Earth

How environmental change is shaping Southeast Asia.

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 18, 2017 • 6 min read

Zoë Ng Shaking up Cambodian office culture

By Euan Black • Oct 18, 2017
Zoë Ng worked at McKinsey, Google and the beauty startup Charlotte Tilbury to build up a range of experience before striking out on her own. Now she heads up Raintree, an award-winning office and retail development in Phnom Penh

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 15, 2017 • 5 min read

Elephant Tourism A cruel world

By Jan Schmidt-Burbach • Sep 15, 2017
Since 2015, World Animal Protection has visited 220 venues across Asia that use elephants to entertain tourists. The findings were worrying, but better informed tourists can be part of a crucial change, argues World Animal Protection advisor Jan Schmidt-Burbach 

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 14, 2017 • 10 min read

Phnom Penh City of garbage

By Colin Meyn and Mech Dara • Sep 14, 2017
As Cambodia's capital becomes a modern metropolis, its sole garbage collection company, Cintri, is failing to keep up. Can Cambodia's capital clean up its act?

Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 19, 2017 • 6 min read

Indonesia Solving our plastic bag nightmare

By Ana Salvá • Jul 19, 2017
The creator of Bali’s biodegradable cassava starch bags says they have had “enquiries from almost every country on earth”, but some question the viability of large-scale production

Earth • Jun 07, 2017 • 10 min read
Cambodia

The fewer forests, the more floods

Massive deforestation is playing a crucial role in the droughts that are devastating Cambodia. But despite an official ban on timber exports, forests continue to be cut down at a record rate
By Euan Black • Jun 07, 2017

Earth • May 26, 2017 • 2 min read
Nuclear

Philippines and Russia sign nuclear cooperation deal

The deal suggests President Duterte is serious about his pledge to move away from the US and cosy up to ‘non-traditional partners’
By Will Feuer • May 26, 2017

Earth • May 17, 2017 • 8 min read
Indonesia

The red-light district that everyone loves

Jakarta’s Kalijodo red-light district has been shut down, cleaned up and transformed into a vibrant public space. But the reimagining of the area didn’t come without a human cost
By Gabrielle Lipton • May 17, 2017

Earth • May 13, 2017 • 4 min read
Cambodia

The slow growth of organic farming

Farming without chemicals brings huge benefits to both producer and consumer, but it’s a hard sell in Cambodia, where poverty is preventing large swathes of the rural population from investing in a long-term, organic future
By Euan Black • May 13, 2017

Earth • Apr 20, 2017 • 11 min read
Climate change

Aung San Suu Kyi’s climate crisis

In 2008, Myanmar suffered its worst natural disaster on record when Cyclone Nargis swept through and the military regime hampered relief efforts. Now, the new government is struggling to find the resources needed to help protect its people from the ravages of global warming
By Fatima Arkin • Apr 20, 2017

Earth • Apr 07, 2017 • 7 min read
Yangon

Grand designs and crumbling colonial architecture

A new city council and a growing number of progressive architecture firms may signal fresh hope for the city's decaying colonial buildings
By Thomas Kean • Apr 07, 2017

Earth • Mar 31, 2017 • 11 min read
Urban Migration

Cambodia’s affordable housing crisis

Several privately funded affordable housing developments have broken ground in Cambodia but, as urban migration intensifies, can the country meet the urgent demand for social housing?
By Claire Knox • Mar 31, 2017

Earth • Jan 31, 2017 • 7 min read
Cambodia

The rain gamblers

Climate change could spell the end for Cambodia’s high-stakes habit of betting on the weather
By Paul Millar • Jan 31, 2017