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STORY OF THE DAY • May 04, 2020 • 9 min read

Tales of the Pandemic Lockdown with the monks at Myanmar’s Pa-Auk monastery

By Bhante Bhikkhu Subhūti • May 04, 2020
As much of the world struggles with enforced isolation to stem the spread of Covid-19, there is one group who are better prepared than most to weather this storm. Buddhist monk Bhante Subhūti gives an insight into how his monastery near Mandalay is coping with this not-so-slow pace of life

STORY OF THE DAY • May 04, 2020 • 6 min read

Press Freedom Day Emojis, Minecraft and Spotify: How citizens are beating the censors

By Miriam Deprez • May 04, 2020
As we mark World Press Freedom Day 2020, the world's media outlets are struggling under the pressure of Covid-19 crackdowns. But while the tools available to censors have never been so great, the same is true of the innovative tools available to circumvent them

STORY OF THE DAY • May 04, 2020 • 3 min read

Editorial There’s something in the water

By Andrew Haffner • May 04, 2020
With viruses on everyone's mind, this week we turn to pharmaceuticals fast finding their way into the world's water supplies as people consume (and expel) antibiotics at unprecedented rates in human history. We also delve into the murky history of Cathay Pacific flight 700Z, which was mysteriously downed by a bomb in mid-air after taking off from Bangkok's Don Mueang airport in June 1972. The case remains unsolved to this day – did one alleged culprit, a Thai policeman no less, get away with murder?

May 01, 2020 • 8 min read
Cambodian economy

‘Government support for workers during Covid-19 insufficient’

With the halt of global tourism, and the mass cancellation of orders from the West, the global pandemic has hit the Cambodian economy especially hard. While the government has instituted support measures for workers, Cambodian labour rights organisation CENTRAL marks Labour Day 2020 with the message that it's not nearly enough
By Patrick Lee • May 01, 2020

May 01, 2020 • 8 min read
Labour unions

In Phnom Penh, NagaWorld lockdown means casino workers are suffering

On Labour Day 2020, NagaWorld union President Chhim Sithar says employees are financially struggling while waiting for Phnom Penh's sole gambling operator to reopen. But even during the Covid-19 shutdown, Sithar says the global fight for labour rights will go on
By Andrew Haffner • May 01, 2020

Apr 30, 2020 • 8 min read
The US-Vietnam War

Remembering the Fall of Saigon, 45 years on

April 30 marks 45 years since communist troops entered the city of Saigon, reuniting North and South Vietnam. Eye witness accounts from that day paint a picture of the scenes in what became Ho Chi Minh City, as Vietnam finally found peace after three decades
By James Springer • Apr 30, 2020

Apr 30, 2020 • 8 min read
Vietnam reunification

Reunification Game: How a 1976 football match brought Vietnam together

In 1976, a recently unified Vietnam was busy in its efforts to restore a sense of national unity between North and South. A football match was proposed, bringing men from opposing sides of the conflict together in the name of the People's Game
By Scott Sommerville • Apr 30, 2020

Apr 29, 2020 • 14 min read
War reporting

A homage to the photojournalists lost to decades of war in Vietnam

April 29 marks 50 years since the Cambodian Campaign began, while April 30 marks the 45th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, bringing an end to the US-Vietnam War. Marking the dates we return to one of our Most Read stories of 2008, a profile on book Requiem, serving as a tribute to the 135 photojournalists from all sides of the conflict who lost their lives in battle
By Tad Bartimus • Apr 29, 2020

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Apr 29, 2020 • 4 min read
Covid-19

Cambodian rum distillery puts hand sanitiser on the menu

With the price of hand sanitiser skyrocketing since the pandemic, Phnom Penh’s Samai Distillery has thought outside the box to help the local community by producing affordable bottles of cleansing alcohol using leftovers from rum production
By Alexi Demetriadi • Apr 29, 2020

Apr 28, 2020 • 9 min read
Covid-19

As the pandemic takes hold, Singapore’s mental health suffers

While attempts to stem the spread of Covid-19 has led to the shutdown of virtually all economic and social activity in Singapore, life grinding to a halt in the city-state is giving rise to a different public health issue: poor mental health
By Kelly Ng • Apr 28, 2020

Apr 28, 2020 • 4 min read
Myanmar tribes

Finding Nagaland: Tribes on India-Myanmar frontier dream of unity

Separated for generations by a British-created boundary following World War II, the Naga tribes straddling the India-Myanmar border have long fought for reunification. But now, amidst the coronavirus lockdown, they are more distant than ever
By Richard Sargent / AFP • Apr 28, 2020