Author: Leopard Capital 
Mom Pagnahei encourages Cambodians to consider life insurance for security.
Cambodia Life Insurance Company Plc plans to bundle services with banks to offer guarantees on mortgages, company representatives said. More…
Reposted from East Asia Forum
By Lex Rieffel, Brookings Institution
The global policy community has focused on the political challenges facing the government of President Thein Sein in Myanmar and paid little attention to the economic challenges. More…
President Thein Sein
LAST month Thein Sein shared with an audience an “aspired goal” for his country’s economy: to triple per-capita GDP by 2016. With the current population that would entail inducing output to grow by more than 25% year on year—no mean feat by any standard. Even gas-rich Qatar, home to one of the world’s fastest-expanding economies last year, grew by a mere 14%. More…
Reposted from The Phnom Penh Post
By Don Weinland
Investor on the Cambodia Securities Exchange could soon have more trading time as the exchange regulator considers adding four trading sessions with the hopes of increasing trade volume. More…
Deputy Chief Executive Courtney Lodge (second left) gives the toast at the unveiling ceremony of First Heritage Cooperative Union
Small businesses will find it easier to raise equity when the newly formed First Heritage Co-Operative Credit Union (FHC) launches one of the island’s first venture capital funds. More…
Dr Jean Orelien sees a lot of potential in Haiti’s tourism industry
Caribbean Journal’s new Business of Haiti feature takes a look at Haiti’s economy — and the people who are working to move it into a new era. More…
U.S. Under Secretary of State Robert Hormats
(Reuters) – A top State Department official on Tuesday said he was optimistic Myanmar would stay on the path of political and economic reforms, but warned potential U.S. investors they face a complicated business environment there. More…
A worker dries Chinese sausage at the Kim Chanthou handicraft factory in Phnom Penh
Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are busily preparing for the ASEAN Economic Community’s free flow of goods in 2015 and are probably not that different from the other 10 ASEAN member states’ own SMEs. More…
Reposted from The Wall Street Journal
By Patrick Barta
The World Bank said it was making plans to resume aid to Myanmar after cutting off new lending to the country some 25 years ago, marking the latest major milestone in Myanmar’s rapprochement with the Western world. More…
