Stripped of the realities of human selfishness and incompetence, microfinance seems a perfect model. Include the poor in the financial sector, give them small loans to invest in their business or ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Beat Richner, a Swiss pediatrician who opened a network of children’s hospitals in Cambodia at a time when quality health care was all but nonexistent in that country, died Sept ...

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Kheun Vandy has been a worried man for the past few days due to the escalating border spat between Cambodia and Thailand. “I need to be quick to enter and return in time before the border crossing is ...

The impoverished Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia is another victim of the global economic slowdown. Two-thirds of Cambodia's export earnings come from the garment industry, which employs about ...

At 79, Sister An Lucie Kim Nga — known popularly as Sister Lucie — moves with the energy and conviction of someone decades younger. The Vietnamese-born superior of the Sisters of Providence in ...

Politicians and economists have been pretty vocal in their response to the ongoing saga of Donald Trump’s tariffs. But much less has been heard from the world’s poorest workers about how they will be ...