blood ties

This week, we looked at Indonesia and the dangers of building political systems based on blood ties, Thailand’s artists shedding light on LGBTQ issues, the soft skills shortage among Cambodian workers, and more.
By Chia Chi Hsu

Future Forum

POWERED BY Into the Future The last two decades have changed Cambodia almost beyond recognition. From a nation scarred by years of civil war, the Kingdom has risen into a hub of international investment with a flourishing middle class. Now, the people…
By Daniel Marchette