So it’s with a heavy heart today that we must announce the suspension of publishing at Southeast Asia Globe, effective at the end of September. This is not a decision made lightly, nor as a reflection of the work of our staff, but rather the painful outcome of intensifying financial challenges unfortunately common to our industry.

We’ll touch on some of those in this letter. But first, we want to say these past 16 years have been a fantastic run.

We embarked on this journey in 2007 with the idea of bringing an international style publication to Cambodia, and we achieved our aim. From high quality stories and reporting on Southeast Asia and Cambodia showcasing world class photography and design, we made a commitment to turn out a premium, 100-page magazine every month. We maintained that commitment for 12 years without interruption, expanding to new markets and distributing the magazine in eight countries throughout the region by 2014.

With the rise of digital publishing and social media paired against the mounting costs of print and distributing magazines, we closed out the print version of Globe with our December 2018 edition. We then turned our attention to building the Globe you know today as a digital platform. From the start, we had embarked with a mission of sharing stories from around the region that promote a more informed, inclusive and sustainable future to a readership that cherishes well-written and designed articles. Looking back, we believe we’ve stayed true to those principles while honouring the standards we set at our founding.

Since moving the publication online, we’ve seen tremendous growth of our audience. Readers come to our website every month from more than 100 countries – something that would have been impossible to achieve in print. The shift to a digital-only publication model coincided with the launch of our membership programme and other services to boost revenue and fill the holes left by the loss of print-based advertising revenues. 

The building out of the subscription model and some of these other paid services, also coincided with the onset of the Covd-19 pandemic, presenting an important means of adapting to the new realities of the media market. But it also side-tracked us from focusing on the publication as we urgently worked to create new income and stay afloat. Upon reflection, this juncture was a critical moment in the Globe’s arc. 

Though we succeeded in diversifying the business side of our operations to create incomes that funded our journalism, this diversification also led to a larger team and increased costs. The shift diverted important resources away from nurturing the publication and, ultimately, growing the membership model. This most certainly was not the only factor leading to today’s announcement, but it was an important one along the way.

Beyond the challenges faced during the Covid-19 pandemic and the trajectory we set from its consequences, the current reality is that it has become increasingly difficult to pay competitive salaries, making it impossible to grow. We’re one of the few publications that has remained financially and editorially independent in a difficult market and challenging media environment. With that, we’ve never relied on big donors or large grants, instead focusing on the support of our readers through memberships while providing services to clients through our parent company, Globe Media Asia.

While ultimately we failed to make the Globe sustainable, this important fact has allowed us to keep our reporting both independent and uninfluenced.

We’re proud of this fact, but without some level of financing and readily available capital, the resources needed to secure the Globe as a sustainable venture are untenable, at least for now. The current economic outlook projects a situation where we continue to flounder and the entire organisation fails.  

Our accomplishments would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of this collective team

The decision to cut Globe was extremely difficult for us to make. We take some consolation in knowing that at any given moment in the past 16 years, we were passionate and proud of our work. We believe we’ve educated, enlightened, inspired and hopefully made a tangible impact through the stories we’ve shared. This is true mostly because we’ve worked with so many amazing people over the years, both as regular members of our staff but also as freelancers and contributors, friends and allies. 

Our accomplishments would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of this collective team. We want to thank each and every one of you out there and will be sharing a special post dedicated to you later this month.

Our collective body of work won’t be going away, and Globe will not be entirely shutting down. We will keep the website open and available – without a paywall – as we believe these stories have lasting value and meaning. For our paid subscribers, there should be no further charges made to your account. If you have any questions, please do get in touch with us by email or phone. 

Going through our archives, we hope you’ll find our reporting has helped to set the record on a time and place throughout the years. We’ll be re-sharing some of our favourite articles over the next few weeks and still have a number of exciting original pieces that we’ll be publishing throughout September. That includes more episodes of our Anakut podcast about Cambodia’s future, as well as dispatches from the country’s forests and increasingly closed political realm. 

