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Life Along the Thai-Myanmar Frontier

The border town of Myawaddy has now fallen and ethnic rebels want negotiations with the Thai government.

15.04.2024 1

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Rating the Media: A Conversation With David Armstrong

The veteran editor speaks about the media's changing role and declining influence in both Australia and Southeast Asia.

08.04.2024 4

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End of an Era as the Phnom Penh Post Closes Its Doors

“With the advent of AI… we are in very scary, uncharted waters,” says co-founder Michael Hayes.

02.04.2024 3

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Editing Cambodian News: A Conversation With Alan Parkhouse

The veteran editor on winning awards, breaking news, and managing journalists.

26.03.2024 20

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Myanmar and the Voices of a Revolution

The Myanmar junta's conscription drive has backfired, bolstering the rebels' ranks.

25.03.2024 5

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Cabbages and Condoms: A Conversation With Mechai Viravaidya

How to save thousands of lives by preventing STDs.

12.03.2024 3

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A Papal Tour to Normalize Relations Between Vietnam and the Vatican

Both sides have promised not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs.

12.03.2024 5

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Watching Human Rights in Southeast Asia

A conversation with Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch ahead of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit.

29.02.2024 3

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Controversial Billionaire and Malaysian State Leader Is Laid to Rest

The Bruno Manser Fund wants Taib Mahmud's assets and bank accounts frozen.

26.02.2024 6

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War Crimes and the Meaning of Genocide

A conversation with war crimes lawyer Michael Karnavas.

16.02.2024 4

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Cambodia Looks to the Future By Luring Back Western Investors

The IMF sees significant downside risks as Cambodia slips on corruption index.

06.02.2024 5

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India Mulls an End to Myanmar Free Movement Border Zone

The development comes at a time that the junta is struggling with a forced recruitment campaign.

25.01.2024 10

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Cambodian PM Sacks City Mayor Amid Firings and Demotions

Diplomats posted to Phnom Penh expect the new leader's bureaucratic shake-out to continue.

15.01.2024 7

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AsiaLIFE and Publishing Hip Magazines in Vietnam

Jonny Edbrooke speaks about his various media ventures and the importance of being nice in Southeast Asia.

08.01.2024 2

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Remembering John MacDougall, an American Scholar of Indonesia

The anthropologist, who died last week at the age of 53, was a renowned scholar of all things Balinese.

02.01.2024 5

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Thai MPs Urge Talks with Cambodia Over Access to Preah Vihear

Cambodia has every right to stand its ground over a needless Little War

22.12.2023 10

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Human Rights and Protecting Cambodia’s Rainforests

Luke Hunt interviews Suwanna Gauntlett from the environmental group Wildlife Alliance.

21.12.2023 6

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Myanmar’s Bleak Economic Prospects Detailed in World Bank Report

Economy deteriorates further as fighting escalates, blocking trade routes with China and other neighboring countries.

19.12.2023 4

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Making Art and Finding an Edge in Cambodia

Luke Hunt interviews German filmmaker Nico Mesterharm about arts funding in Southeast Asia and his latest documentary.

11.12.2023 5

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John McBeth, Asia’s Longest Serving Foreign Correspondent, Dies at 79

McBeth was a standard bearer for big stories, honest and fair reportage.

07.12.2023 6

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Cambodian PM Hun Manet Poised for Bureaucratic Shake-up

The new government is facing Chinese pressure to weed out local tycoons involved with Chinese cyberscam syndicates.

01.12.2023 2

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World Music and Good Sports in Southeast Asia

Luke Hunt talks with Chris and Anya Minko about volleyball, wars, and Bachelors from Prague

27.11.2023 2

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One Dutchman and 350,000 Cambodian Refugees

A conversation with Hans van Zoggel.

17.11.2023 10

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A Cambodian-Born Australian Politician on Repression and Diaspora Politics

As a member of Parliament in the southeast Australian state of Victoria, Heang Tak ranks among the most prominent of the country’s Cambodian...

26.10.2023 2

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Five Cambodian Elections

Scottish-born Gordon Conochie, an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, has just released his book, “A Tiger Rules the...

17.10.2023 7

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Aboriginal Elder Urges Australians to Vote Yes and Without Guilt

Jill Gallagher is a senior elder from the Gunditjmara nation, a spokeswoman for the Aboriginal community in the southeast Australian state of Victoria...

10.10.2023 3

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SAC-M Report Accuses UN Secretary-General of Neglecting Myanmar

The United Nations and its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are delivering fewer results and neglecting their responsibilities to the Myanmar...

06.10.2023 3

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Could Cambodia’s New Prime Minister Release Theary Seng?

Theary Seng, a Khmer-American lawyer currently serving a six-year prison term for treason, has been transferred from a remote prison in northern...

03.10.2023 10

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Chinese Tourists Have Good Reasons Not to Return to Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia once ranked among the top tourist regions in the world, bolstering economies and employing millions, but a rot set in with the...

27.09.2023 2

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Surviving the Refugee Boats and Building a Vietnamese Museum in Australia

In 1979, Mylinh Lee arrived in Australia as a child, by boat and as a refugee. More than four decades later she is a public relations specialist in...

25.09.2023 1

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An Illustrious Photographer on Warzones and Hollywood

French photographer Roland Neveu has spent five decades covering Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. His work also took him from South...

18.09.2023 1

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