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STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 11, 2021 • 3 min read

Editorial Myanmar’s shadow government calls for uprising

By Jack Brook • Sep 11, 2021
The National Unity Government urged citizens to engage in a “defensive war” against the military junta, targeting personnel and assets. The international community condemned the calls for violence, pushing instead for peace.

Sep 04, 2021 • 4 min read
Editorial

Introducing the new faces of our editorial team … Amanda and Brian!

While we welcomed some new faces to our editorial team this week, we also tackled fake news in Cambodia, the fight for UN recognition in Myanmar, and took a ride with taxi drivers on the front lines in Ho Chi Minh City
By Alastair McCready • Sep 04, 2021

Sep 03, 2021 • 10 min read
Disinformation

What this failed fact checking scheme revealed about ‘truth’ in Cambodia

In late-July, the US-funded CambodiaCheck project would be launched to counter misinformation surrounding the Kingdom. Less than a month later, the fact checking initiative would be cut short, standing accused of spreading the very thing it set out to counter
By Alastair McCready • Sep 03, 2021

Aug 28, 2021 • 4 min read
Editorial

Kamala Harris visits Vietnam, Singapore, seeking regional allies

This week, we also took a look at why Malaysia’s contract doctors are on strike amidst a surging pandemic, what a sinister enemies list reveals about Thai government paranoia, and how Cambodia could become the centre of the Mekong’s drug trafficking
By Jack Brook • Aug 28, 2021

Aug 21, 2021 • 5 min read
Editorial

Afghanistan recalls the horrors of conflict in 1970s Southeast Asia

This week, we’ve also got a fantastic lead story exploring Vietnam’s conflicted views on abortion, a report on the difficult circumstances of garment workers in Myanmar and the finale of the Anakut podcast on the future of Phnom Penh
By Jack Brook • Aug 21, 2021

Aug 14, 2021 • 4 min read
Editorial

The future of Cambodia’s energy

This week, the Anakut podcast discusses the implications of Cambodia’s increasingly coal-oriented energy policy, while two of our reporters call attention to the dire situation of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand. We’ve also got updates on ASEAN’s new special envoy to Myanmar, a look back at the ethnic riots in Singapore in the 60s and finally a report on the protests and activists pushing for American sanctions against the Tatmadaw
By Jack Brook • Aug 14, 2021

Aug 07, 2021 • 4 min read
Editorial

Surviving the ‘new normal’ in Singapore and Indonesia’s deadly aviation industry

This week Weilee Yap made an impressive introduction as she published her first piece with the Globe looking at the plight of Singapore’s elderly amid the ‘new normal’. While we also delved into the crash of Adam Air flight 574, a disaster that speaks to not only mistakes made by the pilots that day, but to wider corruption in Indonesia’s aviation industry that continues on in 2021
By Alastair McCready • Aug 07, 2021