I  think the difference has  started to emerge now in Cambodia between the way our parents think and the way I  and my peers think about employment and  making money. The older generation prefer a regular and safe job which gives them a fixed income, but this seems to have […]

The world once more celebrated the United Nations International Day of Peace, marked as every year on 21st Sept. Yet the world is far from peace as civil wars, religious conflicts, growing insurgencies and the economic downturn bring ever more hardship to people in many countries. And Cambodia is no […]

The Berlin Wall and ThePianist (2002), a biographical war drama film were  my primary sources of information about Germany since 2003, derived  from my bachelors study in International Relations- war and genocide being my points of reference. This time my trip to the Transformation Thinkers Conference in Berlin, organized by the Bertelsmann […]

This article was originally drafted by Indochina Research for the newsletter “I-Light” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. At present, Cambodia is enjoying an investment-driven boom, with the economy growing at 6.5 per cent, according to The Asian Development Bank’s growth […]

Around 73 percent of employers said that university graduates do not possess the right kind of skills for work and a similar view  was held by 62 percent of employers about vocational training graduates. These figures are the striking results of a survey conducted among employers in 2011 by a private consulting […]