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Cambodian Microfinance Association issues clarifications on “misleading” comments made in YouTube documentary
The Cambodian Microfinance Association (CMA) has requested to correct the video “Debt Crisis in Cambodia”, which was published via popular YouTube channel “The Kanitha Show” on October 26, 2023.
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Workers in 39 suspended factories to get cash assistance
In line with government initiatives, cash handouts are being extended to displaced workers engaged in the garment sector at 39 factories specialising in textile, footwear, travel products and bags that have temporarily suspended their operations.
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No Likelihood of EBA’s Full Reinstatement For Now, Says EU Ambassador to Cambodia
There is no confirmation that the EU would fully reinstate its preferential scheme, Everything But Arms (EBA), for Cambodia, said newly-appointed EU ambassador to Cambodia Igor Driesmans, while identifying four priorities in his mandate.
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Counting on coal: Cambodia’s fossil fuel push flounders with delays
The skeletal exterior of one of the newest coal power plants in Cambodia sat silent amongst farmland in Oddar Meanchey.
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In Hun Manet’s Cambodia, It Is the Perception of Change That Matters
The vice of world politics is to judge a leader’s actions by their reputation, rather than the other way around.
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Cambodian court convicts opposition figures for Facebook comments
A Cambodian court on Tuesday sentenced exiled opposition leaders Sam Rainsy, Mu Sochua and 10 other activists to prison terms in a case connected to social media comments made in 2021.
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Will the World Bank’s IFC Uphold or Destroy Its Internal Watchdog’s Independence?
On July 28, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, is set to decide whether to empower its own accountability and oversight mechanism, or to undermine the mechanism’s credibility in the pursuit of predatory profits.
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Registration for 2023 voter list concludes with no issues
The National Election Committee (NEC) reported that the 2023 voter registration and verification process had proceeded smoothly over 19 days without any incidents of note.
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Daughter: Health of jailed Cambodian opposition official declining
The daughter of an opposition party official who was detained just after the July parliamentary elections said her father has grown seriously ill and needs outside treatment.
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Andrew Califf Seoung Nimol and Hel Komsan
Snang An, Kampong Thom – Dead fish and black water ran through the Por Roung river last year due to contamination upstream from an industrial Chinese-owned mine, residents of Snang An village say.
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CSOs, Political Parties Call for the Restoration of Democracy, Human Rights in line with Paris Peace Agreements
NGOs and political parties have called on the 18 signatories of the Paris Peace Agreements and Cambodian government to “restore democracy and respect human rights”.
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Hun Sen reflects on Paris Accords, ‘win-win’ policy
In a message coinciding with the 32nd anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreements, former Prime Minister Hun Sen, who now serves as head of the Supreme Privy Council to the King, recalled how his win-win policy eventually ended civil war in 1998, bringing about comprehensive peace and prosperity that he said has lasted until the present day.
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Should Cambodia preserve the Paris Peace Agreements?
Since Hun Manet became the country’s prime minister, there have been numerous discussions and hopes among Western and Cambodian scholars because Manet received his education in the democratic nations of the US and UK, which also have significant political and economic influences.
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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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