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STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 21, 2014 • 6 min read

Out on the town

By Daniel Besant • Aug 21, 2014
Ever since becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008, Penang's George Town has been celebrating with an annual festival. Southeast Asia Globe headed out for the opening weekend to discover a rich and varied array of art, culture and life and left wanting more

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 20, 2014 • 8 min read

Indigenous Naked ambitions

By Joanna Mayhew • Aug 20, 2014
Despite their inaccessibility and lack of infrastructure, Indonesia’s remote Papuan highlands have begun to feel the claws of development, leaving the area’s youth at an awkward crossroads of tradition and modernity

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 20, 2014 • 1 min read

Dynamic and exciting

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 20, 2014
Rolls-Royce recently opened a showroom and maintenance center in Phnom Penh, feeding the city's growing upper class’s hunger for luxury

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 20, 2014 • 1 min read

In figures Asean

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 20, 2014
The latest of our 'In figures' on Asean

Aug 18, 2014 • 5 min read

Full steam ahead

With billions in Chinese cash flowing into Southeast Asian railway projects, governments must rethink their economic priorities to ensure they stay on track to regional connectivity
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 18, 2014

Aug 18, 2014 • 2 min read

Pharma boom?

The value of Indonesia’s pharmaceutical market is expected to almost double by 2020, but challenges remain
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 18, 2014

Aug 18, 2014 • 3 min read

Fire and brimstone

Wickedly sweet iced coffee is a signature beverage in Southeast Asia, but its sugary kick comes at a price for miners in East Java who battle toxic fumes and treacherous terrain to provide the sulphur used to process sugarcane
By Gembong Nusantara • Aug 18, 2014

Aug 15, 2014 • 8 min read

With bated breath

Just as real progress was being made, Cambodia is experiencing a tuberculosis funding gap at precisely the wrong time
By Leigh Ferguson • Aug 15, 2014

Aug 15, 2014 • 4 min read

A key growth region

Armin Keller, Volkswagen Group’s head of sales for Asean markets, discusses the prospects for the automotive sector in Southeast Asia
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 15, 2014

Aug 13, 2014 • 8 min read

Clear and present danger

Southeast Asia might struggle to sustain rapid economic expansion with the world’s growth patterns beginning to transform
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 13, 2014

Aug 11, 2014 • 4 min read

"I counselled Pete Doherty and Cat Marnell… addiction is a great leveller”

Simon Mott first took heroin as a 16-year-old and says he was “addicted immediately”. Twenty years later he turned his life around and later made his way to Thailand, where he was head counsellor at The Cabin rehab centre in Chiang Mai. He recently founded his own facility, the Hope Rehab Centre, in Sriracha, about a one-hour drive from Bangkok
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Aug 11, 2014