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Read More Inside Cambodia's cyber-scam centres, where workers are victims of human trafficking
It’s happened to us all: a message arrives on our phone that looks genuine but turns out to be a scam. The internet has enabled scammers worldwide to find and contact potential victims. In Southeast Asia, the problem has reached alarming proportions and generates billions of dollars. FRANCE 24's William de Tamaris, Aruna Popuri and Justin McCurry report from Cambodia and the Myanmar border. Warning: this report contains graphic content.
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Read More The son almost rises: Cambodia's Hun Sen the power behind throne
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet kept a low profile at the ASEAN summit in Vientiane, holding meetings on the sidelines with fellow leaders but making no public statements to the media. An ex-military man, he marched straight past waiting reporters as he arrived for summit sessions, his most animated moment a jovial conversation with Singapore's foreign minister. However, crackdowns on rivals and critics of the government have not let up. Mech Dara, an award-winning journalist known for reporting on human trafficking in the cyber scam industry, was arrested last month on charges of inciting social disorder.
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Read More EU Ambassador highlights common grounds and disagreements in Cambodia ties
As he has just passed his first year leading a diplomatic mission in Cambodia, the European Union Ambassador to the Kingdom, in an exclusive interview with Khmer Times, said that the bloc shares many values and beliefs with Cambodia on the international stage, but the two parties still have to settle their disagreements resulting from their differences to bring the ties to higher levels.
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Read More Southeast Asia’s war on dissent captured in Malaysia-Cambodia extradition
The image was meant to send a stark message: criticise Hun Sen and you will be punished, even if you’re not in Cambodia. Nuon Toeun appears front and centre in the photograph released by Cambodia authorities, handcuffed and flanked by armed guards outside a Phnom Penh prison. Her crime? Making a social media post critical of the strongman leader who ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for decades before stepping down last year in favour of his son, Hun Manet.
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Read More Cambodian trade union leader Chhim Sithar, released from prison: “We must keep speaking out and uniting for our rights”
Chhim Sithar believes that the primary aim of the redundancies was to weaken the LRSU’s influence within the company. The union was on the verge of representing half of the casino’s employees, which, under Cambodian law, would have allowed it to participate in annual collective bargaining. In response to the dismissals, Sithar led a series of demonstrations calling for the reinstatement of the terminated employees. These protests were among the largest Cambodia had witnessed in a decade, and continued until Sithar was arrested in January 2022.
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Read More Nine Opposition Officials Questioned For Breach of Trust Over May’s Election Candidate List
Kandal provincial court prosecutor summoned nine opposition parties officials, including Candlelight President Teav Vannol and Senator Sok Hach of Khmer Will Party to be questioned for alleged breach of trust. It is in connection with a disagreement over a candidate list’s rank number during the May provincial, municipal and district council level elections. Provincial court spokesperson Kha Denna confirmed that deputy prosecutor Va Sakada summoned them for questioning but said the case was still under investigation.
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Read More Asics Said It Helped Remedy Labor Abuse in Cambodia. Activists Disagree.
Labor advocates have poked holes at Asics’s claims that a prosecuted and jailed union leader at one of its Cambodian suppliers was reinstated to his former position following the overturning of his conviction—which would have seen him imprisoned for a year—and that factory management had nothing to do with the criminal charges that led to his arrest in the first place.
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Read More Cambodia, New Zealand to boost various areas of cooperation
The Prime Ministers of Cambodia and New Zealand have discussed and agreed to promote severalpotential areas of cooperation, including education, agriculture, energy, trade, and people-to-people exchanges. In their meeting in Vientiane yesterday, on the sidelines of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits, Cambodian Premier Hun Manet and Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, expressed their willingness to further boost trade between the two countries.
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Read More Courts resolve over 130,000 cases as campaign picks up steam
The committee overseeing a government campaign to expedite court case resolutions and address irregularities has continued to urge the public to file complaints, should they believe their cases involve irregularities or delays. The Ministry of Justice made the appeal in an October 11 press release, which provided an update on the results of the current campaign to accelerate case resolutions and address irregularities in courts. The campaign is being personally led by Minister of Justice Koeut Rith.
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Read More NA to host 11th Plenary Session of IPTP in Phnom Penh
The National Assembly is set to host the 11th Plenary Session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) in Phnom Penh from November 23 to 26. Under the main theme “A Quest for Peace, Reconciliation, and Tolerance,” the gathering will focus on two sub-themes: “Advancing the Global Architecture of Peace, Peacebuilding, Reconciliation, and Tolerance: Synergy of Governments, Parliaments, and Civil Society,” and “Solidifying Multilateralism, Cooperation, and Partnership for Coexistence and Inclusive Connectivity.”
