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, by EAR Sophal
On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over.
But what followed was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. During a brutal four-year rule, the communist-nationalist (…)
, by CHEN Heather
(CNN) — They are young and passionate about protecting Cambodia’s rich and ecologically fragile environment.
Their peaceful green campaigns have been championed by climate activist Greta Thunberg and in 2015, they successfully fought against a plan for a hydroelectric dam they claim would have (…)
, by EAR Sophal
A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023 at the age of 100, stood as a colossus of U.S. foreign policy. His influence on American politics lasted (…)
, by FLYNN Gerald
PHNOM PENH — Mother Nature Cambodia, one of the country’s most prominent environmental activism groups, was named one of Right Livelihood’s 2023 laureates on Sept. 28, making it the first group of Cambodians recognized in the award’s 43-year history.
Born out of a refusal from the Nobel (…)
While the price of sneakers has been going up, the wages of the Cambodian workers making them has been going down leaving them languishing well beneath the poverty line, according to new research released today from global women’s rights organisation, ActionAid and Cambodian labour rights (…)
, by LEANG Sok
As Hun Sen hands power to his son, could a new generation restore democratic norms?
Cambodia held a general election on 23 July, its seventh since parliamentary democracy was instituted in 1993. This time around, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won in a landslide, claiming 120 of (…)
, by HUANG Aria
On July 23, Cambodian will head to the polls, but there will be no surprises. Having eliminated opposition, Prime Minister Hun Sen is expected to cling to power. For workers, the Cambodian government’s continuing repression of the NagaWorld strike, and the arrest and sentencing of the union (…)
, by DAVIES Jack
Hun Sen’s economic achievements are unraveling and everyone’s getting hit.
It called itself “a nightclub that takes the Phnom Penh nightlife scene to the next level.” It was part-owned by the nephew of a well-connected tycoon, and according to its website, was only for “the most refined (…)
, by PAILLARD Denis
Cambodia has known twenty years of civil war: first, the coup d’état of Lon Nol against Sihanouk in 1970 (1970 - 1975), then the dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge (1975 - 1979), and then the Vietnamese occupation (1979 - 1989), which put an end to the Khmer Rouge regime, but Cambodia fell back (…)
, by NGIN Chanrith
• Two China-backed projects in Cambodia show that some can be far more effective than others and it’s not always easy to win people over
• For while a new motorway is proving popular, residents of Sihanoukville are unhappy at the high number of Chinese businesses
What kind of Chinese (…)
, by Asian Labour Review, PHALIN Ou Tep, SITHAR Chhim
The year-long struggle is not only about protecting workers from layoffs, but also the rights of workers to have a union and to protest injustice. ALR spoke to two key union leaders leading the fight.
In what has become the longest labour strike in recent Cambodian history, hundreds of (…)
, by SOKUNTHY Ros
Regardless of the fact that it is the twenty-first century, Cambodian working-class women’s lives and labour rights remain relatively poor and have continued to be exploited, particularly during economic and/or broader crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking back at the first two years of (…)
, by GERIN Roseanne
The groups issued the call in response to recent round-ups of striking NagaWorld casino workers.
Cambodian civil society groups, community organizations, and trade unions on Thursday accused governmental officials of sexually harassing female strikers and applying COVID prevention rules (…)
, by SOKHENG Pa, SORITHTHEAVY Keat
More than 300 trafficked Cambodian women were returned from China in the first nine months of the year, mostly after being scammed into marriages, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
It was more than double the total for all of 2020, said spokesperson Koy Kuong, adding that Cambodia’s (…)
, by BOPHA Phorn
Activists and rights groups say COVID-19 law is now being deployed by the government as another tool to further curtail freedoms.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Vorn Pao was distraught when one of his association’s workers was detained in May this year while collecting the names of families living (…)
, by HUTT David
Prime Minister intervenes to give workers a paltry $2 minimum wage rise that utterly fails to keep pace with inflation
Cambodia’s minimum wage for its vital garment workforce will increase to US$194 per month from January 2022, a meager $2 raise announced by the government on Tuesday after (…)
, by MACDONALD Sam
Despite a per-capita GDP of one-tenth of the EU’s, Cambodia has achieved a similar rate of vaccination — and a death rate 20 times lower.
From Europe to the Asia-Pacific, what looked like light at the end of the tunnel earlier this year has given way to rising infections and an uptick in (…)
, by Khy Sovuthy
Garment workers make up a large share of Cambodia’s COVID-19 cases, with some 1,673 workers from 206 factories having tested positive since the latest outbreak began in February, according to the Ministry of Labor. Additionally, more than 17,000 workers are in quarantine and being monitored (…)
(Bangkok) – The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today. These longstanding problems have worsened during the economic crisis resulting from (…)
The Cambodian authorities must redouble their efforts to thoroughly, independently and impartially investigate the disappearance of Thai dissident Wanchalearm Satsaksit and determine his fate and whereabouts, said Amnesty International today.
The 37-year old activist was abducted by unknown (…)
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