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STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 01, 2021 • 3 min read
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Interview Natural and responsible Cambodian beauty products go abroad

By Bodia • Feb 01, 2021
Focus Cambodia sits down with Antoine Bancel, co-founder of BODIA the Cambodian Apothecary, to learn more about how they are exporting their natural and responsible beauty products around the world and how they’ve built a brand people can’t stop talking about

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 01, 2021 • 4 min read
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Agriculture Rooted in conservation

By IBIS Rice • Feb 01, 2021
IBIS Rice was founded on a dream of profitable wildlife-friendly agriculture. Now, the company has made that a reality

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 01, 2021 • 3 min read

CSR It’s natural

By Focus Cambodia Editorial • Feb 01, 2021
Corporate responsibility is helping one company to safeguard Cambodia’s ecological treasures

STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 01, 2021 • 10 min read

Fintech Tech & Money

By Focus Cambodia Editorial • Feb 01, 2021
A young population with an enthusiasm for digital innovation coupled with consistent economic growth has created a promising market for fintech solutions. Focusing on financial inclusion, the most exciting developments will produce a more robust ecosystem and more opportunities to investors in the industry

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

Feb 01, 2021 • 4 min read
Finance

Local focus, global reach

BPC’s banking tech has already updated best practices across Asia. Focus Cambodia speaks with Veasna Nguon, Business Development Director for Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar about its recent entry to Cambodia, and what the firm envisions as a new hub with long-term ambition
By BPC • Feb 01, 2021

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

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

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

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 • Feb 01, 2021

Jan 29, 2021 • 7 min read
Covid-19

A year in numbers: Cambodia’s hopeful Covid-19 statistics

Phnom Penh-based data specialist David Benaim has spent recent months trawling through previously scattered information on Covid-19 in Cambodia. A year since the Kingdom reported its first case, his research provides a surprisingly positive public health outlook
By David Benaim • Jan 29, 2021

Jan 28, 2021 • 4 min read
Opinion

Questions over civil society support as Swedish Embassy to shutter doors in Cambodia

Late last year, the Swedish government announced it would be closing its embassy in Cambodia. A long-time promoter and defender of human rights in the Kingdom, the closure will be sorely felt among civil society groups say Sopheap Chak and Jan Axel Nordlander
By Jan Axel Nordlander and Sopheap Chak • Jan 28, 2021