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What Myanmar has to do with Gaza, why we need to care about Myanmar, and a Palestinian story
Myanmar and the occupied Palestinian territory, which Gaza is part of, stand close to each other at the top of the lists of crises in 2024.
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Quake jitters in Bangkok, another crisis for Myanmar and the Duterte-ICC issue in hyper-political Philippines
When friends ask about last week’s earthquake, I say that it was strong and loooong enough to make a Filipino like me - far from unfamiliar with…
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How Gaza isn't far from Southeast Asia, who's shopping for arms and our elected autocracies
A lot of donations for Gazans have been coming from Singapore.
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Bombs of rain, anger at a time of extreme weather disasters - ahead of another UN climate summit
Our two stories in this issue explore creative ways of widening the conversation around the climate crisis – one about board games that provide spaces…
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Too hot (enough to cook an egg out on the street), too wet - in a planet facing an 'extreme heat epidemic'
“Is that for real?” I messaged a Vietnamese journalist in my Facebook list in May, after seeing her reel that showed an egg being cooked in a frying pan…
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'Brutal' heat wave sears Southeast Asia, Earth overload, and bad air days
“So, are you fried, toasted, baked or steamed?” I joked with a friend recently, as we tried to make light of the suffocating, sweltering heat wave that…
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Looking for the climate in Southeast Asia's newsrooms
Climate issues are everywhere - but where are they in Southeast Asia’s newsrooms?
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Clouds of war at yearend, the hottest year so far - and how going local makes a difference
At an overseas trip in December, “the children, the children who are being killed!” was the almost universal remark by people when our conversation made…
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Myanmar Journalists And Online Hostility, Reporting On A Stressed Planet and Siargao, A Year After
26 DECEMBER 2022
Climate Connections: Heat Worries in Cambodia, the Philippines' Plastic Crisis, New Old Food Estates in Indonesia
Our stories below range from the extreme heat in Cambodia (summer's not too far away for Southeast Asia), the latest version of Indonesia’s…
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Myanmar Gets Less Interest than Ukraine, Southeast Asia's Power Equation and Its Worries
February is the anniversary of the Myanmar military coup of 1 February 2021, as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which started on 24 February…
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An overheated time (for the planet and in politics), how China can make its dams more Mekong-friendly, and keeping Myanmar's exiled kids in…
It's been hot - in more ways than one.
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