Alexi Demetriadi

Southeast Asia Globe • 23rd November 2020

Does CamboJA offer a glimmer of hope for press freedom in Cambodia?

‘Descent Into Outright Dictatorship’ read the front page headline of the final issue of the Cambodia Daily on September 4, 2017, as the newspaper succumbed to the pressure of a government harassment campaign.

Southeast Asia Globe • 9th November 2020

31 years since its fall, the Berlin Wall lives on in Jakarta

As the chisels of Berliners chipped away at the concrete divide severing their city, the first panels of the Berlin Wall began to tumble down on November 9, 1989.

Southeast Asia Globe • 3rd November 2020

Camus in Khmer: The publisher translating classic literature for Cambodia

Maman or Mother? When it comes to the correct translation of Albert Camus’ 1942 novel L’Étranger, the devil is in the details.

Southeast Asia Globe • 23rd October 2020

Stitch up: Power imbalances in global garment sector worsen in pandemic

As casino dealers know, the odds always favour the house – and in the case of the garment sector, the odds have always slanted heavily to the benefit of global brands over local suppliers and workers.

Southeast Asia Globe • 16th October 2020

'One of Cambodia's few success stories': Saving the Siamese croc from extinction

On September 11, in a lake in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province, 15 hatchlings of the critically endangered Siamese crocodile were discovered.

Southeast Asia Globe • 8th October 2020

New Naratif's PJ Thum speaks out against police harassment in Singapore

It’s been a challenging few weeks for Thum “PJ” Ping Tjin, to say the least.

Southeast Asia Globe • 2nd September 2020

Playing with pride: Meet Cambodia's oldest LGBT women’s football team

A documentary is in the works about a football team with a difference – the Kampong Chhnang Women’s Under-21s. The difference? The team were the first dedicated to girls of all sexual orientations, to win not just trophies but to change perceptions in the Kingdom.

Southeast Asia Globe • 25th August 2020

Myanmar's LGBTQ armed revolutionary continues fight two decades on

Former armed revolutionary and current human rights activist Aung Myo Min established Equality Myanmar 20 years ago last month.

Southeast Asia Globe • 19th August 2020

Witnessing tragedy: Journalist Jon Swain revisits 1970s Phnom Penh

“I’d never thought someone would adapt the book into a film,” award-winning British foreign correspondent Jon Swain told the Globe. “It’s a very thrilling experience – it’s a wonderful, positive and uplifting thing to happen.”

Southeast Asia Globe • 7th August 2020

The art of the brew: The story behind Cambodia’s first nanobrewery

Flowers Nanobrewery isn’t trying to break the Angkor monopoly on the Cambodian beer market, but the one-man, Japanese-run nanobrewery in Kampot is trying to preserve its distinct craft beer creations and identity.

Southeast Asia Globe • 31st July 2020

Onboard China’s Belt and Road Express: Does Laos stand to benefit?

The first piece of track on Kunming-Vientiane railway was laid in April as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Southeast Asia Globe • 23rd July 2020

As Uighur abuses condemned, Southeast Asia's silence is deafening

As fresh evidence of alleged rights abuses committed against the Uighur in China's Xinjiang province emerges, much of the world has called out Beijing for its treatment of the ethnic minority group.

Southeast Asia Globe • 17th July 2020

As the virus ravages Indonesia's economy, will the new capital be shelved?

As Covid-19 continues to rage through Indonesia, how will the faltering economy and the reallocation of funds towards virus relief impact the country's grand $33 billion plan to relocate its capital to East Kalimantan?

Southeast Asia Globe • 10th July 2020

Diving back in: Speaking to the Tham Luang cave rescue team two years on

In July 2018, the world's attention was gripped by the plight of 12 plucky young boys and their football coach trapped in a cave in Thailand.

Southeast Asia Globe • 6th July 2020

Dirty cash: The struggle to eradicate money laundering from Cambodia

Last week Cambodia introduced new laws to tackle money laundering following an EU ruling placing the country at “high-risk” for illicit cash flows.

Southeast Asia Globe • 2nd July 2020

Entry 2.5: Quarantine Matters with Alexi Demetriadi

As Globe reporter Alexi Demetriadi nears the end of his Phnom Penh quarantine experience, he touches base with Alexi Demetriadi in a no-holds-barred interview to hear about how its gone, and what travellers coming to Cambodia should know.

Southeast Asia Globe • 25th June 2020

Entry one: Down and Out in Sydney and Phnom Penh

Globe reporter Alexi is stuck in quarantine for two-weeks in the outskirts of Phnom Penh after his flight returned a positive case of Covid-19.

Southeast Asia Globe • 24th June 2020

Travel during the pandemic: Chicago/Sydney > Seoul > Phnom Penh

Globe staff members Andrew and Alexi made the trip back to Phnom Penh this week, in an aviation industry far different than before.

Southeast Asia Globe • 19th June 2020

Q&A: The tragic character arc of Aung San Suu Kyi

2011 biopic The Lady depicts an Aung San Suu Kyi fighting for democracy, painting a very different picture to the one we know today.

Southeast Asia Globe • 12th June 2020

In the furnace: Why is Cambodia's brick kiln child labour persisting?

Last year, the Cambodian government set out to put a permanent end to child labour in the country’s brick kilns by 2020.