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Before the Storm Hits

WFP cash assistance in the Philippines helps communities prepare better and recover quicker
By World Food Programme

Tales of the Pandemic

Evicted from Harvard, returning to Singapore

Singaporean Yong Han Poh has called Harvard University home for the past four years. But when the global pandemic hit, it all came to an abrupt end, with her forced to pack her life up and leave for good virtually overnight
By Yong Han Poh

Statelessness in Thailand

The state of being

A holder of various international awards for social and environmental activism, Tuenjai Deetes has dedicated her life to eliminating statelessness in Thailand, fighting for the citizenship rights of the country's remote northern hill tribes
By Magdalena Rojo

Tales of the Pandemic

Quarantine in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital

After coming down with a fever three weeks ago, an expat was admitted to Phnom Penh's Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. In the second of our personal essays looking at life during COVID-19, we publish their account of life inside a Cambodian government quarantine
By Andrew Haffner

Art

Colouring outside the lines

Two Malaysian artists, both of them women, are making their voices heard amid the din of conservatism and patriarchy through cartoons that challenge the status quo.
By Najua Ismail

Animal welfare

The kampong dogs of Singapore

The Animal Lodge is more than just a refuge for stray animals. Its concrete walls pose the question of how Singapore can keep a human touch amid mass development
By Toh Ee Ming

Cambodian Refugees

Memories of a refugee childhood

In 1991, sixteen Khmer families from Cambodian refugee camps received asylum in the Netherlands. Chhay Lin Lim's family was among them. Lin Lim was born in the camp in 1986, now he's sharing his early memories of life living as a refugee
By Chhay Lin Lim

Editorial

Growing pains

From chatting to the Killing Fields screenwriter, to profiling some of Southeast Asia's bravest environmental activists, here's what we covered this week.
By Julija Veljkovic

Thailand photography

Uncle Chet’s meat supply

Amid its rapidly modernising and increasingly sanitised landscape, only small pockets of old Bangkok survive today. Photographer Marcel Mayer shadows Uncle Chet, a pig slaughterer in the city's historic Chinatown for decades, who is one such living relic of a bygone era
By Marcel Mayer

Indonesian public health

Meeting the mark

Despite being Southeast Asia's largest economy, Indonesia's children are among the most stunted and malnourished in the world. The Globe looks at the causes of this public health crisis in the vast archipelago nation
By Alastair McCready

Child abuse

The online threat

With crimes committed using technology increasingly at the forefront of efforts by law enforcement and NGOs, in Cambodia a new unit dedicated to tackling the growth of online child abuse has just been formed
By Samantha McCabe

Commerce in Singapore

Shop til they drop

Top Read 2017: With vacancy rates for Singapore’s glamorous shopping malls at an all-time high, is the city-state losing its lustre as the region’s shopping hub?
By Kirsten Han