Looking past the end of September, we’ll still be publishing new articles here and there, and will be investing some of our energies into relaunching our website focus-cambodia.com, where we plan to expand our coverage and take a more homed in and multimedia approach to covering Cambodia as it enters a new era. We’ll also be releasing a print version of Focus Cambodia magazine in early 2024. Finally, you can expect us to continue sharing updates through this newsletter, which we hope to build out as more of a micro-publication for our 50,000-plus subscribers. 

As for Globe, we hope this is not the end, but it’s certainly goodbye for now as we go back to the drawing board in search of a business model that works. We’ve learned a lot over the past few years and are open to any and all conversations with those who might be interested in working together or taking over the publication.

In the meantime, our inbox is open, so please feel free to drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you. And before we go, we’d like to say thank you again to all of our readers, partners and amazing teammates and colleagues from over the years. We could not have come this far without you.

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This week we have some exciting news. Our business magazine Focus Cambodia will be back in print next year. The new edition will combine the business and investment content the publication is known for with the culture and lifestyle features of Discover, our annual travel magazine. We’re starting to work with local business partners, so if you’d like to know more, ask away by sending us an email.

In the meantime, let’s dive right into the features. The Philippines are under the magnifying glass of the International Criminal Court as the organisation continues its probe into extrajudicial killings from 2011 to 2019 as part of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. While President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has disavowed the court, Filipino families are looking for justice.

Meanwhile over in Thailand, the populist Pheu Thai — the runner-up of the May elections — announced a split from the leading Move Forward Party in a sudden and controversial move sparking the anger of voters across the country. 

Though politics look very different in Vietnam, the recently concluded trial of dozens of defendants for corruption during the national Covid-19 response has possibly given some clues to the workings of the Communist Party. Experts shared with us their layered motivations behind the proceedings.

Last but not least, the Globe spoke with Aung Kyaw Moe, the first Rohingya representative to hold a ministerial position in the Myanmar government, about his journey from escaping persecution to becoming deputy human rights minister to the civilian National Unity Government (NUG).

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features below.

Latest

Overriding appeals, ICC to investigate Philippines drug-war killings

Globe‘s Beatrice Siviero

Thai politics drama unfolds as Pheu Thai ousts Move Forward from coalition

Globe‘s Ian Hollinger

Vietnam’s rapid ‘rescue flight’ trial stokes anti-corruption fervour

Globe‘s Coby Hobbs

Profile

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‘From victim to victor’: A Rohingya journey to Myanmar government

Globe‘s Beatrice Siviero

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Today it’s the last weekly newsletter of July and we are already looking forward to seeing what August has in store for us.

In the meantime, let’s dive right into the latest features. The week began with the foreseen victory of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) in Sunday’s general election. Just a couple of days later, Prime Minister Hun Sen, the country’s top leader for 38 years, announced he’d soon hand office to his eldest son, Hun Manet. 

Over nearly four decades of Hun Sen’s leadership, both the country and the region have been fast-urbanising. But the rapid development of urban areas has often led to overlooked pockets of poverty within the city landscape. Recent studies show how a holistic approach to improving informal settlements could increase the countries’ GDP by as much as 10.5%. 

Optimistic reports also come from the Asian Development Bank and economic experts who believe the region is fighting on amidst the rising cost of living and growing inflation. The region is also adapting its emergency response techniques to the escalation of global natural disasters, which especially affect the Asia and the Pacific region. 

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features below.

Latest

After 38 years, Cambodia PM Hun Sen to hand office to son

Globe‘s Andrew Haffner

As regional cities expand, urban poor risk being left behind

Globe‘s Beatrice Siviero

As global economy slows, SEA growth fights on

Globe‘s Amanda Oon

Opinion

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Amidst disasters, seizing the moment for a more resilient Asia-Pacific

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana

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Just two days after Cambodians cast their ballots in a general election dominated by his party and condemned by the West as neither free nor fair, the long-standing leader announced on state television that he would pass his office to his eldest son, Hun Manet, on 22 August.

Hun Sen will remain the head of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and will stay in the new government as president of the Senate, a posting he’ll take in February. 

