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As in other countries, COVID-19 has not only shaken Cambodia’s health system, it has also exposed the underlying flaws in the country’s current economic model, which are resulting in livelihood crises for many people. The economic impacts of the pandemic are severe on the working-classes and (...)
Human rights groups ratchet up pressure on the Cambodian government after Sum Moeun vanished without a trace.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Two months ago, Sum Moeun was last seen being beaten up by Cambodian soldiers following his arrest over an ongoing land dispute with an agro-industrial company. (...)
When dusk falls over the city, the diggers roars to life. The small team of workers laying the base of the 46-storey Morgan Tower in Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich (or Diamond Island, one of Cambodia’s largest real estate projects) had been waiting all day for the mud to dry after unseasonable rain. On (...)
Proponent of sanctions charged with incitement days after PM Hun Sen warned critics to flee if EU revoked trade deal.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - An outspoken opposition member and proponent of sanctions against Cambodia was arrested and charged with “incitement”, just days after Prime Minister Hun (...)
Bloc says big increase in imports of Indica rice from two countries caused financial damage to European producers.
The European Commission has reinstated duties on rice from Cambodia and Myanmar for three years after determining that imports were causing economic damage to European producers. (...)
Hun Sen’s crackdown possible due to support of a cadre of ‘dangerous men’, says Human Rights Watch.
Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has become a “fully fledged military dictator” according to Human Rights Watch in a report released on Thursday investigating the extent of his personal control over (...)
Phnom Penh Post was seen as last bastion of independence in media under fire from PM.
For 30 years Aun Pheap reported on corruption, human rights abuses, elections and political scandals for every major newspaper in Cambodia, a job he felt he was born to do. Now, like so many journalists who (...)
Statement on Cambodia
22 November 2017 We, the undersigned civil society organizations, members of social/people’s movements, academia, and individuals express our deepest concerns over the deterioration of the relationship between the Cambodian Government and Cambodia civil society and (...)
“We, 164 families, have been faced with drought, insects and worms that are destroying our crops and that led to a lesser yield; the harvested yields are sold at a low price on the market,” reads the letter of families affected by the rice price crisis to the Phnom Penh Post. These families (...)
“Last night I heard the Prime Minister said he never heard about community land conflicts, so I want to send a message to the Prime Minister that my community has a land conflict with the company KDC International. We want the company to stop building the wall; we want the government to order (...)
Family owned Cambodia
’Stranglehold’: Hun Sen rules Cambodia and his family own it, says report
Relatives of autocratic PM control economy’s most profitable sectors from mining to gambling and property, according to findings of Global Witness project.
A transparency watchdog has alleged a (...)
A LabourStart campaign in Partnership with IndustriALL, UNI Global Union, the International Trade Union Confederation, the Cambodia Labour Confederation, and Workers United.
This campaign is in solidarity with Cambodian garment workers and unions, who initiated a general strike seeking an (...)
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian garment workers will be paid wages and severance owed to them after two months of protest.
Just two days after 82 workers launched a hunger strike on the sidewalk in front of a Walmart supplier in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, companies that supply to Walmart and H&M agreed (...)
Below is a signature campaign for individual signatures posted by the Asian TNCs Monitoring Network. To sign, you can click the link and add your signature/name. To: Prime Minister, Mr Hun Sen, Office of the Prime Minister Mr. Ang Vong Vathna, Minister of Justice Mr. Sar Kheng, Minister of (...)
Workers unfairly terminated for trade union organizing at the five star Angkor Village Hotel and Angkor Village Botanical Resort Hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, are fighting for their rights, their jobs and their union - and need your support.
The IUF-affiliated Cambodian Tourism and Service (...)
[Photo: Trade union representatives use the comic to blame the Nagacorp (3913.HK) for laying off union leaders.]
Chen Lip Keong is a Malaysian business tycoon with a keen interest in investing in Cambodia, where he is an economic advisor to the Prime Minister himself. Besides exploiting (...)
The government is using the fiction of slum clearance to grab land from the poor
Just a stone’s throw away from Cambodia’s National Assembly in Phnom Penh, a fading billboard trumpets an urban renewal campaign promising to transform 100 poor communities into thriving neighborhoods within a year. (...)
Cambodia’s once-abundant natural resources, whose timber reserves already were stripped to fund its disastrous civil war, are ripe for more exploitation. Saddled with a weak and often corrupt government, it is now in danger of seeing its mineral rights looted, as even officials charged with (...)
A tiny but influential French-language newspaper closes in Phnom Penh amid allegations of political conflict of interest.
A staple of Cambodia’s post-Khmer Rouge press may well have died this month after it carried a story on corruption and environmental destruction that veered too close to the (...)
If (they) come to Cambodia, I will hit them until their heads are broken," a government official told a local newspaper o n Tuesday.
The speaker happens to be Hun Neng, brother of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, and currently governor of Kompong Cham Province. The targets he has in mind for (...)
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