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STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 27, 2019 • 3 min read

Editorial Out of reach.

By Paul Millar • Jul 27, 2019
This week we’re looking at Cambodia’s urgent need for aged care, how social media entered the fight against HIV and why the region’s governments are struggling to raise the revenue they need.

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 26, 2019 • 13 min read

Aged care The lost generation

By Thomas Brent • Jul 26, 2019
Jobs are scarce in rural Cambodia, forcing hundreds of thousands of young parents to emigrate – and leave their young children in the hands of hard-pressed grandparents who get little help from the government

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 25, 2019 • 10 min read

Infrastructure funding No tax, no spend

By Simon Roughneen • Jul 25, 2019
Southeast Asia’s governments have some of the world’s smallest tax takes, leaving the region struggling to pay for infrastructure and budget for health and education

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 24, 2019 • 9 min read

Plastic waste imports Waste not, want not

By Paul Millar • Jul 24, 2019
The discovery of 1,600 tonnes of illegal plastic waste in a Cambodian port is just the latest example of wealthy nations heaping their trash on countries ill-equipped to handle it

Jul 23, 2019 • 13 min read
HIV-AIDS in Indonesia

Going viral

HIV remains a serious problem in Indonesia. And as the government's anti-LGBT crackdown drives more and more people in search of answers, misinformation about the disease can prove fatal
By Evie Breese • Jul 23, 2019

Jul 22, 2019 • 12 min read
HIV-AIDS

My body, this temple

From our print archive: A hospice for dying HIV-AIDS patients has found a unique way to raise funds by turning their anguish into a tourist attraction
By Andrew MacGregor Marshall • Jul 22, 2019

Jul 19, 2019 • 9 min read
Analysis

Destiny’s child

Three decades after Aung San Suu Kyi was first sentenced to house arrest for her fight for democracy in Myanmar, the Nobel laureate is now arguably the main obstacle to the country putting its past behind it
By Hunter Marston • Jul 19, 2019

Jul 18, 2019 • 10 min read
Poverty

Living on the edge

Scraping through the refuse of Yangon’s slums for scraps to sell, children and adults alike find themselves caught between economic crisis in the countryside and a rapidly developing city that threatens to swallow their makeshift homes
By Lorcan Lovett • Jul 18, 2019

Jul 17, 2019 • 16 min read
Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Crime and punishment

From our print archive: Establishing the incredible against those who wish to defend the indefensible will be the grim task of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
By Craig Guthrie • Jul 17, 2019

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Jul 16, 2019 • 15 min read
Piracy

A pirate’s paradise

In part two of our deep dive into modern-day piracy, we investigate why the region's governments seem willing to turn a blind eye to the pirates plundering their seas
By Robin Spiess • Jul 16, 2019

Jul 15, 2019 • 3 min read
Editorial

Under the surface.

This week we’re looking at Southeast Asia’s hidden pirate problem, the bumpy start of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, how Aung San Suu Kyi took her country backwards and more.
By Paul Millar • Jul 15, 2019

Jul 12, 2019 • 8 min read
Cambodian music

Music of the spirits

For millennia, Cambodia's pleng arak musicians have summoned up the Kingdom's countless spirits through their songs. But with more and more Cambodians turning to doctors instead of deities, will the country's sacred spirit musicians fall silent?
By Emily Howe • Jul 12, 2019