Lindsey Kennedy
Journalist, Editor, Video Producer
I write / shoot pieces about tech, development, social & political issues, entrepreneurship, arts & culture, and travel. A veritable smorgasbord of news. Contact me at lindsey@teponui.com
PROJECTS
Quartz
China created a new terrorist threat by repressing secessionist fervor in its western frontier
In the early hours of New Year’s Day in 2017, a heavily armed gunman stormed Reina, an exclusive Istanbul nightclub on the Bosphorus coast, murdering 39. ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre, but the Turkish deputy prime minister swiftly made an incendiary claim: the perpetrators, he said, were “probably” Uyghur.
The Guardian
Struggle and freedom: the Vietnamese archive that celebrates a secret LGBT culture
For six years Dinh Nhung has been collecting the memories of a community, derided by colonialists and communists, and only now coming out of the shadows.
Quartz
Who would want to build a tech startup in occupied territory? Meet the optimists of Palestine
“I think starting a business here is in itself a political act,” says Christina Ganim.
In 2015, Ganim co-founded the Ramallah-based lingerie company, Kenz Woman, with Nicola Isabel. “We could both be in the States or anywhere else doing this, but we chose to do it here, because we want to contribute.”
whatsonphnompenh.com
Cambodia’s First Ever Opera is Going to be Magic
Did you know that no opera has ever been performed in Cambodia. Not one! Not even under the French! How very remiss of them. Well, that’s all about to change with this fabulous reimagining of Mozart’s Magic Flute
whatsonphnompenh.com
Interview: Gina Yashere on Cracking America
Gina Yashere is trying to be healthy. We’re having lunch at Vibe in Tuol Tom Poung, a Melbourne-style vegan restaurant that lists ingredients like activated almonds and quinoa porridge on the menu, and she’s just finished a 10-day fast in Thailand, where she survived on juice, coconut water, and coffee and garlic enemas.
howwegettonext.com
$75 to Walk Again: Tackling Asia’s Prosthetics Crisis
Of the 260 million cluster bombs dropped on Laos’s three million people, nearly a third failed to explode. Four decades later, most lay where they fell, claiming hundreds of lives and limbs each year in a country where the GDP per capita is just USD $1,660 — a fraction of the cost of Western-made prostheses.
whatsonphnompenh.com
Meet Vartey Ganiva, Cambodia’s Queen of Punk
Cambodia’s first female punk singer might look sweeter than coconut rice pudding, but you do not want to get on her bad side.
The Guardian
More goals than fans: Syria's uphill struggle to rally nation behind football team
As Syrian national football team focuses on qualifying for 2018 World Cup, captain says playing for country means ‘hoping it will get back to the way it was’
whatsonphnompenh.com
A Bold Beauty: Rising Star Neak Sophal’s Flower-Infused Photography
In a new exhibition at Java Arts, conceptual photographer Neak Sophal challenges conceptions of femininity and conventional beauty.
howwegettonext.com
These Indonesian Women Are Part of the Design Team for Their Own Development Tech
At a tech fair in Lembata, a volcano-sprinkled island near the eastern tip of Flores, Indonesia, 62-year-old subsistence farmer Daprosa and her friends Maria (54 years old) and Yuliana (also 54 years old) are checking out a water filter.
whatsonphnompenh.com
Davy Chou on his Award-Winning Film, Diamond Island
Director Davy Chou brings his critically acclaimed feature film Diamond Island to META HOUSE for a special screening and Q&A.
whatsonphnompenh.com
Don’t Miss: Mayda Miller @ The Jazz Club
Mayda Miller’s background isn’t the most obvious for an up and coming R&B star. Korean by birth but American by adoption, she grew up in “very white, very not funky” Minnesota, dividing her time between classical piano and playing on tractors with cousins in Virginia.
whatsonphnompenh.com
Don’t Miss: A Bend in the River
Acclaimed choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro returns to Phnom Penh with a gorgeous and poignant re-imagining of a classic Khmer folk tale.
whatsonphnompenh.com
People in the City: Lives Behind Closed Doors in the Capital
A new exhibition of photographs by Astrid Schulz is now showing at META HOUSE, painting a poignant picture of private lives in Phnom Penh.
smeinsider.com
How to build a £multi-million global business from scratch
“Don’t be afraid just because you’re a one man band in an office,” says Lara Morgan, the entrepreneur (and force of nature) who started her hotel supplies business with no funding and sold it for £20m. “Actually, that’s bollocks. Let’s be honest: your bedroom.”