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 growth and reduce poverty, officials and experts said on Saturday (Sept 19).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodia's women fight poverty with self-help Setting up a self-help group to give women access to loans and teach them financial management and how to start a business is helping to lift women, and ...