Tag: Southeast Asia

Decades after the Khmer Rouge murdered most of the middle class and brought the country’s economy back to the stone age, Cambodia is finally making an economic comeback. While growth in 2016 is expected to hit only 7.5 percent, up from 7.3 percent last year, the number remains high. But at the same time, political, human rights and labor tensions are on the rise, and it is expected that tensions between the ruling and opposition parties will increase, and could even become overtly hostile.