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STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 21, 2016 • 9 min read

Cambodia Race to the bottom

By Paul Millar • Oct 21, 2016
In the beginning was the word, torn from the throat of a man who would soon see a minor traffic accident descend into murder: yuon. In February 2014, ten men beat the life from a Cambodian man of Vietnamese descent as he came to the aid of his younger brother…

STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 09, 2016 • 7 min read

Cambodia 15 years underground

By Corinne Purtill • Sep 09, 2016
A new book describes the untold story of the Cambodian families who emerged from the jungle after many years hiding from the Khmer Rouge

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 14, 2016 • 5 min read
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Inspire Asean set for Phnom Penh launch

By Focus Asean Editorial • Jul 14, 2016
On 20 July, Phnom Penh will be host to Inspire Asean, a business forum that brings together leading thinkers and entrepreneurs to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration with a new generation of business people and decision makers in one of the world’s most dynamic markets

STORY OF THE DAY • Jul 13, 2016 • 8 min read

Craft Beer Southeast Asia’s beer revolution

By Logan Connor • Jul 13, 2016
In Cambodia and further afield in Southeast Asia, craft breweries and brewpubs are now catering to a more discerning caste of beer drinkers

Jul 12, 2016 • 6 min read
Cambodia

Memories of a violent past

The murder of respected political analyst Kem Ley marks a return to Cambodia’s dark past of political violence
By Paul Millar • Jul 12, 2016

Jul 04, 2016 • 11 min read
Banking Industry

Uncertainty ahead

Cambodia and Myanmar are seeing swift economic growth. Can their banking industries keep up with the demands of an increasingly connected world?
By David Hutt • Jul 04, 2016

Jun 20, 2016 • 10 min read
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge

The genocide question

The Khmer Rouge, responsible for the deaths of millions of Cambodians in the 1970s, has long been synonymous with the "crime of all crimes". Yet some are questioning whether Pol Pot’s regime is guilty of genocide in all its cruel persecutions
By George Wright • Jun 20, 2016

Jun 17, 2016 • 9 min read

Conserving Cambodia’s cultural treasures

In Phnom Penh and Penang, experts in art conservation are meticulously preserving Cambodia’s artistic legacy, but a punishing climate and scarcity of resources have forced them to get creative 
By Daniel Besant • Jun 17, 2016

May 25, 2016 • 4 min read
Cambodia

Drought and inaction hit rice industry hard

The effects of Cambodia’s recent drought will serve to exacerbate existing structural weaknesses in the rice sector, say experts
By Logan Connor and Paul Millar • May 25, 2016

May 13, 2016 • 3 min read
Cambodia

My cemetery, my home

When sand dredging led to the collapse of their riverbank houses, inhabitants of one Phnom Penh community chose to move to a ghostly new home
By David Hutt and Sam Jam • May 13, 2016