A GENERATION OF WORK NEEDED TO IMPROVE CAMBODIAN’S SKILLS: EXPERT
January 1st, 2017
IT will take at least one entire generation before Cambodia can fill a serious gap in the country’s skilled and professional labour force, an industry expert has warned – the problem dates to the Khmer Rouge dictatorship, whose brutal Marxists massacred educated Cambodians.
Today, 38 years after Pol Pot was forced from power by a Vietnamese invasion, Cambodia is still suffering from skills shortages wreaked by this genocidal regime, partly because it killed any teachers it could identify. Educated Cambodians had already fled the country during the 1967-75 ...
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