Producer: Michael Tatarski Producer: Thum Ping Tjin Producer: JJ Rose Producer: Kirsten Han

Southeast Asia Dispatches is a fortnightly podcast bringing you reports, interviews and perspectives from New Naratif’s network around Southeast Asia.

This week, Kirsten Han invites us to lunch with Singapore’s Old Left (00:52), Mike Tatarski looks at the effects of Vietnam’s booming tourism industry (09:31), PJ Thum talks to Cambodian feminist Eng Chandy (15:47), and James Rose reflects upon efforts to clean up Thailand’s fishing industry (25:17).

JJ Rose is an Australian writer and audio producer.

Michael Tatarski is a journalist based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He focuses on the environment, urban development and social issues. Find him on Twitter @miketatarski.

Thum Ping Tjin (“PJ”) is Managing Director of New Naratif and a historian at the University of Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar, Commonwealth Scholar, Olympic athlete, and the only Singaporean to swim the English Channel, his work centres on Southeast Asian governance and politics. His most recent work is Living with Myths in Singapore (Ethos: 2017, co-edited with Loh Kah Seng and Jack Chia). Reach him at pingtjin.thum@newnaratif.com.

Kirsten Han is a Singaporean journalist whose work often revolves around the themes of social justice, human rights, politics and democracy. As an activist, Kirsten has advocated for an end to the death penalty in Singapore, and is a member of the Transformative Justice Collective.