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By
Daniel Besant
• Jun 09, 2015
China’s moves in the South China Sea have incensed some Southeast Asian nations, and the Philippines’ foreign minister is getting right in the thick of it
By
David Hutt
• Jun 04, 2015
Geopolitical tensions over Laos are on the rise, particularly given its unflinching approach to the construction of dams on the Mekong River
By
Tan Wah Piow
• Jun 04, 2015
London-based human rights lawyer Tan Wah Piow gives his thoughts on the state of Singapore following the passing of Lee Kuan Yew. Piow is a former student leader in the city-state who went into exile in 1976 following his imprisonment on a rioting charge that he says was “trumped up”. His Singaporean citizenship was revoked in 1987, but he continues to write and speak at public forums on issues of democratic reform in Singapore
Derided by Washington powerbrokers and ignored by swathes of the mainstream media, Noam Chomsky is, nonetheless, said to be the eighth most frequently cited academic source of all time – coming in just below Plato and Freud. Southeast Asia Globe spoke with the world’s most famed public intellectual and political firebrand about the growing threat of conflict between the US and China and the roles of both superpowers in the region
By
David Hutt
• Jun 02, 2015
Actor Chris Pratt, known variously as Monkeyboy to his friends, Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy and now dino expert Owen Grady in Jurassic World, has come a long way in a short time. Here he talks about breaking the mould, sticking to the masterplan and his love of cockroaches
By
Elizabeth Hergest-Kemp
• Jun 01, 2015
“Nothing in science can account for the way people feel about orchids… They are the sexiest flowers on earth,” said Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief. Perhaps that is why a few intrepid souls are drawn to a remote area of Myanmar in search of some of Southeast Asia’s rarest blooms
By
Brent Lewin
• Apr 27, 2015
Maison&Objet Asia brought together some of the region’s most gifted designers, proving that Southeast Asia is bubbling with ideas and creativity
By
Ellie Dyer
• Apr 22, 2015
