Hun Sen set out that challenge several years ago, but the country’s infrastructure and quality control have hampered rice exports.
About 1,000 unions are active for workers rights, in a sector that employs up to 700,000 people.
Cambodia is ranked one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Many of its people rely on agriculture, and the changes to the country’s climate, whether more droughts or more floods, makes them particularly vulnerable.
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To conservative Cambodians, sex workers are defying traditional values.
Experts fear that Cambodia will not be competitive with its Southeast Asian neighbors, as a free flow of goods and services between the 10 Asean members ensues.
Hun Sen has expressed a desire to improve Cambodia’s image abroad, but the country’s deep poverty, political divisions and human rights abuses make that a tough case.
Cambodia will participate the global summit on climate change in Paris this December. World leaders will meet to find ways to curb climate change, much of which is the responsibility of developed countries, but with can severely impact poorer countries.
According to the World Economic Forum 2015, Cambodia was ranked 95th in competitiveness, surpassing only Myanmar among countries in Asean.
Cambodia’s garment sector is a major economic driver in the country, earning some $3 billion from exports in the first half of 2015.
Cambodians expect 'seamless transition' when ASEAN Economic Community is launched in two months and hopefully heralds second investment wave.
This transaction is a monthly ritual among Cambodia’s 600,000 garment workers whose modest contributions help support the livelihoods of their families in the poorer rural areas.
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