He runs a school where children pay for their education in recycled waste materials
Category: Cambodia
Chinese Influx Brings Trash, High Prices to Cambodia’s Sihanoukville
A surge in Chinese investment and in the numbers of migrant workers in Cambodia’s port city of Sihanoukville has left local beaches polluted and Cambodian residents struggling to meet higher prices as the cost of living rises, Cambodian sources say.
Australian bank caught in violation of own policies and intl. human rights standards
In 2011, ANZ provided a $40 million loan to Phnom Penh Sugar, which had forcibly displaced hundreds of local farming families and employed school-aged children in dangerous conditions
Smartphones help to save forest in Cambodia
The app “Prey Lang App” makes it easy for local forest patrols in Cambodia to geo-reference, document, and upload data about forest resources and illegal logging.
Cambodia Faces Potential Economic Collapse
The slated withdrawal of crucial European Union trade preferences will likely force its leader to walk back a prolonged political crackdown, observers and labor groups say.
Cambodia calls EU trade threat ‘extreme injustice’
The EU announced Cambodia could lose its special access to European markets over undemocratic practices.
PM wants more Japanese investment in Cambodia
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking at the Mekong- Japan Business Forum in Tokyo on October 9, invited Japanese firms to visit Cambodia and convince themselves that it a worthy country for their investments.
Encountering Cambodia’s biggest irrigation project, but where’s the irrigation?
Cambodia’s largest and most costly irrigation scheme has failed to irrigate a single hectare, but plans are afoot to double down with an even more expensive project.
UN ‘Apologizes’ to End Row With Cambodia Over Poverty Level Measurement
UN had published poverty statistics almost three times as high as the official estimate.
Food Security be Dammed: Cambodia Trades Fish for Energy
The Lower Seasan 2 dam threatens to drastically reduce Cambodian fish stocks, which will undermine food security, particularly among the rural poor.