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After junket crackdown in Macau, SEA casinos target Chinese gamblers

Oct 29, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Coby Hobbs

The quiet transfer of a major casino in Vietnam from the former company of an imprisoned gambling tour kingpin to a billionaire Hong Kong family suggests China’s massive gaming industry still sees potential in Southeast Asia. Driven by Chinese government crackdowns from the casino enclave of Macau, some organisers of VIP gambling tours – known as junkets – appear to be enduring the storm while also transferring business elsewhere in their regional networks.
Inside Cambodia's REDD+ boom

Oct 20, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Andrew Haffner

When the Cambodian rainy season turns dirt roads into rutted mud, the villages tucked into rugged folds of the western Cardamom Mountains can feel far from just about everything. In the Areng Valley, a river-carved flatland in the range sparsely populated by villages of indigenous Chorng people, that includes any semblance of cellular reception. This means it’s usually best to meet in-person with Reem Souvsee, the deputy chief of the valley’s Chomnoab commune.
Anakut podcast finale: Forging Cambodia's creative renaissance

Oct 16, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Coby Hobbs

This time around, we’re setting our sights on the bustling Phnom Penh, and its multifaceted creatives who are driving a new cultural consciousness for the Kingdom. With a population exceeding 2.2 million, the city stands as the nation’s largest hub. It draws people from every corner of the country, whether for work, leisure, access to essential services, or for artistic exploration.
As looted relics return, Cambodian researchers uncover history

Sep 29, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Leila Goldstein

Additional reporting and photography by Anton L. Delgado. On an unbearably hot day in April, Kong Mok pantomimed wrapping a material around his neck with one hand. Mok, 67, was on duty as a guard at the ancient Koh Ker temple complex in northern Cambodia, which was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List earlier this month.
Five heads,10,000 pieces: Restoring the dancing Shiva

Sep 28, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Leila Goldstein

Additional reporting and photography by Anton L. Delgado. Hundreds of headless deities sit in rows in a warehouse in Siem Reap, lit by buzzing fluorescent lights and a rim of small windows. The largest statue, nearly five metres tall, looks down at the rest. Or, rather, it would look down if it still had its head. Five heads, in this case.
Love, war and the Free Burma Rangers

Sep 26, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Coby Hobbs

David Eubank will accept your call, but there might be missiles disrupting the connection. Eubank, 61, is the founder and leader of the Free Burma Rangers, an eclectic band of former U.S. Marines seeking new purpose, Myanmar ethnic minorities and rebels with a cause. Since 1996, the nonprofit group has gradually built a following throughout Myanmar with backing from local leaders, documenting war crimes carried out by the national military while distributing humanitarian aid.
In Vietnam, a controversial planned execution strains death penalty

Sep 8, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Beatrice Siviero

Dead or alive, in the case of Nguyen Van Chuong it’s anyone’s guess. Fifteen years after Nguyen was sentenced to death in the northern Vietnamese port city of Hai Phong, his family still doesn’t know when he’ll be injected with deadly poison – or even if it’s already happened.
New novel explores Charlie Chaplin’s midlife crisis in French Indochina

Aug 23, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Beatrice Siviero

No electricity, just a few books and a massive river crossing. Rural villages were what first-time author Ian Masters, 49, grew up with and what gave him scope for imagination throughout his life as a British youth in a faraway land. As a child, Masters spent long hours just looking at the river near his parents’ house in former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, wondering where people and their stories came from.
'Charlot' by Ian Masters

Aug 23, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Beatrice Siviero

On the other side of the European Quarter, Charlie was blissfully oblivious to Levalier’s interest in his wife, and Paulette’s half- hearted attempt to deflect it. His mind was consumed with his new friend and his stories of colonial excess and exploitation. He listened intently in the rickshaw as Phirath pointed out this building and that canal, each new landmark given a political slant or a cultural resonance.
A 100-day checklist for the new Cambodian prime minister to turn human wrongs into human right

Aug 22, 2023 | southeastasiaglobe.com | Beatrice Siviero

On 23 July, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) secured 96% of National Assembly seats in a landslide electoral victory, further cementing its grip on power ahead of a planned transfer of the premiership from Hun Sen to his son, Hun Manet. These results hardly came as a surprise. They were made possible by the systematic crackdown on opposition groups, independent journalists, and fundamental freedoms the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has been conducting since 2017.