The outlook seemed bleak for the Kingdom's garment industry when early last year Cambodia simultaneously lost tariff-free access to the EU and the pandemic struck the global economy. Almost 18 months on, Thina and Andrew speak with GMAC head Ken Loo and researcher Dennis Arnold to learn about the state of the industry today.
#Cambodia #Anakut #Podcast #Garment #AndrewHaffner

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/garment-workers-podcast/

As Cambodia reimposes lockdown in several provinces to contain the spread of Covid-19, women across the Kingdom once again face interruptions to vital sexual health services. This is what happened during April’s lockdown, with MSI Reproductive Choices witnessing the dire effects, as the organisation’s country director Ella Nwaokolo writes here.
#Cambodia #Health #Covid19 #EllaNwaokolo

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/sexual-health-services-cambodia/

It is estimated that there are more slaves today than at any time in human history, with the fisheries, brothels and construction sites of Southeast Asia home to some of the worst abuses. On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Mekong Club CEO Matt Friedman highlights the fight to end the practice.
#Region #Trafficking #HumanRights #MattFriedman

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/modern-day-slavery-southeast-asia/

Under the looming threat of violence since Myanmar's coup, activists in the country are working to ensure the highly-politicised programmes working to preserve ethnic languages don’t go missing for good, even if it means going into hiding. The Globe’s Kiana Duncan reports.
#Myanmar #Coup #Culture #Language #KianaDuncan

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/ethnic-languages-myanmar/

Indonesia sits among the worst ranking nations globally for fatal airline crashes, with Adam Air 574 offering a stark example of why. Though 14 years have passed since this devastating accident, few lessons, it seems, have been learned. Aviation accident analyst Kylan Dempsey recounts the series of events that led to the entirely avoidable deaths of 102 people on New Year’s Day in 2007.
#Indonesia #Aviation #Justice #KylanDempsey

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/killed-by-corruption-indonesia/

This week we take a walk through Prey Lang Forest, in theory a protected sanctuary, but which in recent years has witnessed rampant deforestation propelled by official corruption. In the process, it has become a cautionary tale illustrating just how badly things can go wrong with conservation efforts in Cambodia. Joining Thina and Andrew in the studio to discuss this are Meoun Chandara, an activist from the Cambodian Youth Network, and Fran Lambrick, a co-founder of environmental and human rights group Not1More.
#Cambodia #Anakut #Podcast #Conservation #AndrewHaffner

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/corruption-prey-lang/

Social isolation among the elderly was already a growing concern within fast-modernising Singapore prior to the pandemic. Now, with social distancing measures in place and health concerns abounding, social service groups must be creative to reach atomised elders. In her first piece for us, the Globe’s Singaporean reporter trainee Weilee Yap looks at how social support groups are navigating the pandemic to make sure those most vulnerable get the care they need.
#Singapore #Covid19 #Pandemic #Elderly #WeileeYap

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/elderly-suicide-singapore/

Despite cases of lèse-majesté piling up and pro-democracy protesters facing serious charges like sedition, Thailand’s third time through the Universal Periodic Review later this year will most likely be as inconsequential as previous UN human rights inspections. Globe columnist Mark S. Cogan, himself a UN consultant, spoke with several senior diplomats to offer his insight.
#Thailand #Justice #HumanRights #MarkSCogan

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/thailand-upr/

Last week, Brunei's Erywan Yusof was confirmed as ASEAN's new special envoy to Myanmar, in a move towards finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis. But a middle-ground candidate from the autocratic sultanate, his appointment offers limited hope for progress, writes Myanmar specialist Hunter Marston.
#Myanmar #Coup #ASEAN #Analysis #HunterMarston

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/asean-myanmar-envoy/

As Singapore marks 56 years of independence this week, Joshua Wan turns back the clock to a time when ethnic relations in the city-state were more fraught, revisiting and comparing two race riots in the 1960s as he draws insights for maintaining peaceful relations today.
#Singapore #Ethnic #Riot #JoshuaWan

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/singapore-ethnic-riots/

Until recently, Cambodia's energy was drawn from a healthy looking split of renewables and carbon fuels. But with a rash of announced coal-fired power projects, that ratio is set to significantly worsen by 2030. To discuss this, energy expert Chea Sophorn and ERIA's Venkatachalam Anbumozhi join Thina and Andrew in the studio.
#Cambodia #Anakut #Podcast #Energy #AndrewHaffner

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/cambodia-energy-policy/

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. The Globe’s Ryan Anders attended the event in the US capital, reporting back his findings.
#Myanmar #Coup #Protest #RyanAnders

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/burma-bill-myanmar/

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. In a special cross-border collaboration, Phnom Penh-based editorial intern Samphors Sao publishes her first piece, as the Globe’s Wanpen Pajai supports from the Thai capital Bangkok.
#Cambodia #Thailand #Workers #Covid19 #SamphorsSao #WanpenPajai

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/cambodian-migrants-thailand/

Despite liberal laws and among the highest abortion rates in the world, widespread stigma towards the practice remains pervasive in Vietnam. Representing a hard-line faction of pro-life sentiment, groups across the country collect fetal remains from hospitals and clinics for burial in mass cemeteries. The Globe’s reporter in Ho Chi Minh city Govi Snell spoke with several of these groups about what many would consider the extreme lengths they go to in the name of their cause.
#Vietnam #Health #Reproduction #Abortion #GoviSnell

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/vietnam-abortion-stance/

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. The Globe’s Kiana Duncan spoke with union’s inside the country, researchers abroad and the fashion brands themselves to learn more about the delicate balancing act going on in an industry crucial to the survival of some 700,000 people.
#Myanmar #Worker #Women #Coup #KianaDuncan

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/myanmars-garment-workers-coup/

Roughly doubling in size and population over the past decade, Phnom Penh is a rapidly changing city of sprouting sky scrapers and urban development. What the next 10 years hold is hard to predict, but co-hosts Thina and Andrew spoke with Ngo Natharoun, head of the Center for Khmer Studies, and Michael Waibel, lead of the Build4People urbanism project, to gather their insights.
#Cambodia #Podcast #Anakut #UrbanPlanning #AndrewHaffner

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/future-phnom-penh/

As opposition grows to thermal 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. Friend of the Globe Michael Tatarski writes about the future of energy in Vietnam for this Earth Journalism Network-funded piece.
#Vietnam #Energy #Environment #MichaelTatarski

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/lng-energy-vietnam/

This week, Myanmar reached a tragic milestone as the number of civilians murdered since the coup surpassed 1,000. Advocacy and rights group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has meticulously recorded each one, not allowing the junta to deny its crimes against humanity. Here, the organisation’s joint-secretary and co-founder Bo Kyi explains the importance of this mission.
#Myanmar #Coup #HumanRights #BoKyi

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/myanmar-junta-killed-coup/

Following the IPCC's landmark report earlier this month warning of an impending climate catastrophe, on World Mosquito Day, Dr. Sarthak Das warns of the potential for climate change to reverse much of the progress in eliminating malaria.
#SoutheastAsia #ClimateChange #Malaria #Health #SarthakDas

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/climate-change-malaria/

Malaysia’s growing cohort of contract doctors have experienced financial instability and burnout since 2016, as they are lumped with less secure and worse paid contracts than their permanent counterparts. Now, with life on the frontlines of the country’s escalating Covid-19 outbreak pushing many to the brink, they are pushing for unionisation through the Hartal Strike. First-time Globe contributor, Kymberley Chu, reports from Kuala Lumpur.
#Malaysia #Health #Covid19 #Rights #KymberleyChu

https://southeastasiaglobe.com/contract-doctors-malaysia/