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Firstly, let us welcome home the 40 Sarawakians, three Sabahans, three from Selangor and one from Kuala Lumpur after the state government and the ...

The Trump administration's campaign to topple the government of Venezuela raises the issue of whether the U.S. government is willing to adhere to the same ...

KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Feb — The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry is studying the best mechanism to address the issue of child sex ...

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7 calls for universal electrification by 2030. We are going to start this article by saying something ...

The controversial Information Technology management bill tabled at the parliament last week has raised several concerns about what this means for social ...

The Thai government will waiver re-entry visas for Cambodian workers from April 5 to April 30. This is to facilitate their return after crossing the Cambodia-Thai ...

Sarawak Assistant Urban Planning, Land Administration and Environment Minister Len Talif Salleh (centre) at the press conference for the Sarawak Career and ...

Plan International Cambodia “Our policies and procedures always ensure that the welfare of children comes first”

English Situation Report on Cambodia about Disaster Management, Education, Children and more; published on 22 Feb 2019 by WFP.

Cambodian beach town in China's grip. Locals are being swept aside as Sihanoukville swells with Chinese and their investments.

JAKARTA: A global money-laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), will place Cambodia on its watchlist on Friday (Feb 22) because of ...

Aid groups fear money will be diverted from the aid budget, risking doors 'closing to us in Asia'

Sin Chew Daily. It has been reported that 47 Malaysians were recently lured by high-paying jobs in Cambodia but were detained by the local police upon arrival ...

The government has announced it will form a committee in preparation for the construction of a new international airport in Kandal province, a step forward in the ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) “acting president” Sam Rainsy on Wednesday claimed his notorious wager with Prime Minister Hun Sen over the fate ...

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, will lead a top-ranking delegation on a state visit to Cambodia on Monday and ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday that factory workers will have access to legal representation free of charge once his volunteer group of his ...

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Follow their travels from Angkor Wat to the floating village.

A commission has been established to supervise the development of a $1.5-billion airport that will serve the Cambodian capital. On Monday, Prime Minister Hun ...

Withdrawing Cambodia's EBA privileges might not do more harm than good.

For nearly 20 years, the Prey Lang forest that spans four Cambodian provinces has been shrinking. What started as a relative trickle in 2000 was on a serious ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Wednesday said the Japanese government had provided the Kingdom with $134.38 ...

The government of Cambodia and the international community have reacted strongly towards the European Union's warning on Monday that they are now ...

Editor's Note: Former diplomats, researchers, and human rights activists gathered recently at the University of Melbourne, Australia, for the book launch of ...

PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A rising number of Cambodian women are being sold as brides in China but complaints and convictions are on ...

In a Facebook posting, the US embassy in Phnom Penh calls CNRP leader Kem Sokha an innocent man held on unjust charges.

The EU has given Cambodia 12 months to implement reforms or face losing its access to a preferential trade scheme thought to be vital to the economy.

KUCHING, Feb 19 — Police have identified a Sarawakian man suspected to be involved in a syndicate that conned 47 Malaysians to work in Cambodia only to ...

A website called *Fresh* News has become one of the country's most useful sources of political misinformation and propaganda in Cambodia.

Chairman Lee from a peace NGO HWPL visits Cambodia to advocate peace with the Great Supreme Patriarch of Kingdom of Cambodia, Ministry of Education, ...

KUCHING, Feb 18 — The Sarawak Division of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) today called on the state government to priority to improving ...

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian government has thanked Cambodia over the release of 47 Malaysians who were detained in the country since December last ...

The Cambodian government on Thursday received $7.66 million from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund 2018 to implement 19 projects.

KUCHING: THE 47 Malaysians detained in a prison in Banteay Mancheay, Cambodia, are treated well, with the head of the prison using his own money to ...

Cambodia must work during the next 18 months to destroy the opposition party at the local level before European Union trade sanctions come into effect, Prime ...

Cambodia on Tuesday slammed what it called an “unjust decision” by the European Union to launch proceedings that could see its preferential access to the ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian NGO has held talks with the Cambodian government to help secure the release of the 47 Malaysians imprisoned in Poi Pet, ...

The EU has begun the process to suspend the preferential trade arrangements accorded to Cambodia after finding systematic human rights violations.

PHNOM PENH-Survivors of acid attacks in Cambodia are being denied free government treatment that they are legally entitled to, Human Rights Watch says.

