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Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 14, 2019 • 8 min read

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples Last of their kind

By Andre Barahamin • Nov 14, 2019
A forest community on Halmahera Island, North Maluku, is facing displacement by land-hungry businesses, threatening doomsday for a timeless hunter-gatherer lifestyle

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 30, 2019 • 15 min read

Waste to energy Money to burn

By Claire Baker-Munton • Jul 30, 2019
Limiting global heating means leaving fossil fuels in the ground. But the growing practice of breaking down and burning up the world's plastic waste for its energy potential is challenging this idea

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 12, 2018 • 17 min read

Cambodia's building blocks Blood bricks

By Janelle Retka and Leng Len • Nov 12, 2018
Cambodia's construction boom has demand for clay bricks climbing. But a transformation to Cambodia’s rural economy feeds some of the most vulnerable into the growing brick sector and its toxic debt bondage

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 11, 2018 • 12 min read

Sustainable development Vietnam’s good life

By Michael Tatarski • Oct 11, 2018
Vietnam performed the best of 151 countries in a study that assessed quality of life versus environmental sustainability

Resources • Sep 10, 2018 • 18 min read
Cambodia's building blocks

How sand dredging bled a fishing community dry

After a decade of heavy sand dredging in the waterways of Cambodia's Koh Kong province, a fishing community once recognised for its rich ecosystem is struggling to fill its nets.
By Janelle Retka and Leng Len

Resources • Sep 05, 2018 • 15 min read
Renewable energy

The price of power

The deadly dam collapse in Laos in 2018 brings Cambodia’s own grand plans for hydropower into question – and thrusts solar power to the forefront of the Kingdom’s quest for energy independence
By Amanda Kaufmann

Resources • Jun 25, 2018 • 6 min read
Cambodia

Agriculture branches out as rice returns flatten

Although rice has long fed both the people and the economy of Cambodia, experts say that crop diversification and increased investment are needed to take the agriculture industry to the next level
By Euan Black

Resources • Apr 25, 2018 • 3 min read
Superfoods

Purple grain

Siam Organic is helping to tackle Thai poverty while also jumping on the superfood bandwagon with a new breed of richly coloured rice that it claims is the healthiest in the world
By Cristyn Lloyd

Resources • Jan 24, 2018 • 9 min read
Cambodia

Bat faeces turn to ‘black gold’

Top read: We return to one of our most popular pieces of 2018, which looked at the Cambodians reliant on bat faeces to sustain their livelihoods. Nutrient rich guano – colloquially known as “black gold” – provides powerful fertility to farmers' lands and a solid income to those who farm bats, and their faeces
By Claire Baker-Munton

Resources • 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

Resources • Dec 29, 2016 • 7 min read
Mogok

Myanmar’s mysterious mining mecca

Myanmar’s miners have been left with little more than scraps following years of military plunder
By Feliz Solomon

Resources • May 17, 2016 • 8 min read
Indonesia

Getting the water right

Jakarta's water is controlled by big business, but activists are pushing for the city to follow a worldwide water management trend back to public ownership
By David Hutt