“It is the country’s plan to maintain long-term stability – such stability and peace is the foundation of development,” the prime minister said in the nearly hour-long televised address. “It is an assurance that when a new generation takes power, the old generation stands beside him.”

The CPP has long managed to keep its inner workings opaque, and though rumours of rifts still occasionally swirl beyond its ranks, the party today generally presents a united public face. After Hun Sen publicly announced in December 2021 his wish to hand power to his son, within nearly a week top party leaders – along with authorities from officially nonpartisan institutions such as the judiciary and military – had rushed to endorse Manet as a future prime minister candidate, swallowing whatever ambitions or reservations they may have had. 

“I am the one who makes the biggest sacrifice.”

Prime Minister Hun Sen

From there, last weekend’s ballot represents not only the image of a people’s mandate for dynastic rule, but also a means of cementing a son’s inheritance – a system of near-total state power largely accountable only to itself and tightly consolidated around a single family and its patriarch. 

The breakdown of the party’s historic factions to make way for such a personalised model of rule has been decades in the making by its architect Hun Sen, an ex-soldier who backed his will to power with a battlefield view toward governance. 

Through years of careful brokering, the prime minister has knit a tightly woven ruling elite using a mix of patronage politics and outright violence waged on a scale both petty and grand. In the past five years alone, the prime minister has made dramatic gains in societal control after the Supreme Court, led by a top member of the CPP, ordered the dissolution of the popular opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) ahead of the previous national elections of 2018. That ruling gave way to the mass trials of former CNRP members and supporters for crimes ranging from incitement to treason.

After his son takes the top office, Hun Sen will undoubtedly keep an unwavering eye on the careful balance of interests that have made possible his vision of rule. Even with his father’s continued influence, Manet may find the weight of this amassed power to be a heavy burden to shoulder.

“I am the one who makes the biggest sacrifice,” Hun Sen told Chinese state media before the election. “Right now, I have an absolute power, but in about a month, I won’t have the power to sign any bills the same way as I do today.”

Over the past year, Manet, a military commander, has represented the state in various functions both domestically and abroad. Last week, he headlined the CPP’s closing rally of the official campaign period, speaking to party supporters before leading a massive motorcade through the capital Phnom Penh. 

Despite its nearly exclusive historic control of all state mechanisms, the ruling party still handled Sunday’s national election as a critical juncture of a larger generational turnover within the CPP characterised in large part by nepotistic power transfers. 

In May, the National Election Committee rejected the country’s most popular political opposition – the Candlelight Party, a reconstituted version of the CNRP – over an alleged paperwork issue. With no serious opposition, the ruling party declared a “landslide” victory, claiming 120 of the 125 seats in the National Assembly. An analysis of the candidate list by the media outlet CamboJA found that 22.4% of CPP candidates are familial relatives.

The remaining five seats will go to Funcinpec, a royalist party. The organisation has deep roots – it won Cambodia’s UN-administered election of 1993, defeating the CPP, but was later toppled in a brutal 1997 clash orchestrated by Hun Sen. 

That first modern election served as the capstone of the unprecedented scope of the UN Transitional Authority of Cambodia, which ostensibly provided a framework to end the country’s long-boiling conflict with a shift to liberal democracy. 

By the time the UN rolled in with more than 20,000 personnel and $1.6 billion in eventual spending, Hun Sen had already been prime minister of a single-party state since 1985. 

A former Khmer Rouge cadre who defected early to Vietnam, he’d returned home in the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that swiftly crushed the communist government of Democratic Kampuchea and established a new, socialist government. Hun Sen rose through the ranks in Phnom Penh under Vietnam’s decade-long occupation and, upon its military withdrawal, took over the fight against the remaining Khmer Rouge insurgency.

Before the elections of 1993, geopolitical wrangling had left his government unrecognised by the international community. Cambodia’s seat at the UN was filled by a representative of a tripartite government-in-exile that included royalists, the Khmer Rouge and anti-communist Khmer nationalists avowed to end the Vietnamese occupation. 

