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STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 09, 2020 • 8 min read

Editorial A word on Recognising Resilience

By Samantha McCabe and Julija Veljkovic • Mar 09, 2020
For International Women’s Day 2020, we are devoting a week of content to stories that change the narrative and exhibit the strength and solidarity of the women of Southeast Asia.

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 06, 2020 • 4 min read

Cambodian Art Cat and the canvas

By Samantha McCabe • Mar 06, 2020
The Khmer artist behind the KBach Gallery's newest exhibition, Koem Keosocheat, chats about the environment, human rights and cats — the inspiration that started it all

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 06, 2020 • 2 min read

Editorial Past and Future

By Julija Veljkovic • Mar 06, 2020
From Cambodia's crumbling political opposition, to the housing crisis engulfing animals in Singapore, don't miss this week's stories.

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 06, 2020 • 15 min read

Animal welfare The kampong dogs of Singapore

By Toh Ee Ming • Mar 06, 2020
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

Mar 04, 2020 • 15 min read
Cambodian democracy

Courting opposition

Despite a boom in supposed opposition parties filling the void left by the CNRP, true democracy in Cambodia seems farther out of grasp than ever before
By Andrew Haffner • Mar 04, 2020

Mar 03, 2020 • 9 min read
Coral reefs

Under the waves

Mainstream understanding says that the world's coral reefs will largely vanish to climate change by 2050. But more and more marine scientists believe their resilience has been underestimated, with researchers working in the Coral Triangle region now emphasising the adaptability of Indonesian reef systems
By Minka Curr • Mar 03, 2020

Mar 02, 2020 • 12 min read
Deep South conflict

At the negotiating table

This week, the Thai government and Malay Muslims are engaging in a peace dialogue that seems among the best hopes yet of resolving decades of violence in the country's Deep South. Observers are cautiously optimistic, but at the grassroots level, not everyone in the southern provinces agrees
By Lukas Messmer • Mar 02, 2020

Feb 28, 2020 • 8 min read
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 • Feb 28, 2020

Feb 28, 2020 • 3 min read
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 • Feb 28, 2020

Feb 28, 2020 • 5 min read
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 • Feb 28, 2020

Feb 27, 2020 • 11 min read
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 • Feb 27, 2020