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Read More Baby trafficking syndicates in Cambodia recruiting Filipinos
Cambodian police have rescued 20 Filipino women who were allegedly trafficked into the country to be used as surrogate mothers in a baby trafficking ring. Of the 20, at least 13 are pregnant and are currently receiving care at a local hospital, while the remaining seven are set to be repatriated, according to the Philippine Embassy in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, October 8. The embassy issued the statement in response to a report by the Cambodia-based Khmer Times on the same day that details the involvement of an unnamed Philippine agency in bringing Filipino women to Cambodia to serve as surrogate mothers, despite the country’s ban on surrogacy.
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Read More Cambodia’s communities partner with USAID for conservation grants
The essential elements of each grant include enhancing the institutional capacity of CBOs, improving local livelihoods, engaging in carbon financing projects and conserving community-managed ecosystems. Eight local communities have signed small grants agreements (SGAs) with the USAID Conserve project to build capacity, improve community livelihoods and preserve natural resources on the Tonle Sap and in wildlife sanctuaries. The small-scale direct grants are provided because these communities serve as the front line in safeguarding protected areas, which play a vital role in conserving wildlife and natural resources. Providing direct grants to community-based organisations (CBOs) is the foundation of USAID Conserve’s approach to locally led environmental conservation and community development, according to USAID Conserve on Tuesday, October 8.
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Read More Internet users in Kingdom surge to 20 million
Cambodia has 20 million internet subscribers both mobile and fixed as of June, an increase of 16.6 million registered in 2020, the year of pandemic, a report of the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia showed on Wednesday. The report stated that mobile internet users increased to 21.9 million, up 5.2 percent from 20.8 million recorded in 2020.
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Read More Pailin Police Chief Investigated for Allegedly Falsifying Casino Death Autopsy
The Ministry of Interior and National Military Police are investigating Pailin Provincial Police Chief Seng Sokun and his department for allegedly falsifying an autopsy report and releasing suspects in the death of a Chinese man. The revelations come from previously undisclosed reports shared by a prominent Facebook commentator with a history of incendiary remarks.
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Read More Bribery Allegations Brought by Hun Sen Prompt Dismissal of District Governor
On Tuesday, October 8, the government issued a sub-decree terminating Korn Sokkay from his position as governor of Lvea Em district, Kandal province. The decision follows a day after Senate President Hun Sen wrote on Facebook that Ly Sameth, a longtime advisor to him and who helped secure Sokkay’s appointment, solicited bribes in exchange for favors and government positions.
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Read More Cambodian authorities reject OCCRP allegations
Senior officials from the Ministry of Interior (MOI) have dismissed allegations made by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in a report titled “Criminals May Benefit As Cambodia Hides New Citizenship Data.”
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Read More Phnom Penh Court Hears Human Rights Defender Koet Saray’s Case, Lawyer Calls For His Acquittal
Khmer Students Intelligent League Association (KSILA) president Koet Saray denied incitement charges to commit a felony with regards to a land conflict in Preah Vihear province, according to an NGO which attended his court hearing on Wednesday. Phnom Penh Municipal Court presiding judge San Bunthoeun said the date for the verdict has not been scheduled but would announce it later.
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Read More RFA, a radio-station spreading lies
Why return to this case? Because this is not the first time, far from it, that this radio station has spread lies and deceived its listeners. A careful review of the news broadcast by this radio shows that lying appears to be the raison d’être of the so-called journalists who work there. They do not produce information, they produce lies. To be precise: they reproduce lies.
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Read More Cambodia: journalist arrest signals false dawn for democracy as the country slides into authoritarianism
Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian journalist and one of the kingdom’s last remaining independent media voices, was arrested on Monday, September 30. He has been detained over a social media post for “incitement to disturb social security”, and faces up to two years in jail. The news of Dara’s arrest has saddened and disturbed many within Cambodia and elsewhere. But it will have shocked few. Dara’s courageous journalism has made him a persistent thorn in the side of Cambodia’s ruling class.
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Read More Lvea Em district governor dismissed after $300,000 fraud scandal
Prime Minister Hun Manet has dismissed Kan Sokkhay from his position as Lvea Em district governor in Kandal province after he was cheated by Oknha Ly Samet, to whom he paid $300,000 in an attempt to secure the position of Arey Ksat town governor. In a sub-decree dated October 8, Manet stated that Sokkhay was removed from office due to “serious ethical and professional misconduct, in violation of the Civil Service Statute of the Kingdom of Cambodia”.
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