Innovation

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 24, 2017 • 4 min read

Cambodia Coffee culture with a ‘Khmer touch’

Home-grown success story Brown Coffee is taking on the international brands pouring into Cambodia
By Claire Knox

Aug 24, 2017

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 07, 2017 • 12 min read

Cambodia Manufacturing on the line

Amid rising labour costs, stagnant export prices and productivity rates well below its neighbours', what might the future of the Kingdom's factories look like?
By Paul Millar

Aug 07, 2017

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 27, 2017 • 7 min read

Pactics Why it pays to pay more

The only way forward for Cambodia's garment sector is good wages, worker empowerment and a focus on sustainability, according to the founder of this unconventional textile factory in Siem Reap
By Claire Knox

Jul 27, 2017

Innovation • Jul 21, 2017 • 7 min read
Thailand's richest woman

Iron butterfly

Thai Malls magnate Supaluck Umpujh talks about fighting gender discrimination and staying on top in a marketplace now bustling with online competition  By Claire Knox

Innovation • May 22, 2017 • 6 min read
Entrepreneur Chy Sila

A Cambodian story

From a $500 business selling pirated CDs in Phnom Penh, Chy Sila has risen to become CEO of Cambodia’s leading media organisation By Paul Millar

Innovation • May 20, 2017 • 7 min read
Architecture

Building a vision for the future

From his striking office in central Phnom Penh, architect Hun Chansan tells Southeast Asia Globe why his firm prefers to take risks and where he believes Phnom Penh’s planning and development is going all wrong By Claire Knox

Innovation • 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

Innovation • Apr 25, 2017 • 7 min read
Smart Tech investments

Anna Gong on Southeast Asia’s start-up bubble

Anna Gong, the winner of the Singapore Women Entrepreneur Award 2017 and CEO of Perx, a mobile customer loyalty company backed by Golden Gate Ventures and the co-founder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin discuss artificial intelligence and the region’s obsession with fintech By Euan Black

Innovation • Apr 10, 2017 • 10 min read
Cambodia

In whose interest?

Cambodia’s microfinance sector reels from the central bank’s decision to introduce an interest rate cap By Euan Black

Innovation • 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

Innovation • 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