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Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 18, 2019 • 10 min read

Science How stem cell-grown seafood could save our dying world

With cruelty-free shrimps lab-grown from a handful of stem cells, Singapore-based Shiok Meats is putting Southeast Asia on the cell-based meats map – and offering an environmentally conscious alternative to the emissions-heavy fishery industry
By Robin Spiess

Feb 18, 2019

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

Cambodia's building blocks Blood bricks

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
By Janelle Retka and Leng Len

Nov 12, 2018

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

Sustainable development Vietnam’s good life

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

Oct 11, 2018

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 01, 2018 • 3 min read

Energy Timor-Leste buys historic stake in Greater Sunrise fields

Timor-Leste has closed a deal to purchase ConocoPhillips' multi-billion-dollar stake in the Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields, strengthening its position in long-running negotiations
By Sophie Raynor

Oct 01, 2018

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 • May 24, 2018 • 6 min read
Marine aquaculture

Why Southeast Asia is perfectly placed to embrace large-scale fish farming

The market is there, the physical conditions are near perfect and there is a great potential for growth. So why does Southeast Asian marine aquaculture still consist mainly of small family fish farms and not large-scale projects targeting local as well as export markets? By Uffe Wilken

Resources • Apr 25, 2018 • 3 min read
Superfoods

The purple rice helping Thai farmers overcome poverty

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’

Nutrient rich Guano 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