Director, Assistant Professor Mahdev Mohan, and Research Manager, Vani Sathisan, of the Asian Peace-building and Rule of Law Programme at the SMU School of Law, wrote about how conflict, graft and complicity contribute to significant business-related harm that threatens basic standards of living in Cambodia and Myanmar. They highlighted two high profile land-grabbing cases, and said that in states with weak institutions, such as Cambodia and Myanmar, the risks of fresh and intractable violence erupting are very real. Branding these two governments as being on different sides of the line that demarcates acceptable reform may be expedient for Western states keen on winning the hand of resource-rich Myanmar, but it may conceal tipping points within these countries and the ambitions of regional corporations and governments.