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Covid-19

The fight against child malnutrition in rural Cambodia during Covid

Since the pandemic began, children in rural Cambodia have been hardest hit by the knock-on effects of the virus, with a worrying increase in malnutrition that is threatening to reverse the Kingdom's progress made in child health over the last decade
By Joe Patchett

City planning

As wetlands are filled, Phnom Penh ignores Bangkok’s flooding lessons

As Bangkok attempts, at high cost, to reverse much of the damage done to the flood-prone city by restoring a more porous landscape, next door in Phnom Penh, wetlands are filled and skyscrapers erected as the Cambodian capital runs the risk of being submerged
By Wanpen Pajai

Deforestation

As the tides rise with Vietnam’s flooding, how did we get here?

It happens every year. It’s normal, to an extent, for the communities impacted. But this year’s record-breaking floods in Vietnam are different, with the devastating effects of decades of environmental mismanagement beginning to show
By Ashley Lampard

Flooding

[Photos] The Cambodian communities living under water

Recent weeks have seen some of the worst flooding in Cambodia for decades, leaving communities across the Kingdom submerged. What has resulted has been death and injury, displaced households, and major interruptions to the education of young students
By Christine Redmond

Podcast

The Anakut podcast: The fate of the Mighty Mekong

Joining Meng and Andrew in their Phnom Penh studio this week are Ham Oudom and Pich Charadine, with chatter turning to one, very large, issue – the fate of the once-Mighty Mekong
By Andrew Haffner

Opinion

The hidden plight of Phnom Penh’s urban poor during flooding

Cambodia has experienced severe flooding in recent weeks, with large sections of the capital under water. But major events like these don't tell the whole story, with small and consistent issues associated with flooding worsening a cycle of poverty among the urban poor
By Horn Chanvoitey

Industry 4.0

Cambodia’s newest dairy farm offers vision of tech-driven agriculture

Cambodia's agricultural sector is still heavily reliant on traditional, and inefficient, methods of cultivation. But the Kingdom's newest dairy farm, Kirisu, offers a vision of how technology could play a bigger role in helping the ailing sector offer better yields
By Andrew Haffner

Podcast

Introducing Anakut: The podcast about Cambodia’s future

With plenty of help from our friends, the Globe team is launching onto the airwaves. In the inaugural episode of our very first podcast we chat with Future Forum president Ou Virak and economist Chheng Kimlong about Covid-19 and the Kingdom
By Andrew Haffner

Waste management

The black rolling hills of Hanoi’s bursting Nam Son trash site

As Hanoi’s biggest landfill Nam Son nears capacity, causing widespread pollution, disease and land disputes in nearby communities, tensions between locals and officials are ramping up as demands for compensation are ignored
By Ashley Lampard

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

LGBTQ+ rights

‘Going to a border checkpoint is a nightmare’: Being transgender in Brunei

In April 2019, Brunei introduced the final phases of its regressive Sharia Penal Code, rendering homosexual acts punishable by stoning. While it's yet to be put into practice, the looming threat of the law has transgender Bruneians living in fear both at home and abroad
By Matthew Woolfe

Covid-19

Green shoots: Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore

On the rooftop of a Singapore shopping mall, a sprawling patch of eggplants, rosemary, bananas and papayas stand in colourful contrast to the grey skyscrapers of the city-state's business district
By Martin Abbugao/AFP