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STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 26, 2020 • 7 min read

Opinion One small step at a time, one giant leap for Thai democracy

By Francis Bunkueanun Paothong • Aug 26, 2020
Student protestors in Thailand are venturing into uncharted territory, with radical calls for reform of the monarchy and government, but student activist Francis Bunkueanun Paothong of Mahidol University believes the movement must aim small to achieve big change

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 25, 2020 • 3 min read

Corruption Cyprus hits back at cash-for-passports claims

By Agence France-Presse • Aug 25, 2020
The Cypriot government has hit back at fresh claims that its 'golden passport' investment scheme, one that has been controversially used by high-ranking Cambodian officials to obtain EU passports, has been exploited by criminals

STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 25, 2020 • 8 min read

LGBTQ rights Myanmar’s LGBTQ armed revolutionary continues fight two decades on

By Alexi Demetriadi • Aug 25, 2020
Former armed revolutionary and current human rights activist Aung Myo Min establshed Equality Myanmar 20 years ago last month. But even after inroads, equality for the LGBTQ+ community in the staunchly conservative country remains a distant reality

Aug 24, 2020 • 9 min read
Covid-19

Homebound predators and hard-hit families: Filipino child abuse on the rise

With increased demand for child pornography during the pandemic, and the severe economic downturn hitting many families hard, reports of the online sexual exploitation of Filipino children have ballooned during the country's five month lockdown
By Tabitha Payne • Aug 24, 2020

Aug 24, 2020 • 3 min read
Editorial

Unwind and relax

Last week the Globe was taking some downtime to celebrate Khmer New Year. But while our screens were dimmed and swivel-chairs empty, we've got a few quirky bits of history to tide us over until we resume normal service this week. We look at the life and legacy of little-known Karen revolutionary leader Saw Ba U Gyi, delve into the memoirs of British photojournalist Jon Swain from his time in Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1970s, as well as cast an eye to the anti-opium movement of the Straits Settlements in the 19th and 20th centuries
By Andrew Haffner • Aug 24, 2020

Aug 21, 2020 • 10 min read
History

Not settling for less: Anti-opium movements in the Straits Settlements

While opium addiction emerged as a region-wide scourge in the 19th century, abolitionists in the small British colony of the Straits Settlements took on the imperial government and played an instrumental role in bringing about a worldwide ban
By Wanpen Pajai • Aug 21, 2020

Aug 20, 2020 • 8 min read
Photography

[Photos] Celebrating Vietnam’s ethnic minorities through portraiture

With 54 registered minority groups, Vietnam is a land of immense cultural diversity. Photographer Alden Anderson and his Vietnamese partner Trinh Nguyen have set out to capture this heterogeneity, traversing the country to capture portraits of each group
By Andrew Wernette • Aug 20, 2020

Aug 19, 2020 • 13 min read
History

Witnessing tragedy: Journalist Jon Swain revisits 1970s Phnom Penh

With Jon Swain’s cult memoir River of Time set to be adapted for the big screen, the author returns to his time in 1970s Indochina, where he witnessed death and destruction in Vietnam, the Fall of Phnom Penh and the rise of the Khmer Rouge
By Alexi Demetriadi • Aug 19, 2020

Aug 18, 2020 • 6 min read
Cinema

Region’s filmmakers offer their visions of the Mekong river in 2030

With the Mekong river under assault from climate change and damming, five of the Greater Mekong Subregion's filmmakers are offering their visions of what the lifeblood of Southeast Asia, and the communities that rely on it, will look like in a decades' time
By Ashley Lampard • Aug 18, 2020