Resources

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 02, 2018 • 16 min read

Cambodia’s building blocks Cementing the future

By Janelle Retka and Leng Len • Oct 02, 2018
As the Kingdom's construction boom continues, the local production of cement has evolved alongside it. But potential environmental issues may prove costly

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 10, 2018 • 18 min read

Cambodia's building blocks How sand dredging bled a fishing community dry

By Janelle Retka and Leng Len • Sep 10, 2018
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.

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 05, 2018 • 15 min read

Renewable energy The price of power

By Amanda Kaufmann • Sep 05, 2018
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

Resources • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 25, 2018 • 7 min read

Cambodia Agriculture branches out as rice returns flatten

By Euan Black • Jun 25, 2018
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

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 • Apr 25, 2018

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 • Jan 24, 2018

Resources • Oct 31, 2017 • 2 min read
Bugs to Pasta

The cricket pasta that can help feed the world

Chomping on crickets is nothing new in Southeast Asia, but a global market for critter-based foods could turn edible insects into a major industry
By Colin Meyn • Oct 31, 2017

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 • May 13, 2017

Resources • Dec 29, 2016 • 6 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 • Dec 29, 2016

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 • May 17, 2016

Resources • May 02, 2016 • 10 min read
Lifeline Mekong

Make or break time

As drought lingers and unfettered dam construction plugs the Mekong river, managing the life-giving waterway becomes ever more crucial
By Daniel Besant • May 02, 2016

Resources • Feb 10, 2016 • 9 min read
Laos

The lost plantations

When Chinese businessmen offered to rent land from impoverished Laotian farmers the deal was too good to turn down. Now, the true cost of banana plantations is finally being counted in northern Laos
By Arnaud Dubus • Feb 10, 2016