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STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 02, 2020 • 4 min read

Covid-19 Masks are everywhere in Asia, but have they helped?

By Chia Chi Hsu • Apr 02, 2020
It's a debate that has raged ever since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic – are face masks effective in preventing transmission or do they create more health risks than they solve?

STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 02, 2020 • 13 min read

COVID-19 On the tail of a virus

By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Apr 02, 2020
In Phnom Penh, US researchers have teamed up with the Pasteur Institute to conduct vital work tracking the spread and mutation of Covid-19. Their research has placed Cambodia at the heart of Southeast Asia's efforts to stem the spread of the disease and find a cure

STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 01, 2020 • 4 min read

Refugees and the displaced Jan Egeland: Humanitarian work must adapt to dangers of Covid-19

By Andrew Haffner • Apr 01, 2020
Jan Egeland has been Secretary General of humanitarian group the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013, overseeing projects in more than 30 countries globally. He spoke with the Globe this week about how Covid-19 has, overnight, dramatically changed the way the industry works with refugees and the displaced

STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 01, 2020 • 9 min read

Gender in Singapore Breaking up the boys’ club

By Amanda Oon • Apr 01, 2020
Finance has long been a boys' club, with Singapore no different. Today, FinTech offers more women a way in, but there remains a lack of diversity at its highest levels. Here, two of Singapore's most successful female financial figures offer their reflections on the sector

Mar 31, 2020 • 2 min read
LGBTQ rights

Singapore court rejects challenge to gay sex ban

A fresh bid to overturn a colonial-era Singapore law banning gay sex failed on Monday as a court dismissed challenges posed by three people, a major setback for efforts to promote greater LGBT rights in Asia
By AFP • Mar 31, 2020

Mar 31, 2020 • 9 min read
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 • Mar 31, 2020

Mar 30, 2020 • 14 min read
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 • Mar 30, 2020

Mar 27, 2020 • 5 min read
COVID-19

Cambodia’s COVID-19 “fake news” crackdown

The Cambodian government has undertaken a recent spate of arrests, charging people with spreading "fake news" regarding COVID-19. Rights groups have expressed concern that this is merely a pretext for a clampdown on political dissent
By Miriam Deprez • Mar 27, 2020

Mar 27, 2020 • 2 min read
Editorial

Keep on moving

This week, under the ever-looming shadow of COVID-19, we marked the 5th anniversary of the death of Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew. We also delved into the world of type-faces in Southeast Asia – with these seemingly innocuous characters having a monumental impact on the way people live and communicate across the region
By Alastair McCready • Mar 27, 2020

Mar 27, 2020 • 6 min read
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 • Mar 27, 2020