Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh — a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty ...

Cambodia is keen to attract more foreign investors, as foreign investment is crucial to boost the kingdom's socio-economic ...

Daughters runs seven different businesses that women who wish to leave the sex trade can work in, so that they have a viable choice other than being a prostitute. In a city where red light areas are ...

Cambodia’s social health protection system, which is made up of two primary mechanisms, the National Social Security Fund and the Health Equity Fund (HEF), currently only provides coverage for certain ...

01:00 toward more productive sectors, 01:02 creating better paying manufacturing and services jobs. 01:05 Workers were able to move out of low paying agriculture 01:09 into these better paying sectors ...

For almost a quarter of a century, a French NGO-backed hospitality school near Cambodia's Angkor Wat tourist mecca has quietly been transforming the lives of thousands of impoverished farming families ...

The Covid-19 pandemic ended a decade of unprecedented economic growth and poverty reduction in Cambodia and pushed about 460,000 people into poverty, a World Bank Poverty Assessment Report, released ...

Villagers in western Cambodia where a mass outbreak of HIV took place almost a decade ago are facing increasingly poor living conditions and have asked government authorities to renew efforts to help ...

Wade Roberts’s love of Cambodia and its people began in 1999 when he served a church mission in Fresno, California, where he learned Khmer, Cambodia’s language. He loved his mission, the people he ...

Since its outbreak in mid-2025, the Cambodia–Thailand border conflict has disrupted cross-border trade and worsened livelihoods on both sides. The United Nations reports several waves of displacement ...