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Read More Sihanoukville property owners in limbo as unfinished high-rises litter the city
In 2018, Kheav Sothanny leased his 600 square meters of land in central Sihanoukville to a Chinese investor to build a 14-storey condo. The contract offered him a rental fee of $20,000 a month.
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Read More PM thanks relocated settlers for safeguarding Angkor Park
During the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of two new flyovers in Phnom Penh at the Monivong site on August 31, Prime Minister Hun Sen thanked those who had agreed to move from the Angkor Archaeological Park.
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Read More Military Locks Down Politician’s Doomsday Farmstead
Soldiers have blocked the road into politician Khem Veasna’s Siem Reap farmstead, where thousands of worshippers gathered to avoid an apocalyptic flood that Veasna claimed he had now prevented with his chakra.
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Read More Cambodia will study suggestions by UN rights envoy that prisoners be granted more time in the yard and with family
The Government is taking cognizance of the reforms for prisons proposed by UN human rights envoy Vitit Muntarbhorn, who has suggested that prisoners be granted more access to their families and be allowed to spend more time in the open.
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Read More Should Cambodia Ban Casinos?
To quickly answer the question posed in my headline: not yet. But the Cambodian government needs to at least put this possibility on the table, to set a fire under the feet of the casino owners. A statement must be made by Phnom Penh that casinos have less than 12 months to turn the current dire situation around. If they fail, then regular gambling should go the way of online gambling, which Prime Minister Hun Sen banned in 2019.
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Read More A Message from the Underprivileged: Don’t Give up, Follow your Dreams
Some students seem to have that little spark inside them, encouraging them to study hard, even though their families do not have enough money. In Siem Reap province, young people who receive scholarships from a local organization are gradually finding a glimmer of hope despite not being given the best chances at the start.
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Read More CP commune deputy chief fined $1,250 for defaming CPP
In a defamation suit filed by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the National Election Committee (NEC) has ordered Sok Srey Nuon, the second deputy head of Preah Theat commune from the Candlelight Party to pay a fine of $1,250 to the Tbong Khmum Provincial Election Commission (PEC) within 30 days.
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Read More Nationalists Petition Against Vietnamese Language Department
A small group of youth activists submitted a petition to the Education Ministry asking it to cancel the formation of a Vietnamese language department at the Royal University of Phnom Penh’s Institute of Foreign Languages.
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Read More Midnight Deadline for Devotees to Leave From End of the World
Thousands of worshippers of politician Khem Veasna who are gathered at his farmstead for a prophesied apocalypse have until midnight to disperse, authorities said, but the political party argued it had asked for permission to continue for a month.
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Read More ‘Doomsday’ gathering told to disperse, or else
The enormous crowd gathered at a farm house south of Kulen Mountain, who gravitated to the home after hearing a “doomsday message” from a local politician and believing the area to be a safehaven, were given an ultimatum by local authorities to disperse or face the consequences.
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Read More Ensuring Cambodians’ Mobility Amidst Rocketing Fuel Prices
As fuel prices soared over the past months, a spate of vehicle owners driving off without paying their gasoline bills has become a source of anger, disbelief and amusement for Cambodian social media users. But behind these scenes of fleeing drivers and disgruntled gas station attendants, lies the issue of unaffordable mobility, one that is strangling every citizen’s livelihood.
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Read More H&M Group, WWF team on AI solution to tackle Cambodia deforestation
The WoodAI, artificial intelligence (AI) application, a collaboration on innovative tech development between H&M Group and WWF in Cambodia, has been launched to support garment and textile factories reduce their potential contribution to deforestation.
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Read More Interior Ministry Denies CNRP Activists Beaten at Tbong Khmum Prison
An Interior Ministry official has denied that imprisoned former CNRP activists, who were transferred to a Tbong Khmum prison this month, were beaten in prison as alleged by family members.
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Read More NEC agrees to meet with four parties on proposed reforms
The National Election Committee (NEC) has agreed to meet with representatives from four political parties – Grassroots Democratic (GDP), Khmer Will (KWP), Cambodia Reform (CRP) and Candlelight (CP) – on August 31 to discuss their proposals for electoral reforms.
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Read More Thousands of Khem Veasna Devotees to Head Home Unless World Ends
Thousands of people are estimated to have gathered at a politician’s farm in Siem Reap to avoid world disaster — but are expected to be sent home tomorrow unless flooding swallows Earth.
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Read More Cambodia’s police, judiciary must be independent, rights groups say
Cambodian rights groups on Monday threw their support behind a recommendation of a U.N. monitor that the country do more to ensure the independence of its judiciary system.
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Read More Sihanoukville residents evicted after four charged with encroaching private land
Approximately 200 huts that officials say were built on privately owned land in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone were cleared Thursday morning as part of an ongoing land dispute in Preah Sihanouk province’s Stung Hav district.
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Read More UN special envoy sees shortcomings in Cambodia’s human rights and democratic reforms
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Cambodia Vitit Muntarbhorn has completed an 11-day first visit to Cambodia with a series of recommendations to improve the human rights situation, open up the civil and political space and pave the way for democratic reform, which the government deemed as “largely biased, prejudiced, and unfounded on a number of issues”.
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Read More Authorities Deny Detention, Torture After Launching Trafficking Raids
Authorities released details of several crackdowns on forced labor and human trafficking of foreigners that were reported to the Interior Ministry’s hotline, but a ministry spokesperson again denied foul play or forced labor at almost all raided compounds.
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Read More Youth Group Asks to Stop the Department of Vietnamese Studies
A youth group filed a petition to the Ministry of Education and the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), asking to halt the establishment of the Department of Vietnamese Studies. They say Vietnamese studies are unnecessary and may indirectly insert “Vietnam’s ideology” into the Cambodian people.
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