Cambodia's poverty crisis

(Photo: Betsy Baehr, DesMoines Registers)

October 28, 2010

ABC Radio Australia

Rapid urban development in Cambodia has resulted in changes in Phnom Penh - many Cambodians are missing out on new found economic growth 13 years after the end of civil conflict. Pou Sothirak, a former Cambodian industry minister and ambassador to Japan, has written extensively about poverty in Cambodia and is in Melbourne to address Monash University's Cambodia Roundtable 2010.

Presenter: Sen Lam

Speaker: Pou Sothirak, former Cambodian industry and mines minister, and current senior visiting fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian studies, Singapore