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Money • STORY OF THE DAY • May 22, 2017 • 6 min read

Entrepreneur Chy Sila A Cambodian story

By Paul Millar • May 22, 2017
From a $500 business selling pirated CDs in Phnom Penh, Chy Sila has risen to become CEO of Cambodia’s leading media organisation

Money • STORY OF THE DAY • May 20, 2017 • 7 min read

Architecture Building a vision for the future

By Claire Knox • May 20, 2017
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

Money • 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

Money • May 09, 2017 • 12 min read
Politics

The price of loyalty

Prime Minister Hun Sen's party dominated the last round of commune elections in 2012. But much has changed, and local polls in June will test whether the system that has kept Southeast Asia’s longest-serving leader in power is crumbling
By Colin Meyn • May 09, 2017

Money • 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 • Apr 25, 2017

Money • Apr 10, 2017 • 10 min read
Microfinance

In whose interest?

Cambodia’s microfinance sector reels from the central bank’s decision to introduce an interest rate cap
By Euan Black • Apr 10, 2017

Money • 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 • Apr 07, 2017

Money • 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 • Mar 31, 2017

Money • Mar 21, 2017 • 6 min read
William Heineke

On top of the world

Over a glass of scotch at his lavish Bangkok penthouse, Heinecke talks about navigating the region’s tumultuous political landscapes, his rise to riches and giving up his US citizenship
By Rachna Sachasinh • Mar 21, 2017

Money • Mar 21, 2017 • 2 min read
Investment

Myanmar could see foreign investment plummet by 30%

While foreign direct investment has exploded in Myanmar in recent years, a lack of oil and gas investments seems to be hamstringing the emerging economy
By Logan Connor • Mar 21, 2017