Search results for "Cambodia"

Feb 01, 2021 • 7 min read
Investment policy

The gate keeper

The Secretary General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), Sok Chenda Sophea, on promoting the Kingdom to investors while adhering to government policies and ambitions for sectorial growth
By Focus Cambodia Editorial

Feb 01, 2021 • 9 min read
Food & Agriculture

Home grown

With a wealth of high-quality agricultural products grown in Cambodia, the country has a lot to offer local, regional, and global markets. However, equipment upgrades, reimagined marketing strategies and big-picture thinking will be required if the Kingdom is to catch up with regional peers
By Focus Cambodia Editorial

Feb 01, 2021 • 8 min read
Social security

Hope on the horizon

While economic progress marches on, not everyone has benefited from this financial boom. Addressing disparities, Cambodia’s government has undertaken a plan that aims to help the country’s most vulnerable and has transformative potential for the Kingdom
By Focus Cambodia Editorial

Feb 01, 2021 • 3 min read
Tourism

Open for business

Betting on Cambodia’s ongoing economic growth, the capital’s thriving hospitality industry sees new entrants count on a strong recovery of business travel following the 2020 pandemic crisis
By Focus Cambodia Editorial

Feb 01, 2021 • 3 min read
Podcast

Listen to the future

Get a well rounded picture while on the road with Anakut – a podcast series produced jointly by Southeast Asia Globe and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Cambodia
By Focus Cambodia Editorial

Jan 30, 2021 • 3 min read
Editorial

A historical perspective

This week we have three history-focused pieces, providing a peak into bygone eras and trends (some good, some not so good) from across the region. First, we take a birds-eye view of 1950s Indochina, as friend of the Globe Fabrice Moussus offers up photos taken from the plane of his father, a French airforce pilot. The Globe's Govi Snell also delves into the disappearing world of Vietnam's rich tradition of typography, while investigative reporter Klas Lundstrom looks at how decades of war and occupation in Timor-Leste can still be seen in the bodies and minds of the country's youth today
By Andrew Haffner

Jan 28, 2021 • 3 min read
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Travel

Nature encounters luxury at Siem Reap’s famous resort

Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf & Spa Resort is a true haven tailored for wellness, blending elements of nature and international 5-star standards
By Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf & Spa Resort

Jan 25, 2021 • 4 min read
History

[Photos] Bird’s-eye view: Aerial photos of 1953 Indochina

Post-WWI, aerial photography became central to French rule over Indochina as the colonial administration charted remote corners of the region. Here, images taken by a French air force pilot show the empire's dying days, providing a bird’s-eye view of Cambodia and Vietnam
By Alastair McCready

Jan 22, 2021 • 9 min read
Covid-19

In Laos, children kept from learning by world’s most expensive internet

Broadband internet became indispensable during the pandemic, facilitating ways to study, work, and socialise online. But rural Laos lags badly behind with its patchy connectivity and expensive broadband internet, jeopardising education and harming development
By Christine Redmond

Jan 22, 2021 • 3 min read
Editorial

Conservation vs tradition

This week the Globe’s Wanpen Pajai covers an unusual clash between environmental conservation and indigenous rights in Thailand, as in the Kaeng Krachan National Park indigenous Karen are increasingly restricted within their ancestral home as authorities strive for UNESCO heritage status. Ashley Lampard in Hanoi also marks an important date, as he speaks with the folks at Agent Orange community programme Friendship Village on the anniversary of the chemical first being dropped in Vietnam
By Andrew Haffner