Search results for "Philippines"

Jun 02, 2012 • 1 min read

Through Asian Eyes: Panorama Exhibition Singapore

Running for a mammoth eight months until Christmas Day 2012 at Singapore Art Museum, Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia offers a window on the explosion of art produced in Asia since 2000. Featuring artists from Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia, among others, Panorama charts issues affecting the continent…
By Southeast Asia Globe

May 28, 2012 • 6 min read

The people vs. Asean

The most recent Asean Summit was marked by significant clashes between the Cambodian chair and civil society organisations. Is this a new trend, or just an old habit?
By Frédéric Janssens

May 25, 2012 • 2 min read

Tax me if you can

The future could be bright for private banking and tax evasion in Southeast Asia
By Southeast Asia Globe

May 02, 2012 • 4 min read

The clones are coming

One of Europe’s most aggressive website copycats is bringing some much needed competition to e-commerce in Southeast Asia
By Peter Janssen

Dec 16, 2011 • 10 min read
Meth

Asia’s favourite high

Regional governments’ attempts to stifle the rise of methamphetamines is failing
By Andrew Marshall

Nov 21, 2011 • 5 min read

Coupon clash

As discount deal websites explode in the region, a Thai company shows how it’s done Deep-discount deal sites have been surging throughout the United States and Europe for almost three years, but they were late off the starting blocks in Southeast Asia –…
By Susan Cunningham

Mar 04, 2011 • 10 min read

Serving the halal ecosystem

With the Islamic community now the fastest-growing consumer segment in the world, can businesses afford not to become part of the halal trend?
By Charlie Lancaster

Feb 09, 2011 • 9 min read
Ring of fire

Superstition to science

From reverence to fear to curiosity, these monsters of nature have proven to be a constant source of fascination. Southeast Asia Globe investigates how mankind’s relationship with volcanoes has evolved over the centuries
By Laura J Snook

Sep 19, 2010 • 7 min read

Troubled waters

Southeast Asia is the battleground for an international war being waged  over a group of floating political symbols – the disputed islands of the South China Sea
By Adam Miller

Jan 27, 2010 • 7 min read
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

Nov 10, 2009 • 12 min read

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