Restoration of health and wellbeing requires a strong condemnation of the junta for the appalling violations of basic human dignity that they have committed and continue to perpetrate, of which the weaponization of health is only one tragic and inexcusable example.
This month, we are getting back into the swing of events. We continue to pay close attention to the evolving situation in Myanmar with a renewed series of #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Bi-Weekly Updates.
Having lived in Cambodia for the past 13 years, enamored with the country’s history and its people, I wanted to look at the history of relations between Cambodia and the Philippines, exploring the “ties that bind”, and discovering little bits of trivia here and there.
Chaktomuk Short Film Festival will launch its online screening of short films on 23rd October 2021 on its official Facebook page.
Cambodian cyclo’s popularity has declined and the livelihoods of three-wheel bicycle taxi drivers have been threatened, especially during COVID-19. Without tourist customers, they have earned much less than usual. To highlight their plight, artists have retold the drivers’ story through rap music along with Lakhon Khol traditional dance.
As SEA Junction is in its 6th year of operation and our activities expand, there is a need to add an office staff who is able to work in a flexible manner in a small office with a multicultural environment and a variety of needs.
INFORMAL workers dominate the region’s labour market in both urban and rural areas. More than half of the workforce in most South-East Asian countries earn their living in the informal sector, with the proportion surpassing 80% in Cambodia and Myanmar
Baryo Balangaw Creative Initiatives hopes to address the need for supplemental creative livelihoods in the women farming community amid surge in stress during pandemic. Its empowering project resulted in stress relief and newfound skills which generate supplemental income for women farmers.
Around the region, informal workers are organizing and taking action to support each other during the crisis, all the while working to ensure a more just and protected future.
The library collection of SEA Junction consists of about 4,000 books on the various countries of Southeast Asia. While a large portion of the books has been catalogued, there is a need to review the system and the entries (both in xl and in the e-library)
