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By Dhanita M Nair, Director, SME Resource Centre, Kingdom of Cambodia Every time I drive past a new factory rising on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, or visit a Special Economic Zone where welders, electricians and young engineers move with quiet confidence, I am reminded of a simple truth. Heavy industry is not just about…
Some weeks in Phnom Penh feel heavier with meaning than others. This was one of them. At the Hotel Cambodiana on Thursday, ministers, ambassadors, civil society leaders and survivors sat in the same room and listened as the country opened a new five-year chapter in its fight against gender-based violence. The project being launched is…
An editorial by Jas Sohl, founder of the Cambodia Private Business Centre, New Delhi and London I write this as a British citizen of Indian origin who has spent a meaningful part of his professional life thinking about how the Kingdom of Cambodia connects to the rest of the world. Through the Cambodia Private Business…
A vision becomes real only when someone takes responsibility for it. That is one of the quiet truths behind Cambodia’s Skills Development Roadmap 2023 to 2035. Ideas alone cannot train a young technician, equip a workshop, or open a door for a rural student. What turns ideas into reality is structure. People who answer for…
The Moment Training Becomes Real There is a special kind of confidence that appears in a young person when learning suddenly feels real. It happens when a student stops practicing on paper and starts working with actual tools. It happens when a trainee steps into a real company, watches how a team operates, and realizes,…
The Courage to Ask: “Who Is Still Outside the Door?” A good policy asks, “What should we do?”A great policy asks another, harder question: “Who is still left out?” For years, many Cambodians quietly watched opportunities happen to other people. Young women who left school…
The Classroom That Almost Lost a Generation There is a quiet crisis that no one talks about loudly enough. For years, young Cambodians sat through training programs that didn’t quite match the jobs waiting for them on the other side. Teachers taught what they knew from…
What If the Best Is Yet to Come? Imagine waking up one morning and realizing that the country you love, the one that has already survived the unimaginable, is quietly, steadily, becoming something remarkable. No dramatic announcement. No single headline. Just thousands of young hands learning new trades. Thousands of families watching their children walk…
Cambodia’s trade relationship with Britain is entering a promising new phase, opening fresh opportunities for the kingdom’s agricultural producers to reach one of the world’s most sophisticated retail markets. With bilateral trade rising and Britain maintaining generous tariff preferences for Cambodia, the focus is shifting from basic market access to a more ambitious question: whether…
Cambodia today stands at a quiet but consequential crossroads. The country finds itself navigating a complex mix of external pressures and internal contradictions, at a time when its tourism sector—one of its most vital economic lifelines—has once again become vulnerable. Recent border tensions, sparked not by Cambodian provocation but by political turbulence beyond its control,…
There is a truth many people in Cambodia recognize, yet few are willing to say out loud. It does not appear in policy papers or official speeches. It is rarely acknowledged in public forums. Yet it quietly shapes decisions, delays progress, and defines the limits of reform. That truth is this: one of Cambodia’s greatest…
Progress does not always arrive through dramatic announcements or sudden change. Sometimes it grows slowly, almost quietly, until one day it becomes clear that a place has begun to move with a different kind of confidence. That is what feels visible today in Preah Sihanouk province. What is happening there is not just about numbers…
In the 21st century, the world faces a paradox. While more than two-thirds of our planet is covered in water, less than 1% is accessible and suitable for human consumption. This limited availability, combined with rising demand due to population growth, urbanization, and industrialization, has created a crisis of water scarcity. At the heart of…
