US Ambassador’s Council Faces Disengaged Youth

Say Mony, VOA Khmer
Friday, 31 August 2012

About 70 percent of Cambodia’s population is below the age of 30, making them a powerful constituency.

Cambodia students hold the Cambodian national flags as they attend the Independence Day celebration at the Independence Monument in the capital Phnom Penh.

PHNOM PENH - The new US ambassador to Cambodia, William Todd, has initiated an Ambassador’s Youth Council, aimed at engaging young people in issues of national importance. But the new initiative faces a number of challenges, including the attitudes of youths themselves.