As Asia’s Leading Education Expo, Learning & Teaching Expo (LTE) equips education professionals to keep pace with the global development of education. This year, LTE will take place again in Hong Kong from 12 to 14 December 2018, bringing together worldwide educators and school leaders to exchange ideas along latest educational trends and practices, as
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The entrepreneur aiming to create the Silicon Valley of SE Asia…in rural Cambodia
An ambitious Japanese entrepreneur is developing a master-planned community for 100,000 residents in a Cambodian forest three hours from the capital. His vision is off to an apparently strong start, with an eco-resort, a tech campus and free scholarships for Cambodian students. Will his 20-year plan become Southeast Asia’s answer to Silicon Valley?
Photos of the week
In pictures: Anwar Ibrahim campaigns, Myanmar journalists arrested, and Asean gathering
Malaysian Prime Minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim hits the campaign trail, journalists from Eleven Media group in Myanmar are arrested for an article criticising the Yangon Regional Government, and Asean leaders meet on the side of the annual IMF-World Bank meeting in Indonesia.
EBA agreement
Cambodia’s economy under fire from possible EBA loss, says industry expert
Industry insider Marco Kalinna, managing director of Cosmos Services, a garment trade supplier in Phnom Penh, and board member of the German Business Group in Cambodia, speaks with Southeast Asia Globe about the European Union’s review and possible retraction of its Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement with Cambodia
Asian film festival
Asian Horror: welcome to Singapore’s first horror movie festival
Singaporean filmmaker Eric Khoo, took time out to talk with Southeast Asia Globe about the genre and the lineup of scares for the event he founded, Scream Asia Film Festival 2018, which includes master classes with Indonesian director Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves) and South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan).
The Future of Energy
Wind power in Cambodia is possible, says regional power producer
As the world increasingly opens up to renewable energy, Southeast Asia Globe speaks to Olivier Duguet, CEO and co-founder of the Blue Circle, a renewable independent power producer based in Southeast Asia, to find out more about the region’s future energy path. The company has already begun work on a wind farm in Ninh Thuan
Traditional arts
Ombak Potehi: the Malaysian group reviving traditional Hokkien puppetry
In Malaysia, the Ombak Potehi group is giving traditional Hokkien puppet theatre a new lease on life
Capital punishment
Malaysia: ‘as it stands today, the decision is to abolish the death penalty’
Malaysia could see the abolishment of the death penalty within weeks, as officials announce plans for a new bill that will put an end to state-sanctioned executions
Quality of life
Why Vietnam ranks best in world for living greener and better
Vietnam performed the best of 151 countries in a study that assessed quality of life versus environmental sustainability. But researchers tell Southeast Asia Globe that, despite its achievements, the best-performing nation on the list still fails to meet the sustainability demands of an increasingly dire ecological outlook
Octagon Studio
How virtual technology can take learning to a new level
Indonesia’s Octagon Studio is driving innovations in virtual education with apps that allow users to learn by exploring and interacting with immersive environments
Academy of Culinary Arts
‘Training a new generation of skilled and passionate Cambodian chefs’
Southeast Asia Globe visits a Swiss-inspired culinary school in Cambodia’s capital that is training up young professionals to become tomorrow’s executive chefs and high-end restaurant managers
Photos of the week
In pictures: disaster strikes Sulawesi, Rosmah Mansur in court and jumping off skyscrapers
A massive earthquake and tsunami devastated central Sulawesi, in Indonesia. During the week Rosmah Mansur, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, arrived in court for various corruption-related charges. Meanwhile, daredevils leapt from skyscrapers more than 300m high in Kuala Lumpur