By Miriam Deprez • Apr 25, 2020
As April 25th marks World Malaria Day, the Globe spoke with Dr Arjen Dondorp about the Mekong nations' steady march towards complete elimination by 2030. However, he warns that if complacency takes hold as Covid-19 takes centre stage, it will spell disaster for the region

By Andrew Haffner • Apr 23, 2020
Dams, economic interests and political power are just some of the factors contributing to the over-exploitation of the mighty Mekong. With several competing transnational bodies established to oversee its development, will any of them halt the river’s decline?

By Alastair McCready • Apr 20, 2020
With the Covid-19 death toll reaching into the hundreds-of-thousands, the people behind the figures become easily obscured. Here, the Globe's editor Alastair McCready talks about losing his father this month, unable to speak to or visit him in the south London isolation ward where he passed

By Alexi Demetriadi • Apr 18, 2020
In Cambodia, a recently passed bill has handed the government the ability to enact sweeping emergency powers during times of crisis. Is this simply a necessary move to combat the pandemic, or are fundamental human rights under threat?