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Jan 18, 2021 • 4 min read
Natural disasters

Indonesian medics overwhelmed by quake casualties

Medics in Indonesia battled exhaustion and the risk of Covid-19 as they raced on January 18 to treat scores of people injured by a devastating 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Sulawesi island that killed 84 and left thousands homeless
By Andi Hajramurni and Dessy Sagita/AFP

Jan 13, 2021 • 7 min read
Food culture

New and old meet as social media breathes life into Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown

Kuala Lumpur's Petaling Street has a long and rich culinary history as the historic centre of the capital's Chinese community. But having fallen into disrepair, today it is undergoing a revival, spurred on by the social media boom among Malaysia’s urban middle class
By Huei Ting Cheong

Jan 12, 2021 • 8 min read
Human rights

‘On a huge scale in Cambodia’: Director talks slave labour in Thai fisheries

While many of the industry's worst excesses have been cleaned up in recent years, bondage labour persists aboard Southeast Asia's fishing vessels. Following the reemergence of his film Buoyancy, director Rodd Rathjen talks about the conditions he witnessed in Thailand's infamous fisheries
By Stew Post

Jan 11, 2021 • 9 min read
History

In defence of MSG: The seasoning that revolutionised Thai cuisine

Monosodium glutamate, better known as MSG, has a rough reputation in the culinary world for its perceived bad health effects. But this naturally occurring ingredient has simplified and revolutionised the preparation of Thai cuisine, helping to bring good food to the masses
By Wanpen Pajai

Jan 02, 2021 • 3 min read
Editorial

The end is nigh

It’s here, that moment we’ve all been waiting for in this seemingly endless race to the bottom throughout this calendar year – the end of 2020! We at the Globe warmly welcome this development, and to mark this most auspicious of occasions we end the year with strong coverage from around the region. We kick things off with a new contributor, investigative reporter Klas Lundstrom, who provides us with the latest from Indonesia’s fast-escalating, yet under-reported, conflict in West Papua. We also have the latest from the Globe’s stringer in Singapore, Ashley Tan, who tackles a lesser-seen angle on race and ethnicity in a city-state constructed around it. See you next year!
By Andrew Haffner

Dec 31, 2020 • 2 min read
Human rights

US bans palm oil imports from second Malaysian firm

For the second time in recent months, the United States has banned imports from a Malaysian palm oil giant over concerns that its workers face a litany of abuse, including sexual and physical violence, withholding of wages and restrictions on movement
By Agence France-Presse

Dec 23, 2020 • 3 min read
Covid-19

Elephant Santas spread virus awareness among Thai children

Christmas and Thailand's love of elephants combined when four of the gentle giants dressed as Santa Claus turned up at a school just outside Bangkok, complete with huge coronavirus masks, in an effort to raise awareness around Covid-19
By Agence France-Presse

Dec 23, 2020 • 7 min read
Analysis

Power to the people? Cambodia’s Lower Sesan II Dam, two years on

When the Lower Sesan II Dam began operations in December 2018, the project came with a flurry of promises on how it would benefit the surrounding community, as well as Cambodia as a whole. Two years on, how many of those promises have become reality?
By Horn Chanvoitey

Dec 22, 2020 • 7 min read
Pollution

As Singapore’s shores become garbage magnet, group leads the clean-up

Surrounded by the world's worst plastic polluters, the shores of ultra-clean Singapore have become a magnet for waste. With their team of beachcombers, Seven Clean Seas are tackling the issue, while also looking for region-wide solutions to the issue of polluted oceans
By Toh Ee Ming

Dec 21, 2020 • 4 min read
Natural resources

Cambodia’s giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril

More than a million people live on or around Tonle Sap lake, the world's largest inland fishery, but as a result of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong, water levels are falling and fish stocks are dwindling
By Suy Se/AFP

Dec 18, 2020 • 5 min read
Opinion

Putting migrant workers at the heart of Covid-19 recovery

To mark International Migrants Day, Kristin Parco, Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration in Cambodia, and Graeme Buckley of the International Labour Organization highlight the vital role migrant workers play in Cambodia and worldwide
By Kristin Parco and Graeme Buckley