Category: Cambodia
Cambodia’s Women Entrepreneurs Aim to Scale Up
The goal? Reshaping the business landscape in Cambodia to encourage women to run businesses, and to promote women as business leaders.
Saving Mekong forests must remain a focus for slowing climate change
As the IPCC readies its Special Report Global Warming at 1.5 °C, world leading scientists warn forest protection is paramount. How will the Mekong Region respond? Ask China.
Poverty falling at rapid pace, says UNDP
All the poverty rateslines, either based on income and other dimensions, have seen big reductions at a gradual pace, often surpassing its peers in the Asia Pacific region and in the world.
‘Human rights the price paid’ for Kingdom’s SEZ growth
While [SEZs] can bring in economic development and trade, they are often intrinsically linked to human rights violations such as land grabs, poor labour conditions or environmental damage.
A Chinese takeaway in Cambodia
But the trickle-down effect of Chinese largesse has been minimal, exacerbating an already burgeoning wealth gap between the politically connected, aspiring mercantile class and the poor who can only watch, dumbfounded.