Innovation

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 19, 2018 • 5 min read

Whatever happened to Cambodia’s ‘government-backed’ cryptocurrency?

By Robin Spiess • Jun 19, 2018
News of a cryptocurrency endorsed by the Cambodian government began circulating earlier this year, with international media also picking up the story. Then suddenly, it all went quiet. So what exactly happened to Entapay – the company behind it – and its ambitions to create a Cambodian cryptocurrency?

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 14, 2018 • 7 min read

UnUsUaL The brother’s empire

By Janelle Retka • Jun 14, 2018
Singapore's UnUsUaL has become Southeast Asia's leading music production and promotion company, worth $500m. Co-founder and partner Leslie Ong shares the highs and lows of building an empire from scratch

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 13, 2018 • 6 min read

Cambodia Empowering a Kingdom’s businesswomen

By Paul Millar • Jun 13, 2018
Although women own 65% of Cambodia’s businesses, fewer than half of them employ more than one person. Women-focused social impact fund She Investment co-founder Loem Lida explains how her organisation is helping the Kingdom’s women grow as entrepreneurs

Innovation • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 06, 2018 • 9 min read

Ten to watch Entrepreneurs defining Cambodia’s future

By Janelle Retka • Jun 06, 2018
With its burgeoning business and startup scene, modern Cambodia is host to a slew of exciting, young talent. We pick out ten rising stars who are shaking up the status quo

Innovation • May 29, 2018 • 5 min read
Cambodian Telcos

The price of tomorrow

A lack of transparency among some of the country’s leading telecom companies could eventually prove detrimental for Cambodians in the long term
By Robin Spiess • May 29, 2018

Innovation • Mar 29, 2018 • 3 min read
Affordable housing

A Cambodian housing revolution built on ‘Lego bricks’

Hav Kongngy hopes his affordable, interlocking bricks can help tackle a housing crisis that has left many Cambodians unable to afford a home
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Mar 29, 2018

Innovation • Mar 06, 2018 • 2 min read
Agriculture

Technology and farming: A match made in heaven

How businesses are transforming the farming sector by providing innovative, tech-based solutions to Southeast Asia's agriculture problems
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Mar 06, 2018

Innovation • Feb 27, 2018 • 7 min read
Singapore business

With a little help from a ‘golden duck’

A legal dispute led to the collapse of his nightclub, but Jonathan Shen bounced back to build a thriving snacks business off the back of Singapore’s wildly popular salted egg yolk trend
By Euan Black • Feb 27, 2018

Innovation • 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

Innovation • Dec 06, 2017 • 7 min read
Vietnam

The ‘coffee king’

Hai Ninh Nguyen came from the rural province of Thai Binh to be one of only four Vietnamese people to make this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
By Euan Black • Dec 06, 2017