This unlikely alliance was led by the late King Norodom Sihanouk, a deeply influential figure of modern Cambodian history who lent his legitimacy to its cause.

The years of international isolation had already chafed Hun Sen. So by 1993, when the royalist victory at the polls threatened to sideline the embattled prime minister, he promptly forced a power-sharing agreement that all but undid the results of the ballot. Hun Sen and Funcinpec party leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of the former king, ruled as co-prime-ministers until the clash of 1997 put a decisive end to that.

In a recollection of the 1997 conflict published after its 10-year-anniversary, former UN rights worker Brad Adams described the short-lived fighting between the armed wings of the CPP and Funcinpec. 

“Even without the support of much of his party, Hun Sen was able to put together enough military power to succeed,” wrote Adams, who was by then the Asia director of Human Rights Watch. “He then unleashed his forces to carry out a campaign of extrajudicial executions, primarily of FUNCINPEC military officers. I and many of my colleagues at the UN human rights office had the unforgettable experience of digging up the bodies of men stripped naked to their underwear, handcuffed behind their backs, blindfolded, and shot in the head.”

To the victor go the spoils.”

Brad Adams, former Human Rights Watch Asia director

Speaking to the Globe shortly before the election, Adams believed the 1997 conflict was the key turning point for the eventual consolidation of Hun Sen’s power over both party and country. Though rival factions within the CPP may have once posed a real threat to his leadership, his triumph over Funcinpec and his co-prime-minister Ranariddh – who died in 2021, passing Funcinpec’s leadership to his own son, Prince Norodom Chakravuth – secured his status at the top.

“To the victor go the spoils,” Adams said. “He basically took control of the police, the military and the gendarmerie after the coup, and he hasn’t looked back.”

Though armed conflict akin to that in 1997 has yet to resurface in Cambodia, a steady current of unresolved street attacks on opposition members ahead of this year’s election managed to keep the old militaristic spirit alive. Still, in comparison with Funcinpec’s earlier beheading and the legalistic blitzkrieg unleashed against the CNRP, this year’s rejection of Candlelight was practically hushed.

“There’s never been a time when there haven’t been laws in the books that could be used this way, so the lawfare succeeded there as a result of years and years of violence and intimidation,” Adams said. “People have made a calculation this time around that the cost-benefit of publicly opposing this is not great because there’s almost no chance of a benefit.”

Within this mathematics of power, Manet is an untested variable. In a political system where blood ties are the ultimate bond, it remains to be seen exactly how much of his father’s legacy he will inherit.

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Today marks the last day of Cambodia’s election campaign, which meant rallies of thousands organised by the ruling Cambodia’s People Party (CPP) motored through Phnom Penh.

But many young Cambodians are concerned about the lack of fair competition in a system long dominated by Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party. After election officials forbade the main opposition Candlelight Party to run due to a paperwork requirement, only a scattering of minor opposition parties are left to compete with the CPP. 

Just over the border, Thailand has yet to select its next prime minister after the opposition Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat was ruled out for the second time in a row. Citizens have been mobilising and gearing up in nationwide protests.

This week, the Globe also published the Khmer version of Govi Snell and Anton L. Delgado’s feature on farmers clashing with the few remaining wild elephants in Vietnam, causing major concerns among environmentalists. 

Conservationists across the region are also worried about the growing threats of illegal wildlife trade and deforestation in the Annamite mountains, where newly discovered species are already heading towards extinction. 

Lastly for the stories, six decades after Singapore’s failed prison experiment that resulted in a deadly riot, film director Tom St. John Gray spoke in an interview about the process of uncovering the truth behind this riot and sharing it in a CNA documentary titled “Riot Island.”

Finally, for some Globe news, today’s newsletter marks four years of Sightlines. For long-time readers, thanks for following — for newcomers, welcome aboard! We’ve been publishing deep-dives from around the region since 2007 and hope to do so for much, much longer yet. Hit this link if you’d like to subscribe and join our mission!

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features below.

