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STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 15, 2013 • 5 min read

Rebel with a cause

By Sacha Passi • Feb 15, 2013
Breaking through Indonesia’s administrative glass ceiling has proven difficult for ex-trade minister Mari Pangestu, but a chance to lead the World Trade Organisation may push her to new heights

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 14, 2013 • 3 min read

Dungeons and dragons

By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 14, 2013
The mythology behind some of Southeast Asia’s most iconic sites

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 14, 2013 • 7 min read

law and order Justice in the dock

By Bridget Di Certo • Feb 14, 2013
The spotlight has once again been cast on the Kingdom’s fractured judiciary. What are the roots of its problems?

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 13, 2013 • 2 min read

Porsche to roll into Cambodia

By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 13, 2013
Luxury car manufacturers are seizing an opportunity to tap into increasing demand for new automobiles in Cambodia, after new car sales rose sharply in 2012.

Feb 13, 2013 • 7 min read

Bangkok gridlock

The capital is already bumper-to-bumper, and there is no respite in sight
By Liam Aran Barnes • Feb 13, 2013

Feb 12, 2013 • 2 min read

The impressionist

The considered brushstrokes of Thomas-Pierre give new life to the Iconic symbol that is Angkor
By Sacha Passi • Feb 12, 2013

Feb 11, 2013 • 6 min read

A pocket of resilience

From the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the edge of the tourist trail in northern Laos
By Matthew Crompton • Feb 11, 2013

Feb 08, 2013 • 0 min read
Cambodia

Portraits of a cremation

In Photos: King-Father Norodom Sihanouk's cremation
By Southeast Asia Globe • Feb 08, 2013

Feb 07, 2013 • 5 min read

Exit stage left

Former Khmer Rouge Tribunal lawyer Andrew Ianuzzi talks Nuon Chea, Dr Dre and his decision to leave Cambodia’s “bad Gilbert and Sullivan”
By Daniel Otis • Feb 07, 2013

Feb 05, 2013 • 8 min read

Long live the king?

Following the death of royal patriarch King Father Norodom Sihanouk, what does the future hold for the royal family? Trude Jacobsen, assistant director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University gives her thoughts
By arjuna • Feb 05, 2013

Feb 05, 2013 • 3 min read

To cremate a King

Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Photo by Lim Mengkong Cambodia’s King-Father, Norodom Sihanouk, was cremated in a public ceremony on the evening of February 4. In Phnom Penh, more than one million mourners lined the streets while government officials, members of the royal family, Buddhist clergy and foreign dignitaries clustered around the towering Veal Preah Meru stupa to witness the cremation. Daniel Otis provides a glimpse of the final event.
By Daniel Otis • Feb 05, 2013