By Andrew Haffner • Jan 09, 2021
The Globe’s Ashley Lampard hit the dirt trails of downtown Hanoi, venturing over to Banana Island – among the last green holdouts in the Vietnamese capital. While famous for its nudist colony and banana plantations, Ashley met with the community whose livelihoods are under threat from looming development. Lead editor Alastair McCready also marks an important date in Cambodian history, the Vietnamese invasion of Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, toppling the Khmer Rouge. While enmity towards Vietnam has thrived since that day, observers believe feelings may be warming

By Dian Maya Safitri • Jan 08, 2021
Indonesia is the world's third largest democracy, but low levels of women's political participation remain an unwanted caveat on that status. Dian Maya Safitri outlines how and why the archipelago nation should strive for a greater female presence in the halls of power

By Agence France-Presse • Jan 08, 2021
The Indonesian radical cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings, Abu Bakar Bashir, was freed from prison on January 8, authorities said, stirring grief and anger among victims nearly 20 years after Indonesia's worst ever terror attack

By Alastair McCready • Jan 07, 2021
Long-regarded as invaders and colonisers in the national narrative, the historically potent enmity shown by many Cambodians towards the Vietnamese is on the wane as the Kingdom's political and economic landscape dramatically shifts