Joe Freeman

Joe Freeman is a Yangon-based journalist and an editor at Coconuts Media.

In Cambodia, monks get political after unpopular elections

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

A leading monk says rippling discontent about allegedly corrupt elections means “both the monks and the people are waking up now.”

Myanmar’s tense political purge plays out in Facebook posts

July 30, 2016Politics

Humans of New York, meet the Goats of Bangladesh

July 30, 2016Culture

3D printers are a surprising new weapon in the fight against landmines

July 30, 2016Conflict

You down with NLD? Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has a rap song

July 30, 2016Politics

Imagine if people in Congress shared a dorm. In Myanmar, they do

July 30, 2016Politics

It looks like a college dormitory. Or perhaps a minimum-security prison.

This Bangladeshi migrant is stirring up Singapore’s poetry scene

July 27, 2016Arts

An evocative collection of verse by Md Mukul Hossine, a Bangladeshi construction worker in Singapore, has turned the 25-year-old day laborer into an overnight literary celeb.

The new US ambassador in Myanmar dances around the country’s most sensitive word

May 11, 2016Global Politics

Myanmar has changed a lot in recent years — but not when it comes to the Rohingya.

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with supporters after giving a speech in Monywa November 30, 2012.

You down with NLD? Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has a rap song

October 26, 2015Culture

A group of musicians have banded together behind longtime political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The result is catchy.