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Read More ‘I am afraid I will kill myself, like my husband’: spotlight on loan firms in Cambodia after Indigenous suicides
Microfinance was meant to reduce poverty, but borrowers allege they have been victims of ‘predatory’ loans and repayment tactics, which have led to desperation and deaths
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Read More Cambodian Kidney Transplant Victims Stranded in India Plead For PM Hun Manet’s Intervention
Eighteen kidney transplant patients, who are stranded in India after being cheated by Phnom Penh-based Metro RLV Polyclinic, which allegedly absconded with $1 million paid by them, are pleading with Prime Minister Hun Manet to intervene in their case.
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Read More Giant Ibis Union’s Fight Remains as the Company Goes Back on Promise
Living in a small concrete house with his wife and two young children, one kilometer away from Takhmao Bridge, ex-Giant Ibis Transportation employee Or Chanthy, 45, contemplates life’s challenges.
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Read More Adviser linked to infamous acid attack named to national image panel
A top government adviser whose wife has long been suspected in an infamous acid attack on his teenage lover will oversee a committee that will promote positive news coverage of Prime Minister Hun Manet’s government.
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Read More Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt
Kum Sreymom, a Cambodian rice farmer, talks shop with other farmers. They’re sitting in the shade of a farm shed on the vast flood plains of Tonle Sap, Cambodia’s great lake.
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Read More Cambodian Court Sentences Opposition Figure to 3 Years Prison
A leading Cambodian opposition politician has been sentenced to another three years in prison after being convicted on two charges of incitement, the latest sign that the political climate will remain chilly under the new-look government headed by Prime Minister Hun Manet.
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Read More Cambodian govt nixes party application twice, with no clear reason
They’re trying to form a new political party, but the Cambodian government won’t hear of it.
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Read More Phnom Penh Court Sentences Candlelight Leader Thach Setha to Three Years Jail for Incitement
Candlelight Party leader Thach Setha was found guilty of incitement by Phnom Penh Municipality Court judge Chhun Davy on Wednesday. Setha was sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine of four million riel for making “critical comments” over the January 7 anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.
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Read More Justice minister urges focus on legal and judicial reform
Minister of Justice Koeut Rith calls on court and prosecutor’s office leaders as well as judicial and law enforcement officials at all levels to prioritise “legal and judicial reform”. He also called upon civil society organisation (CSOs) to endorse this initiative.
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Read More Cambodia’s garment, footwear, travel goods exports down 17.8 per cent in first nine months
Cambodia exported US$8.14 billion worth of garment, footwear and travel products to international markets in the first nine months of 2023, down 17.8 percent from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce has announced.
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Read More Five Cambodian Elections
Scottish-born Gordon Conochie, an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne, has just released his book, “A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy,” an honest look at the elections that the Southeast Asian nation has held over the last two decades.
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Read More Environmental activists wait to hear from ministry on travel appeal
Cambodian environmental activists who petitioned the Ministry of Justice to be allowed to travel to Sweden to receive an award have yet to hear if top government officials will intervene in their case.
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Read More Thailand arrests 1,000 migrant workers including 400 Cambodians
Thai authorities arrested about 1,000 construction workers in the central province of Ayutthaya, at least 400 of whom are undocumented Cambodians, for working illegally, Radio Free Asia has learned.
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Read More Environmental and Land Activists Freed, As Opposition Party Calls for The Release of All Political Prisoners
The Regional Court of Appeal has dropped the charges against activist Chhorn Phalla in Ratanakiri province last week for allegedly clearing state forest land, as opposition party Candlelight urged the new government to release its party members and other prisoners of conscience, who were allegedly detained on politically motivated charges.
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Read More Garment exports decline amid global slowdown
Cambodia's textile, garment, footwear and clothing exports have seen a sharp decline in the first nine months of the year, a trend attributed largely to falling global demand, particularly in the EU and US markets, the Ministry of Commerce reported.
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Read More Three Minority Parties Form Alliance with Candlelight Party
Opposition party Candlelight has formed an alliance with minority parties Khmer Will Party, Grassroots Democratic Party and Cambodia Reform Party, three parties which failed to secure any seats, to challenge the ruling party’s dominance in the National Assembly in the upcoming elections.
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Read More Cambodian would-be teacher files complaint after attack
A Cambodian man who was expelled from a state-run school because he was too short has filed a complaint with the Ministry of Interior over the beating he received from security guards during a protest earlier this week.
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Read More Communities track a path of destruction through a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary
Sometime after 10 a.m. on Friday, April 21, sweat poured down the face of veteran environmental activist San Mala as he crawled through the forest undergrowth, some 16 kilometers (10 miles) deep in the heart of Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Cambodia.
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Read More Cambodian man beaten for second time in protest of school expulsion
A 20-year-old Cambodian man who was thrown out of a state-run school because he was too short has again been assaulted by security forces as he staged another protest against his expulsion.
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Read More Cambodia’s Candlelight Party forms alliance with 3 smaller parties
Cambodia’s opposition Candlelight Party announced it will join with three smaller parties in a political alliance that will aim to field candidates in the 2027 local commune elections and the 2028 general election.
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