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 ...

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 economy continues to be a challenge for many Cambodia’s families. It has been this way for too long a time and it still continues to happen today. Roughly one in every five people lived below the ...

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 ...

The Cambodian government is not supporting hundreds of thousands of migrant workers with microfinance debts who returned from Thailand because of hostilities in mid-2025. The Cambodian government has ...

Human Rights Watch argues that Cambodian microfinance institutions, backed by investors such as IFC, are targeting Indigenous communities with predatory lending and debt collection practices. Cambodia ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A Cambodian blogger asked recently whether the country's 84-year-old retired king, Norodom Sihanouk, should be considered the country's founding father of blogging. He got no ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Mon Moeun, one of thousands of Cambodians pulled out of poverty by a job in the garment trade since foreign investors arrived in the 1990s, may be back rearing pigs soon after a ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's Hem Bunting is certain his rivals' preparations for the Beijing Olympics marathon would have been a lot different to his. Unlike his fellow athletes, Bunting has no ...

Circus artist Kong Viban was born in Battambang, in northwestern Cambodia. The Southeast Asian country is known for its majestic Angkor temples as well as for its dark recent history. Viban enrolled ...