Latest

With motorcade, Cambodia’s ruling party marks expected election victory

Globe‘s Anton L. Delgado

After rejected PM bid, Thailand readies for mass protests

Globe‘s Ian Hollinger

“Not fair”: Cambodian youths yearn for competition in election

Globe‘s Beatrice Siviero

Before elections, Cambodia blocks database of public information

Globe‘s Anton L. Delgado

Environment

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In the Annamites, newly discovered species edge toward extinction

Globe’s Coby Hobbs

ប្រឈមជាមួយនឹងការអភិវឌ្ឍ ហ្វូងដំរីចុងក្រោយរបស់វៀតណាមខិតទៅរកភាពគ្រោះថ្នាក់

Globe‘s Govi Snell and Anton L. Delgado

Interviews

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Behind ‘Riot Island’: Filmmaker talks Singapore prison documentary

Globe‘s Amanda Oon

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This week, the world has its eyes on Thailand as the resignation of former Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and the challenges around the selection of his successor leaves the public on pins and needles. 

On 13 July, a parliamentary debate resulted in the rejection of opposition Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat as the new prime minister. Although expected, the vote sparked widespread protests across the country. The Thai parliament will gather to cast their next vote for prime minister on 19 July.

While Thai citizens await the final decision, government institutions are facing an increased number of cyber infiltrations as groups of hackers target the region to steal key military information. Some experts believe the attacks, sourced to entities known as either Dark Pink or Ocean Buffalo, originated in Vietnam, but only an international investigation into the crimes will reveal the truth. 

Vietnam has recently been facing another threat. The country’s few remaining wild elephants have been clashing with local farmers over food and land, leading to often-fatal interactions for the endangered giants. With only about 100 remaining across the entire country, they’re on the brink of a population spiral. 

Last but not least, this week the Globe spoke with survivors of Singapore’s failed prison experiment that resulted in a deadly riot six decades ago nearly to the day. The chaos on Pulau Senang happened on the cusp of Singapore’s independence and faded from public memory, but a recent documentary dredged up the alleged abuse and corruption that undermined the project and led to its collapse.

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features!

Latest

‘Riot Island’: The brutal arc of Singapore’s prison experiment

Globe‘s Amanda Oon

‘I accept it but I’m not giving up’: Thai opposition leader loses PM bid

 Globe‘s Ian Hollinger

The hard road to government for Thailand’s Move Forward Party

 Globe‘s Ian Hollinger

Environment

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Clashing with humans, Vietnam’s last wild elephants are running out of time

Globe‘s Govi Snell and Anton L. Delgado

Cybercrime

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Dark Pink and Ocean Buffalo: Hacker groups pushing cyber-espionage in SEA

Globe‘s Beatrice Siviero

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Happy Friday, everyone. Don’t miss the last few hours of our mid-year sale, where you can get an annual membership for only half the price and gain access to all of our stories. A huge thank you from us all in advance. 

This week, our features covered major trends in energy transition projects in Southeast Asia. In his first piece for the Globe, Coby Hobbs wrote about the challenges faced by the $30-billion Just Energy Transition Project (JETP) in supporting renewable energy infrastructure development in Vietnam and Indonesia.

In the meantime, the E.U.’s Regulation on deforestation-free products, which entered into force on 29 June, forbids the import of goods into Europe that originated from land cleared since 31 December, 2020. Malaysia and Indonesia, two of the E.U.’s major trade partners, sent a mission to Brussels arguing the legislation discriminated against their palm-oil-dependent economies and would harm their agricultural sectors.

As deserted lands cause environmental concerns, deserted streets could be equally dangerous for their human population. Urbanist Jane Jacobs popularised the concept of the lively street as an instrument of public safety in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. She stressed the idea that a lively street is one that has people who watch over it.

Last but not least, two Indonesian human rights advocates are now fighting defamation charges over a podcast aired almost two years ago. The incriminating episode was about a report claiming military involvement in West Papua was designed to protect mining interests in the area and the alleged conflict of interest of a government official as a shareholder of a mining company in Papua. 

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features!

