Child labor is draining the Kingdom’s brainpower and adversely affecting 750,000 of its children. Roughly 1.5 million Cambodian children are “economically active”, according to Veng Heang, director of the child labour department at the Ministry of Labor. Permitted and non-permitted work. This means they contribute to the economy in some way through either “permitted” or [...]
Archive for February 23rd, 2012
23 Feb
Cambodia: Top Ten incoming tourist countries 2011.
Cambodia closed 2011 with 2.88 million international tourists, a substantial increase of 14.9% over 2010. During 2011, neighboring Vietnam was the top contributor with 614,090 trips up 19.4% compared to 2010. Thailand ranked at eighth supplied 116,758 tourists down 21%. By region and market share, Asia Pacific supplied as much as 73.1% or 2,106,601 trips [...]
