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Money • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 23, 2019 • 8 min read

Green dollars The eco-option

By Sam Campbell • Dec 23, 2019
Top read: With the number of visitors to Angkor Wat severely dropping this year, Cambodia’s tourism industry, so vital to the economy, is in danger of becoming reliant on Chinese gambling dollars in Sihanoukville. In search of alternatives, we return to a piece from 2009 looking at Cambodia's then budding ecotourism industry. Could green be the answer to the Kingdom's tourism woes?

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Money • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 18, 2019 • 10 min read
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Farming and food Hungry for change

By Simon Roughneen • Dec 18, 2019
In the third installment of our eight-week series looking at Cambodia in 2040, we examine how the next two decades will see the Kingdom's food production and farming face a mix of challenges posed by technology, drought and trade. How will a country so reliant on its agricultural sector manage to adapt and survive?

Money • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 29, 2019 • 9 min read

Sustainable luxury tourism A wild Cambodian Bensley experience

By Ron Gluckman • Nov 29, 2019
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.

Money • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 19, 2019 • 7 min read

China's economy Slowing down

By Kevin Livingston • Nov 19, 2019
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

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

Money • Oct 03, 2019 • 12 min read
Indonesia protests

Back on the streets

Students demonstrators have taken to the streets of Indonesia to protest controversial bills – and remind President Joko Widodo not to abandon his reformist credentials
By Stania Puspa

Money • Sep 11, 2019 • 14 min read
Australia and ASEAN

Drawing a line

Australia’s attempts to move closer to Southeast Asia have met with limited success so far, but are likely to become more urgent as the China-US rivalry intensifies
By Simon Roughneen

Money • Aug 27, 2019 • 11 min read
Vietnam economy

Winning the battle, losing the war?

Trade-oriented Vietnam has benefitted from the US-China stand-off, pulling in more investment. But growing exports are dominated by a few big foreign players, leaving Vietnam vulnerable to global market swings
By Simon Roughneen

Money • Aug 22, 2019 • 13 min read
Waste pickers

A brief history of Cambodia’s plastic crisis

Cambodia’s plastic waste is kept in balance thanks to an army of waste pickers, who represent the only functioning infrastructure. We look back at how plastic conquered the Kingdom
By Kathrin Eitel

Money • Aug 19, 2019 • 11 min read
North Korea

A great con?

US President Donald Trump believes North Korea’s beaches would make for great condos and real estate. But with missiles being tested and sanctions in place, will Southeast Asian investors take the plunge?
By Robin Spiess, additional reporting by Veng Sonita

Money • Aug 14, 2019 • 14 min read
EU-ASEAN relations

Stitched together

Citing human rights concerns, the EU is deciding whether to revoke duty-free market access for Cambodia’s exports, even as it tries to boost trade and defence ties with Southeast Asia
By Simon Roughneen