Innovation

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 31, 2017 • 2 min read

Bugs to Pasta The cricket pasta that can help feed the world

By Colin Meyn • Oct 31, 2017
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

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 18, 2017 • 6 min read

Zoë Ng Shaking up Cambodian office culture

By Euan Black • Oct 18, 2017
Zoë Ng worked at McKinsey, Google and the beauty startup Charlotte Tilbury to build up a range of experience before striking out on her own. Now she heads up Raintree, an award-winning office and retail development in Phnom Penh

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 09, 2017 • 6 min read

Cambodia Bringing the tunes to temple town

By Claire Knox • Sep 09, 2017
Just a stone’s throw from the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, 60 Road Studios in Siem Reap is enticing global musicians and training a new generation of recording technicians

Innovation • Sep 06, 2017 • 7 min read
Malaysia Design Archive

Malaysia’s identity seen through decades of design

From demeaning ice cream wrappers to the Malaysian ‘Uncle Sam’, the Malaysia Design Archive is opening people’s eyes to how art reflects a nation's values
By Kate Mayberry • Sep 06, 2017

Innovation • 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 • 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 • 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 • Jul 21, 2017

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 • May 22, 2017

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 • May 20, 2017

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 • May 13, 2017