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STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 28, 2020 • 8 min read

Cambodian Refugees Memories of a refugee childhood

By Chhay Lin Lim • Feb 28, 2020
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

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 28, 2020 • 5 min read

Thailand photography Uncle Chet’s meat supply

By Marcel Mayer • Feb 28, 2020
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

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 26, 2020 • 13 min read

Environmental activism Fighting the green fight

By Rachna Thim • Feb 26, 2020
Across Southeast Asia, there are environmental activists risking their freedom and facing violence as they fight the green fight. Here we profile four of these unsung individuals campaigning in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 21, 2020 • 14 min read

Thai democracy After the Future

By Andrew Haffner • Feb 21, 2020
Thailand's Future Forward Party face the imminent threat of dissolution on February 21, but a new generation of emboldened grassroots anti-junta activists are ready to lead the charge in their place

Feb 17, 2020 • 11 min read
Thai democracy

Thanathorn: Future on trial

Thai opposition figure Thanathorn speaks exclusively to Southeast Asia Globe about the charges he and his Future Forward Party face, his plans should the party be dissolved, as well as upcoming protests in the kingdom
By Andrew Haffner • Feb 17, 2020

Feb 12, 2020 • 6 min read
Thailand railways

Rolling into the future

In January 2021, a new $1 billion transit hub in Bang Sue is set to usurp Hualamphong as Bangkok's main railway station. Photographer Tim Russell guides us through the last months of this iconic structure through a collection of his images
By Tim Russell • Feb 12, 2020

Feb 05, 2020 • 11 min read
Music festivals

Greening the festival circuit

Southeast Asia Globe caught up with Thai musician Notep in Chiang Mai at one of the region's growing number of socially conscious music festivals. Are they able to offer party goers guilt-free hedonism?
By Andrew Haffner • Feb 05, 2020

Jan 21, 2020 • 8 min read
Thailand's deep south

Teachers up in arms

Top Read: In 2007, we provided a glimpse of how Thailand's long-running conflict between government forces and separatist insurgents in the deep south impacted local teachers. Trapped in the middle of this decades-old conflict, how did these civilians trying to do their civic duty cope?
By Rory Byrne • Jan 21, 2020

Jan 07, 2020 • 11 min read
The year ahead

Watch this space

As a new decade dawns, Southeast Asia is a region on the brink of dramatic growth and change. Looking at our four pillars – Power, Money, Life and Earth – Southeast Asia Globe outlines some of the biggest stories, trends and events to watch out for in the region in the coming year
By Alastair McCready • Jan 07, 2020

Jan 06, 2020 • 6 min read
Bangkok's gentrification

The many faces of Khlongtoey

Bangkok's fabled Khlongtoey slum has long been regarded as a 'no-go zone' in the city by many. But now, facing destruction as the latest victim of the government's city-wide sanitising project, British photographer Tim Russell shines a light on the much-maligned community's vibrant characters and warm spirit
By Tim Russell • Jan 06, 2020

Dec 26, 2019 • 8 min read
2004 tsunami

The big wave

Fifteen years after the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004, Southeast Asia Globe looks back at the tragedy, examining its lasting impact and how the region is addressing the issue of disaster preparedness today.
By Samantha McCabe • Dec 26, 2019

Dec 20, 2019 • 8 min read
North Korean refugees

The long way South

Top read: As countries across Southeast Asia prepare to expel all North Korean migrant workers this weekend to comply with UN Resolution 2375, we return to a piece from 2011 looking at the then-growing trend of North Korean refugees fleeing oppression and abject poverty to seek refuge in Thailand
By Jared Ferrie • Dec 20, 2019