Belt & Road Initiative
In the third episode of Anakut Season Three, the team debut a new format and head out to the Phnom Penh – Sihanoukville expressway and speak to residents and experts about what the BRI really means for Cambodia’s economic relationship with China
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Apr 26, 2023
Education
The second issue of the Globe podcast focusing on the future of Cambodia tackles the Kingdom’s public education post-pandemic and what skills are needed to support students both inside and outside the classrooms
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Apr 12, 2023
Women’s rights
The third season of Globe’s own podcast discussing Cambodia’s future explores women’s evolving role in the Kingdom’s political participation and the challenges they still face
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Apr 05, 2023
Urban planning
Roughly doubling in size and population over the past decade, Phnom Penh is a rapidly changing city. What the next 10 years hold is hard to predict, but we’ve brought on Ngo Natharoun, head of the Center for Khmer Studies, and Michael Waibel, lead of the Build4People urbanism project, to offer their insights
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Aug 18, 2021
Sustainability
Until recently, Cambodia’s energy was drawn from a healthy looking split of renewables and carbon fuels. But with a rash of announced coal power projects, that ratio is set to significantly worsen by 2030. To discuss this, energy expert Chea Sophorn and ERIA’s Venkatachalam Anbumozhi join us in the studio
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Aug 11, 2021
Conservation
This week we take a walk through Prey Lang Forest, in theory a protected sanctuary, but which has seen rampant deforestation propelled by corruption. Joining us are Moeu Chandara, an activist from the Cambodian Youth Network, and Fran Lambrick, a co-founder of environmental and human rights group Not1More
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Aug 04, 2021
Industry
The outlook seemed bleak for the Kingdom’s garment industry when early last year Cambodia simultaneously lost tariff-free access to the EU and the pandemic struck the global economy. Almost 18 months on, we speak with GMAC head Ken Loo and researcher Dennis Arnold to learn about the state of the industry today
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Jul 28, 2021
Ethnic minorities
Being Khmer is often treated as synonymous to being Cambodian. But many ethnicities are woven throughout the Kingdom’s rich tapestry, as social commentator Din Darathtey and Cambodian Living Arts executive director Prim Phloeun join the podcast to discuss
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Jul 21, 2021
Podcast
Proposals for an internet gateway in Cambodia have inevitably drawn comparisons to China’s Great Firewall. In this episode of Anakut, we speak with digital security expert Moses Ngeth and James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China, to hear what this plan could mean in practice
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Jul 14, 2021
Podcast
We have a hot one for the second episode of Anakut Season 2. Things get animated as former Cambodian ambassador to Japan Pou Sothirak and former Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan discuss Cambodia’s role in ASEAN, under scrutiny as its ties with China grow stronger
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Jul 07, 2021
Podcast
Welcome to Season 2 of the Anakut podcast! As June is the Pride Month, we’re kicking off with Cambodia’s LGBTQ+ community, discussing the hopes and challenges facing individuals today. Joining us is Skyler Ros, a transgender fashion designer, and Seng Reasey, executive director of rights group SILAKA
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Jun 30, 2021
Podcast
This week, hosts Meng and Andrew wrap up the first season with a slightly meta topic: The Cambodian media landscape today. Joining them are reporter Phorn Bopha, CCIM media director Ith Sothoeuth, and Focus: Ready for Tomorrow lead editor Nov Povleakhena
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Nov 26, 2020
Podcast
This week, Transparency International Cambodia’s executive director, Pech Pisey, joins Meng and Andrew in the studio to discuss that hottest of topics in the Kingdom today – the state of democracy and corruption in Cambodia
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Nov 19, 2020
Podcast
A reliance on development assistance has been a feature of the post-war Cambodian economy. But as the Kingdom moves towards upper middle-income status, should foreign investment replace foreign aid? Author Dr Ear Sophal joins Andrew in the booth to discuss
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Nov 12, 2020
Podcast
In episode five, we talk leapfrogging. Not the children’s game, but the idea that developing states can skip old tech to get up to speed with the latest and greatest. To learn more, we spoke to Kem Bora of investment group Mekong Strategic Partners, and Manu Rajan, CEO of digital money transfer service Wing
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Nov 05, 2020
Podcast
On Anakut this week we delve into identity and culture, asking that grandest of questions: what does it mean to be Cambodian in 2020? Joining Meng and Andrew in the studio to unpack this are festival organiser Lomorpich Rithy and budding reporter Phannaro Nhem
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Oct 29, 2020
Podcast
Joining Meng and Andrew in their Phnom Penh studio this week are Ham Oudom and Pich Charadine, with chatter turning to one, very large, issue – the fate of the once-Mighty Mekong
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Oct 22, 2020
Podcast
Anakut: The podcast about Cambodia’s future dissects the big issues impacting the Kingdom. This week, feminist figurehead Chak Sopheap and the next generation Ham Pidor discuss a topic directly impacting the lives of 50% of Cambodians – women’s rights
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Oct 15, 2020
Podcast
With plenty of help from our friends, the Globe team is launching onto the airwaves. In the inaugural episode of our very first podcast we chat with Future Forum president Ou Virak and economist Chheng Kimlong about Covid-19 and the Kingdom
Read MoreChia Chi Hsu • Oct 09, 2020
