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Read More Opinion: Shame Around Premarital Sex Is Making Abortions More Dangerous
Abortions have been legal in Cambodia since 1997, but social, cultural and religious stigmas are still preventing women from accessing them in safe settings.
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Read More Power Line Markers Reveal Looming Path of Destruction in Prey Lang
“People don’t have land titles, it’s state land, so if they don’t give compensation, what can people do?”
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Read More Villagers take protest over long-running land dispute to Cambodian capital
More than 1,000 people from two Cambodian provinces staged a protest on Tuesday outside the Ministry of Justice in Phnom Penh, calling on the government to resolve a long-running dispute over land taken by politically connected businesspeople, sources in the country said.
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Read More Mother Denies Her Son Supported Khem Veasna Before Death
The mother of a 20-year-old who died by suicide on Monday denied a report that he had gone to politician Khem Veasna’s farm fearing the end of the world.
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Read More Preah Vihear’s Indigenous Patrollers Red Flag Preah Roka Logging
Indigenous community patrollers found around 250 cases of suspected deforestation at Preah Vihear’s Prey Preah Roka forest during two patrols in July and August, and are urging authorities to allow more patrols into the forest.
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Read More Three NagaWorld Strikers Accept Payout
Chhim Sithar, president of Labor Rights Supported by Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, said the company had a fraudulent strategy to cooperate with the Ministry of Labor to prolong the dispute, put economic pressure on employees and force them to accept illegal compensation.
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Read More Famers in Battambang Fear Unexploded Landmines
Hem Sophal, a 69-year-old farmer living in a small house with a perforated thatched roof located in Prek Chik village, Prek Chik commune, Rukkiri district, Battambang province, brought his family to live here in the early 1980s, shortly after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.
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Read More Authorities Say Situation Stable as Deadline Passes at Politician’s Doomsday Farm
A gathering to wait for the end of the world is effectively over even as around 1,000 supporters remain inside politician Khem Veasna’s farm, officials said.
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Read More Love Party in Limbo After Interior Ministry Rejects Acting President
The future of the Cambodia National Love Party is in limbo after the Interior Ministry refused to accept its single remaining permanent committee member as acting president due to violations of party bylaws.
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Read More REDD+ soon one-third of protected land
The government is aiming to boost the sale of carbon credits by expanding the scheme to all protected areas in Cambodia, according to Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra.
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Cambodian cult members leave ‘doomsday farm’
The number of people holding out at a ‘doomsday farm’ awaiting an apocalypse has fallen to about 1,000, from more than 20,000, as followers of a self-declared brahma (heavenly king) began leaving en masse as the deadline to disperse passed.
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Read More Four parties to approach NA again to discuss electoral reforms
The four opposition parties – Candlelight Party (CP), Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP), Khmer Will Party (KWP) and Reform Party (RP), said that National Assembly (NA) has refused to meet them to discuss their proposals for free and fair elections in the country, but they will approach the government again.
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Read More CPP: Campaign budget limit unjust
The rejection came after four political parties – Candlelight (CP), Grassroots Democratic (GDP), Cambodian Reform (CRP) and Khmer Will (KRP) – held a September 2 press conference suggesting that the changes would ensure transparency and equality during election campaign seasons.
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Read More People Appeal to Police to Locate Relatives Who May Be at Khem Veasna's Plantation in Siem Reap Province
Around 100 reports of missing persons have been filed with the police, their families believing they may be on the plantation of Khem Veasna, leader of the League for Democracy Party, in Siem Reap province’s Banteay Srei district.
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Read More The Ministry of Information Reports that Media Outlets and Fake News Have Increased while Freedom of the Press Remains
According to ministry spokesman Meas Sophorn who, on Sept. 1, held a press conference on the ministry’s activities, the ministry has issued over the last five years 2,154 licenses to media institutions for traditional and modern broadcast, and issued or renewed 1,033 press cards for journalists covering for national and international news outlets.
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Read More Timeline: Five Years Since Kem Sokha’s Arrest
Prosecutors during his recent treason trial have alleged that this was done at the behest of the U.S. hoping to spark a grassroots opposition movement. Voice of Democracy is started as a radio service as part of CCHR.
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Read More Disgraced ex-governor’s promotion called a ‘bad example’ for Cambodia
Unions and NGOs criticized Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government for promoting a former district governor convicted of shooting three female garment workers a decade ago to a senior position in the Interior Ministry.
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Read More Trigger-Happy Bandith Promoted Within Interior Ministry
Khieu Sopheak, a ministry spokesperson, said he did not know Bandith’s role in the ministry.
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Read More Appeal Court refuses to release human rights activist Seng Theary
Chak Sokpheap, executive director at CCHR, said she was not surprised Ms. Theary lost her appeal today.
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Read More 33 ex-CNRP lawmakers raring for politics after 5-year ban
After the Supreme Court banned 118 leaders of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) from engaging in political activity for five years in 2017, 33 former lawmakers have re-applied to engage in politics as the ban’s five-year term will expire next month.
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