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Read More Give Their Land Titles Instead of Harassing, Intimidating Samrong Tbong Community, CSOs Tell Authorities
Thirty eight civil society organizations including the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) and local communities have urged the government and authorities to immediately stop harassing and intimidating Samrong Tbong residents and give them their land titles.
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Read More HRW demands ‘immediate release’ of jailed Cambodian gov’t critic
Human Rights Watch urged Cambodian authorities on Wednesday to “immediately release” a government critic arrested earlier this month over a post on social media.
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Read More Ministry of Information Finalizing Protracted Access to Information Draft Law
The Ministry of Information is finalizing the long-overdue draft law on the access to information, known as the “A2I draft law”, as highlighted in its work direction for 2024.
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Read More Democracy remains a waiting game under Cambodia’s Hun Manet
Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen’s resignation and his subsequent appointment of his eldest son Hun Manet as Cambodia’s new leader puts 2023 among the most significant years in the country’s history.
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Read More 20 Years On – Chea Vichea’s Death Mourned, Call To Build Symbolic Stupa To End Impunity
Dozens of workers, union and civil society representatives, and relatives gathered in front of Chea Vichea’s statue on Monday to commemorate the union leader’s passing 20 years ago near the Langka Pagoda in 2004.
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Read More Appeals Court Upholds Candlelight’s Thach Setha’s Verdict On Bad Checks
The Appeal Court on Monday upheld Candlelight party leader Thach Setha’s guilty verdict decision made by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for issuing bad checks.
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Read More Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang
A freeze announced late last year on new mining operations in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary comes with a massive loophole that benefits one of the country’s highest-profile deforesters.
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Read More Labor leader remembered 20 years after his assassination
Twenty years after he was gunned down while reading a newspaper, Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea was remembered on Monday by union members, family members, NGO officials and opposition politicians.
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Read More Centuries-Old Rituals Are Slowly Fading Away in Cambodia
“What on earth are you going to do in Tropeang Krohom?” The driver of the minivan turns his head and gives me a puzzled look. Few passengers want to be dropped off in a settlement between two provincial towns.
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Read More New M’kiri Airport To Boost Tourism, Economy But Deforestation Concerns Linger
The government has permitted private firm Focus Trans Global Venture Co Ltd (FTGV) to study the construction of a new airport in Mondulkiri province, northeast of Cambodia, as well as invest in a build, operate and transfer (BOT) model, the Office of the Council Minister said on January 9.
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Read More Lowell legislators testify in support of free and fair elections in Cambodia
Legislators from Lowell testified before the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs Tuesday in support of resolutions filed in the the state Legislature that would condemn ongoing political oppression and encourage free and fair elections in Cambodia.
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Read More Two Candlelight Officials Charged On Alleged Forgery of Election Process
Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged two Candlelight Party officials and placed them in pretrial detention for alleged forgery, use of forged documents and forgery of public documents involved in the election process.
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Read More Police Locate 56 Foreign Trafficking Victims in Phnom Penh, Arrest Two Suspects
The General Department of Immigration arrested two Bangladeshi citizens on human trafficking charges on January 11, following a search of two locations in Phnom Penh. Authorities also found 51 Bangladeshis victims, four Indian victims and one Sri Lankan victim.
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Read More ‘We Are Dying To Live In Our Homeland’: Siem Reap Villagers Protest Against Apsara
On Monday hundreds of families living inside the Angkor archaeological park protested against the Apsara National Authority, which manages the park, for barring them from doing construction and other activities that support their livelihoods.
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Read More Seven Boeung Tamok Residents Sued For Stopping The Demolition of A Vegetable Stall
Seven Boeung Tamok residents in Prek Pnov district have received additional court summons from the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday morning following their clash with district authorities on December 18, 2023.
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Read More Indigenous Kuy People Block Outsiders From Clearing Farmland in Preah Vihear
M’lou Prey II commune authorities, of Preah Vihear’s Chheb district, submitted documentation Tuesday to the district regarding alleged encroachment on land farmed by Indigenous Kuy people following a protest earlier this month.
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Read More Local CP official arrested, charged for forgery
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court arrested and charged yesterday a local official of the Candlelight Party (CP) accused of allegedly copying three fingerprints and signatures to register the names as commune reserved candidates of the CP in Daun Penh district.
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Read More ‘Cambodia is being victimised by biased human trafficking reporting’
While Cambodia is continuing to be heavily criticised and globally labelled as a hotbed for cross-border human trafficking, an Interior Ministry Secretary of State responsible for leading the combat against this form of international crime claimed in an exclusive interview with Khmer Times that the Kingdom, is being victimised by “biased reporting” by foreign media outlets and civil society and calls for more accuracy and evidence relating to all the attacks on the Kingdom’s so-called “incapability”.
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Read More Cambodian who threw shoe at billboard image of Hun Sen resettles in Canada
A Cambodian woman who sought political asylum in Thailand after she was arrested and jailed for throwing a shoe at a billboard that featured a photo of then-Prime Minister Hun Sen has arrived in Canada.
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Read More Ratanakiri Court Sentences Theng Savoeun, Two Others To Five Years Jail But Suspends It
Ratanakiri Provincial Court has sentenced Theng Savoeun, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community (CCFC), and two associates, Nhel Pheap and Thann Hach, to five years jail for “plotting and incitement”.
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