Chris White

Ship-breaking workers are often desperate for work no others will do, even if wages are slightly higher than the average sweatshop job. Photo: Studio Fasching

Health & Environment

Two years since Gadani disaster, why are Asians still dying?

28 Oct 2018 - 8:49am 1

As street food vendors across most of Asia face an unappetising future, Singapore’s hawkers are winning Michelin stars and being put forward for Unesco recognition. That must be one super secret ingredient ...

Lifestyle & Culture

What makes street food clutter in Thailand, heritage in Singapore?

10 Sep 2018 - 11:29am 11

Taking the lead from their US counterparts, the truckers of Singapore, Japan and South Korea are taking a middle road between high-end restaurants and cheap street vendors

Lifestyle & Culture

What’s driving the rise of the Asian food truck industry?

8 Sep 2018 - 9:21am 2

As the prime minister’s rigged election seems sure to extend his 33-year reign, Cambodians despair the onset of one-party rule

Politics

Cambodians go to the polls: it’s Hun Sen versus voter turnout

29 Jul 2018 - 3:33pm 12

US immigrant Ted Ngoy built a dynasty of flour and sugar that changed the fate of hundreds of his fellow countrymen seeking a better life. A sudden addiction took it all away, but it left him all the wiser decades later

Society

Cambodian ‘Donut King’ who came full circle

23 Jun 2018 - 11:50am 5

Seoul’s Teach North Korean Refugees has taught 350 escapees language skills and supported them with jobs, scholarships and college placements

Geopolitics

The English school giving North Korean defectors a voice

10 Jun 2018 - 10:15pm

Industry figures say the garment factory trade has turned a corner. But even if safety has improved, wages are another matter

Economics

Are Asia’s sweatshops a thing of the past?

22 Apr 2018 - 10:00am

Promoted as the answer to the ills of modern-day living in Seoul, the development is overdue, overpriced and underpopulated. ‘A Chernobyl-like emptiness’, as one critic puts it

Economics

South Korea’s ‘Smart City’: not quite smart enough?

25 Mar 2018 - 3:43pm