Latest

A $30 billion pledge for Vietnam and Indonesia shows pitfalls of climate finance

Globe‘s Coby Hobbs

Prosecuted for a podcast, Indonesian rights advocates on trial for ‘online defamation’

 Leila Goldstein

Opinions

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Opinion: E.U. is tilting at windmills with new Deforestation Regulation

Robert Hii

For urbanists, safe streets are lively streets

Prak Norak

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Happy Friday, everyone. This year’s Pride month has just come to an end. And to celebrate it, the Globe spoke to Lao LGBT+ rights advocate Anan Bouapha about progress in the country over the past decade.

With the end of the month also comes your last chance to take advantage of our mid-year sale, where you can get an annual membership for only half the price and gain access to all of our stories. We’re an independent publication and your support allows us to continue our work, so a huge thank you from us all in advance. 

June seemed to be a very eventful month. Its last days also marked the first anniversary of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s presidency of the Philippines. However, speaking of rights, this past year under his rule wasn’t as fruitful as hoped for by some during the 2022 election campaign. Marcos Jr. had promised to take a new approach to the ‘war on drugs’ that cost the lives of thousands of Filipinos between 2016 and 2022 under the Duterte regime, but no concrete steps have reportedly been taken since then.

On a lighter note, this week we wrote about how radio stations across Southeast Asia are giving voice to local youths to reach out to their peers. Community radio is “by the people and for the people”, with volunteer stations using a ‘do-it-yourself’ approach to share their art while learning from each another.

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features!

Latest

Philippines drugs crackdown continues as Marcos Jr. marks first anniversary

Chris Fitzgerald

A new spin on an old medium: Community radio finds a new generation

Globe‘s Molly Dunlap

Interviews

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Laos in rainbows: Organiser charts gradual progress for LGBT+ rights

Globe‘s Beatrice Siviero

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First and foremost, happy Philippines’ Independence Day to all our Filipino friends. On 12 June, the Philippines commemorated its 125th year since the declaration of independence from Spain. 

Before diving into the features, a quick reminder to you all about our mid-year deal. You have 14 more days to sign up for our annual membership for just half the price and get access to our stories. Make sure you don’t miss it! We’re an independent publication and your support is our strongest pillar, so a huge thank you from us all in advance.

This week, the Globe spoke with the climate chief of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and former U.K. Energy Minister Claire Perry O’Neill about environmentally friendly and profitable solutions to cut carbon emissions in Singapore. 

In the meantime, as Singapore works on air pollution, in Cambodia experts are attempting to save the world’s largest freshwater fish in the Mekong River. The Globe also spoke with National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan about the tagging and releasing process to track critically-endangered fish.

That’s all for today, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features!

Latest

For big business, a puzzle: How to cut carbon while keeping profits

Globe’s Amanda Oon

Interviews

Swimming with ‘monsters’: Behind the search for the world’s largest freshwater fish

Globe’s Anton L. Delgado

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Another week came to an end and I hope that it was a good one for everybody. Before diving into the features, I’d like to remind you about our special mid-year deal. From 1 June to 1 July, you can subscribe to our annual membership for just half the price and get access to our stories. We’re an independent publication and your support is our strongest pillar, so a huge thank you from us all in advance.

Now, to the features. I should mention that we spent much of this week working on some longer-term reporting projects that you should be seeing in the coming weeks and months. As such, we ended up a little light for dailies — next week you’ll be receiving a much fuller roster. But in our latest, the Globe spoke with publisher Suridh “Shaz” Das-Hassan from Soi Books about their upcoming journal Plaza, which features street photography from around the region. There are some great photos in this one from Southeast Asian photographers documenting their societies, so check it out.

In the meantime, the extreme heat in the region hasn’t gotten any better. To mark World Environment Day this week, we featured an analysis by economist Vinod Thomas, a former director general of the Asia Development Bank. Thomas has recently authored a book titled Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change and shared some insights with us about the urgent need for stronger climate mitigation strategies for the region.

That’s all for this week, may you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the features!

Latest

As climate risk grows, resilience must match new highs

Vinod Thomas

Interviews

A new lens on Southeast Asian street photography

Globe’s Molly Dunlap

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