Young people increasingly define success as internal fulfilment, not external gains. In Asia, Cambodian rapper VannDa is the new voice for Cambodia’s new generation, elevating Cambodian music into something that can compete with music around the world.ĭefinitions of success are turning inwards The new musical diaspora is driven by untold stories – artists like Bad Bunny and Burna Boy have taken over the global airwaves, transcending niche subgenres into superstardom. This loud and proud voice amongst Asian youth is manifesting itself in fresh new ways in music. Less than a quarter (23%) say their identity is derived through the brands they buy and just 16 percent said celebrities were influential when it comes to identity expression. More than six in ten (63%) Asian youths say they express their identity through thoughts and opinions, 43 percent by their appearance and 37 percent by the people they are surrounded by. The rise of an unapologetic assertion of modern Asian identity The report connects cultural shifts across gaming, music and finance, with emerging youth sentiment across a total of 6,218 15 to 41-year-olds in South Korea, Indonesia and India, to imagine the way forward for brands to evolve and future proof themselves in the region.
CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.There is a new wave of young people across APAC turning away from traditional markers of identity and success, empowered by their personal abilities, creativity and curiosity to drive progress and change across the region, as revealed in the latest State Of Youth Report from VICE Media Group. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account CNN’s Helen Regan contributed to this report. In 2018, almost four decades after the collapse of the brutal regime, a UN-backed tribunal ruled that the Khmer Rouge had committed genocide. There is now a new petition by the same group demanding an apology to the Cambodian community.Īt least 1.7 million people - nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population - died from execution, disease, starvation and forced labor under the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled the country between 1975-1979. On Monday, they noted that while the story had since been retracted, “there has been no apology from either Vice or Mr. Campaigners called on Loughrey to “please stop using photos of Cambodian genocide victims for your experimentation and entertainment.” By Monday, it had gathered more than 7,000 signatures. Over the weekend, a petition was circulated online, demanding that Vice take the article down. Scars of the Khmer Rouge: How Cambodia is healing from a genocide (Photo credit should read CLAUDE JUVENAL/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images Loughrey did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Ī woman cries next to a dead body, 17 April 1975 in Phnom Penh, after the Khmer Rouge enter the Cambodian capital and establish government of Democratic Kampuchea (DK). The minister is now calling on the artist “to immediately stop spreading these horrific images and specifically to take them off his website and out of public view.” The distorted photographs have needlessly once again traumatized the families and our nation.” However, in this case, the artist has clearly desecrated the memories of the dead and robbed the victims of the Khmer Rouge of their dignity. “We understand and respect artistic freedom. “The alteration of these photographs shows an utter insensitivity for the people who died, the families who have had to continue on without their loved ones, and historical truth itself,” Phoeurng Sackona, Cambodia’s minister of culture and fine arts, said in a statement to CNN Business on Monday. Khmer Rouge executioner 'Comrade Duch' who oversaw notorious torture prison dies age 77ĭespite the retraction, Cambodian authorities have strongly objected to the use of the images, after a government review found that several photographs were changed to add smiles. Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, sits in the courtroom in Phnom Penh Friday.
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