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Read More 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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Read More 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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Read More 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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Read More 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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Read More 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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Read More 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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Read More 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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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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