Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Human Rights Watch
(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 (...)
, by NACHEMSON Andrew
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 (...)
, by Al Jazeera
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 (...)
, by Collective
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 (...)
, by HOLMES Oliver
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 (...)
, by GILLISON Douglas
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 (...)
, by GILLISON Douglas
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 (...)
, by MACAN-MAKAR Marwaan
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 (...)
, by FULLBROOK David
Cambodia, wracked first by a terrible reign of terror and then by corruption, is starting to look alive.
For one of the world’s poorest countries, Cambodia certainly seems to have a lot of Lexus SUVs these days. Bicycles, once rare, are becoming common, a sign that even the poorest are scraping (...)
, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
There has been a heavy history of US interference during the past 50 years in Cambodia. After the independence, in 1953, the Republican Eisenhower administration started, by all means, a campaign against neutral and nonaligned Cambodia. From 1953 till 1958, intimidations and threats, subversion (...)
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