Archive: Jun 2019



STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 28, 2019 • 15 min read

Plastic waste The waste land

By Evie Breese and Thim Rachna • Jun 28, 2019
Southeast Asia is racing to follow China's ban on plastic waste imports. And with Cambodia now forced to clean up its own mess, the Kingdom has a chance to turn piles of plastic trash into treasure

STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 27, 2019 • 15 min read

Analysis Debt traps

By David Hutt • Jun 27, 2019
Cambodians are sinking deep in debt to meet their basic needs. And with the Kingdom's financial sector so reliant on foreign investment, it won't take much for the house of cards to come crashing down

STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 26, 2019 • 5 min read

Cambodian business leaders ‘I climbed the ladder to be here today’

By Robin Spiess • Jun 26, 2019
Around the globe, women face persistently low representation in the highest levels of business leadership – and the number of females leading the world’s largest companies has actually been on the decline in recent years. In celebration of this International Women’s Day, Southeast Asia Globe sat down with Cham Krasna, the CEO of Cambodian company Soma Group, to discuss challenges and successes encountered during her first year working as the company’s first female CEO, as well as her vision for the future of Soma Group

STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 26, 2019 • 19 min read

Illegal wildlife trade Prescription for extinction

By Claire Baker-Munton • Jun 26, 2019
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But scientists say demand for medicine containing animal parts could push tigers, bears, rhinos and pangolins to the brink of extinction

Jun 25, 2019 • 12 min read
Land rights

Cambodia for sale

From our print archive: In the 18 months leading up to 2008, almost half of Cambodia had been leased to foreign speculators – and many who fled the Khmer Rouge are homeless once more
By Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy and Peter Harris • Jun 25, 2019

FROM THE PRINT ARCHIVE
Jun 24, 2019 • 2 min read
Editorial

Things fall apart.

Sooner or later, the past always catches up with you. This week we’re looking at the world’s growing garment waste crisis, how BRI’s appetite for traditional Chinese medicine is putting the region’s animals at risk, Cambodia’s domestic debt traps and more.
By Paul Millar • Jun 24, 2019

Jun 24, 2019 • 13 min read
Garment waste

Out of fashion

Enough clothes have already been made to outfit everyone on the planet. But with rampant overproduction leaving more and more fabric waste in landfill, it's time to find a solution
By Amanda Kaufmann • Jun 24, 2019

Jun 21, 2019 • 12 min read
Rohingya crisis

No justice in Rakhine

As the Rohingya humanitarian crisis rages on in Myanmar, new reports shed light on the UN's failures in the country and the continued unlikelihood of repatriation
By Robin Spiess • Jun 21, 2019

Jun 20, 2019 • 11 min read
Hun Sen vs Sam Rainsy

The strongman and the strawman

Exiled opposition politician Sam Rainsy has once again pledged to come back to Cambodia. But for a government eager to imagine itself as under assault on all sides, he’s far more useful to Hun Sen in Paris
By Paul Millar • Jun 20, 2019

Jun 19, 2019 • 9 min read
South China Sea

Mr. Forones takes on China

For years, Beijing has been controlling islands, reefs and atolls in the South China Sea. And one Philippine fisherman has started fighting back
By Carsten Stormer • Jun 19, 2019

Jun 18, 2019 • 9 min read
Poverty in the Philippines

Duterte’s other war

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's drug crackdown has often been slammed as a war on the nation's poor. But a new anti-poverty law is turning that narrative on its head
By Thomas Brent • Jun 18, 2019

Jun 14, 2019 • 3 min read

Getting in the know

Cambodia’s financial institutions are doing booming business in the Kingdom. But with more and more people applying for credit, knowing what you don’t know about your customers is more crucial than ever
By Credit Bureau Cambodia • Jun 14, 2019