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STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 19, 2021 • 9 min read

Power Despite promise, natural gas faces a difficult road to power in Vietnam

By Michael Tatarski • Aug 19, 2021
As opposition grows to coal power due to its environmental impact, Liquid Natural Gas has been touted as a cleaner energy pathway for Vietnam. But financial and bureaucratic hurdles, as well as questionable green credentials, leaves natural gas development in doubt

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 18, 2021 • 3 min read

Urban planning The Anakut podcast: What comes next for rapidly changing Phnom Penh?

By Andrew Haffner • Aug 18, 2021
Roughly doubling in size and population over the past decade, Phnom Penh is a rapidly changing city. What the next 10 years hold is hard to predict, but we've brought on Ngo Natharoun, head of the Center for Khmer Studies, and Michael Waibel, lead of the Build4People urbanism project, to offer their insights

Aug 17, 2021 • 10 min read
Myanmar coup

Myanmar’s garment workers squeezed between boycotts, brands and junta

As large fashion brands begin placing garment orders once again in Myanmar, the sector's largely female workforce must balance diminished worker’s rights, threats to physical safety and post-coup political considerations with the need for a paycheque
By Kiana Duncan • Aug 17, 2021

Aug 16, 2021 • 3 min read
Malaysia

Malaysia’s Prime Minister quits after just 17 months in office

Malaysia's Muhyiddin Yassin and his government resigned after criticisms over power-grabbing amidst coronavirus outbreak, throwing the country into fresh political turmoil
By Sam Reeves and M. Jegathesan/AFP • Aug 16, 2021

Aug 16, 2021 • 13 min read
Reproductive health

Liberal laws and fetus cemeteries: Vietnam’s conflicted abortion stance

Despite liberal laws and among the highest abortion rates in the world, stigma towards the practice is pervasive in Vietnam. Representing a hard-line faction of anti-abortion sentiment, groups across the country collect fetal remains from clinics for burial
By Govi Snell • Aug 16, 2021

Aug 13, 2021 • 4 min read
Covid-19

In Indonesia, parents grieve over child Covid victims

The Southeast Asian nation has been hit by its worst Covid-19 surge yet as the ultra-infectious Delta variant sent deaths skyrocketing and left a trail of devastated parents in its wake
By Dessy Sagita and Haeril Halim/AFP • Aug 13, 2021

Aug 13, 2021 • 10 min read
Covid-19

Cambodian migrant workers struggle to survive in locked-down Thailand

As Thailand undergoes its worst Covid-19 outbreak yet, much of the country has been placed under strict lockdown. For low-wage Cambodian migrant workers in the kingdom, this has meant a lack of food, wages and healthcare, while returning home is no easy feat
By Samphors Sao and Wanpen Pajai • Aug 13, 2021

Aug 12, 2021 • 2 min read
Khmer Rouge

Top Khmer Rouge leader to appeal genocide conviction

Next week, the last surviving Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan will begin an appeal against his life imprisonment for genocide more than four decades ago
By Agence France-Presse • Aug 12, 2021

Aug 12, 2021 • 9 min read
Myanmar coup

In the US, activists push for bill that would strip the Tatmadaw of billions

Last weekend Myanmar activists in the US marched to the White House calling for lawmakers to formally recognise the NUG, shut off the Tatmadaw’s international sources of revenue and reassign $1 billion in assets to the provisional government
By Ryan Anders • Aug 12, 2021