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Money • STORY OF THE DAY • 4 days ago • 4 min read
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Before the Storm Hits

By World Food Programme • 4 days ago
WFP cash assistance in the Philippines helps communities prepare better and recover quicker

Money • STORY OF THE DAY • 6 days ago • 9 min read

Gender in Singapore Breaking up the boys’ club

By Amanda Oon • 6 days ago
Finance has long been a boys' club, with Singapore no different. Today, FinTech offers more women a way in, but there remains a lack of diversity at its highest levels. Here, two of Singapore's most successful female financial figures offer their reflections on the sector

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Money • Feb 25, 2020 • 13 min read
FDI in Vietnam

Rise of the north

A long-term, export-driven vision has handed Hai Phong the title of Vietnam’s fastest-growing city in terms of GDP since 2015. Deep C is one firm that has contributed to the industrial city's transformation in recent years with their vision of creating a sustainable, environmentally friendly economic hub
By Samantha McCabe

Money • Feb 03, 2020 • 8 min read
Commerce in Singapore

Shop til they drop

Top Read 2017: With vacancy rates for Singapore’s glamorous shopping malls at an all-time high, is the city-state losing its lustre as the region’s shopping hub?
By Kirsten Han

Money • Jan 23, 2020 • 12 min read
Chinese investment

Restoring Sihanoukville

Foreign investors rode a hot streak in Sihanoukville until the gambling game collapsed last summer. Now, with the boomtown at risk of going bust and the city decaying around them, long-term residents, local businesses and construction workers are picking up the pieces
By Andrew Haffner

Money • Jan 01, 2020 • 12 min read
Industry 4.0

Get with the times

In the fifth installment of our eight-week series with Future Forum looking at the Kingdom in 2040, we turn to the future of work. In the coming decades, the region's economies will change faster than we’ve ever seen before. Will Cambodia ride that energy or fall behind?
By Andrew Haffner

Money • Nov 29, 2019 • 9 min read
Sustainable luxury tourism

A wild Cambodian Bensley experience

Can luxury and eco-friendly sustainability be mutually compatible? Southeast Asia Globe sat down with serial luxury hotelier Bill Bensley at his wildest experience so far in Cambodia.
By Ron Gluckman

Money • Nov 19, 2019 • 7 min read
China's economy

Slowing down

Having benefitted from decades of breakneck growth in China, trade- and investment-dependent ASEAN is vulnerable to fluctuations in the world’s second-biggest economy
By Kevin Livingston

Money • Oct 23, 2019 • 10 min read
Timor-Leste

Betting on black

Timor-Leste is racing against the clock to develop newly unlocked Timor Sea wealth before its coffers empty. We look at the different roads that could lead the country to prosperity
By Sophie Raynor

Money • Oct 09, 2019 • 15 min read
Automation

Manufacturing change

Advances in automation are fuelling fears that the rise of robots could drive millions of Asian factory jobs back to the West
By Andrew Haffner