About 150 investors from New Zealand and Australia gathered on Wednesday to learn about the Cambodian investment opportunities for foreign companies to run their business operation here, said Australian ambassador and Cambodian officials. Australian Margaret Adamson said Cambodia needed to invest in human resource capacity so that they can help to develop the country, and foreign companies can play a vital role in the country's education field. 'Cambodian human resource needs to be improved,' Adamson told the floor. She said Cambodian people themselves demanded better trained labor forces to work in the farming, construction, fishery and forestry, and mining sectors. Cambodian Senior Minister and Vice Chairman of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) Sun Chanthol said his country needed foreign investment to invest in building human resource capacities. 'It is very important to have human resource for the development of our country. We need foreign investment to invest in educational sector,' he told the meeting. 'We have abundance of natural resources, but we still need to train more labor forces to be skilled. I urge you to invest in human resource sector in Cambodia.' Sun Chanthol also said that Cambodia committed to raise the living standard of Cambodians but foreign investment's contribution is needed. About 30 percent, out of the total Cambodia's 14 million populations, live under the poverty line of less than a dollar a day. 'When you invest in Cambodia, you do not look Cambodia as 14 million consumers, you must look Cambodia as a center of gravity of Southeast Asia and ASEAN,' he added. Sun also said Cambodia has been an investment destination given the country has enjoyed political and macroeconomic stability, free quotas of goods export to China, the United States and the European Union in addition to the bilateral trade agreements with a number of countries. 