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Nov 12, 2020 • 4 min read
ASEAN

Huge China-backed trade pact to be signed at Southeast Asian summit

The world's largest trade pact is set to be signed today the 37th ASEAN summit in Hanoi. The Chinese-led pact, seen a major coup boosting Beijing's influence in the region, will loop in 10 Southeast Asian economies
By Alice Philipson and Martin Abbugao/AFP

Sep 21, 2020 • 3 min read
Editorial

The biggest protest in years

The Globe team has been hard at work for another week of clips from around Southeast Asia. Our Thai bureau (also known as Globe reporters Wanpen Pajai and Tara Abhasakun) went deep this past week into #whatshappeninginthailand, delivering a major dispatch from the weekend protest outside the royal palace in Bangkok that organisers and local media have dubbed the biggest demonstration in years.
By Andrew Haffner

Sep 16, 2020 • 7 min read
Human rights

Pinoy Lives Matter: Duterte’s drug war rages on through pandemic

Rodrigo Duterte's drug war has claimed the lives of thousands in the four years he's been in power in the Philippines. Despite strict stay-at-home measures in place during much of the pandemic, with millions under lockdown, the rate of killing has only increased
By Niko Vorobyov

Sep 04, 2020 • 2 min read
History

[Photos] 15 shots of sleek, clean and stylish 1960s Manila

Today, Manila is a sprawling metropolis largely dominated by anonymous high-rise condominium blocks, shopping malls and traffic-clogged highways. But back in the 1960s, more evident was a clean, sleek and modernising city displaying an abundance of character
By Alastair McCready

Aug 31, 2020 • 2 min read
Editorial

Youth protests and LGBTQ armed revolutionaries

This week, as protests continue unabated in Thailand, the Globe provides a platform for the the kingdom's student activists. First we serve up a piece of analysis by the Globe's eyes and ears in Bangkok Wanpen Pajai, before hearing from Mahidol student activist Francis Bunkueanun Paothong about his organisation's perspective on the movement. We also speak with former armed revolutionary Aung Myo Min on the 20th anniversary of Equality Myanmar, as he tells us about the state of affairs for the country's LGBTQ community.
By Andrew Haffner

Aug 28, 2020 • 8 min read
Analysis

Does Japanese FDI grow negative media coverage of China in ASEAN?

Analysing 175,000 news articles by Southeast Asian media outlets, researchers from the Naval Postgraduate School in the US observed a trend – perceptions of Chinese in-country activities are less positive in countries with greater Japanese investment
By Elizabeth Gooch, Katharina Grimm and Christopher Hayes

Aug 21, 2020 • 10 min read
History

Not settling for less: Anti-opium movements in the Straits Settlements

While opium addiction emerged as a region-wide scourge in the 19th century, abolitionists in the small British colony of the Straits Settlements took on the imperial government and played an instrumental role in bringing about a worldwide ban
By Wanpen Pajai

Aug 17, 2020 • 2 min read
Thai economy

Thailand’s economy shrinks most in more than 20 years

Thailand's economic growth contracted by 12.2% in the second quarter of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the steepest drop for the tourism-driven economy since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis
By Agence France-Presse

Jul 24, 2020 • 3 min read
Space

Myanmar joins band of Asian nations launching satellites

Myanmar is boldly preparing to launch its first-ever satellite, joining an unlikely coalition of nascent space nations aiming to protect millions from environmental disasters
By Richard Sargent and Su Myat Mon/AFP

Jul 23, 2020 • 6 min read
Human rights

As Uighur abuses condemned, Southeast Asia’s silence is deafening

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
By Alexi Demetriadi