Cambodia's foreign policy has seen remarkable improvements after 1993 when the country held its UN-organized national election. The Cambodian ...

A government official on Thursday criticised a report which ranked Cambodia as “not free”, saying it concentrated only on the political aspects while ignoring the ...

KUCHING: Mother of six, Zunita Sedini is seeking the government's help bring home her eldest son Yusuf Islam together with 46 other Malaysians detained by ...

KUCHING: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is expected to assist 47 youngsters who are victims of recent human-trafficking in Cambodia. According to Julau ...

The deputy president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Mu Sochua, has written to the EU about alleged threats against ...

The Ministry of Environment has dismissed “rumours” that the current chronic smog gripping Thai capital Bangkok will spread to Cambodia, saying that, unlike its ...

Survivors of acid attacks in Cambodia are being denied free government treatment that they are legally entitled to, Human Rights Watch says. Its report focused ...

Cambodia's government on Friday denied reports that the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) plans to amend the constitution to allow China to build a ...

A court in Cambodia's capital on Friday ordered a member of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) detained pending a bail hearing ...

Cambodia is among the 41 states whose human rights records are under scrutiny at the ongoing 32nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council's ...

Claims of threats to the country's sovereignty are vastly exaggerated and miss the broader point about how foreign economic relations work.

THE Office of the UN Resident Coordinator expressed concern on Thursday that some migrants working in Thailand are not enrolled in public health insurance ...

The Cambodian government on Friday strongly urged Singaporean outlet Channel News Asia (CNA) to issue a correction to an article it published on Thursday, ...

Following an announcement by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday that sub-national administrations will soon be streamlined, a government spokesman told The ...

Prek Achi Commune families send kids to South Korea, where about 54000 Cambodians have found jobs that pay well.

Cambodia's strongman leader Hun Sen on Thursday called on his country's military to "destroy" opponents if the government comes under threat, in a tirade i.

Cambodia's Interior Ministry has received a warrant to arrest acting president of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy upon ...

The protesters demanded the release of jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha and the reinstatement of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday took aim at some politicians and media outlets for using the terms “Phnom Penh regime” and “Hun Sen regime” instead ...

On January 9, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered that diplomatic passports issued to foreign nationals should be collected and reviewed.

Cambodia's Hun Sen at a 7 January ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime (Photo: Tang Chhin Sothy via Getty) ...

UPDATED at 1:25 P.M. EST on 2019-01-09. At least two senior officials from Cambodia's opposition who were barred from politics said they will seek a “pardon” ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's strongman leader Hun Sen lashed out at Western governments for pushing "democracy and human rights" on his country, ...

Twenty years since collapse of ultra-communist movement, policy hailed by Cambodia PM for ending war back in spotlight.

Cambodia's government will host the start of a three-day celebration marking the 20-year anniversary of the end of civil war. The event, beginning Dec.

The government on Friday responded to comments made by Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticising Cambodia national football team coach Keisuke Honda's ...

The prime minister refuses to speak to an RFA reporter, accusing the international broadcaster of bias against him.

A new group of more than 40 deportees, many of them the children of refugees, will be the largest yet to be ejected by the Trump administration.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has denied and expressed regret over accusations made by the Cambodia Daily that it was ...

(New York) – The Cambodian government's revocation of a repressive regulation on nongovernmental organizations should jump-start genuine efforts to repeal ...

The Cambodian government said Tuesday that Radio Free Asia is welcome to reopen its office in the capital Phnom Penh, asserting that no pressure had been ...

Cambodia's parliament is reviewing a five-year ban on more than 100 members of the main opposition party, which could allow them to return to politics, ...

PHNOM PENH -- The Khmer Rouge tribunal will on Friday announce whether two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are guilty of genocide -- a verdict.

More than 2,000 ethnic Vietnamese living on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake will be evicted from their floating homes, with many moved to settlements on land in ...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith has been refused permission by Cambodia's government to meet and speak with detained ...

Cambodian political commentator Kim Sok arrived safely in Finland with his daughter on Friday after gaining political asylum following weeks of hiding in ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian authorities are planning to "strictly control" the activities of potential critics of the regime, as Prime Minister Hun Sen ai.

ANZ Bank failed to meet its own human rights standards when it financed a Cambodian sugar plantation that was linked to forced evictions, child labour and ...

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne has thanked the Cambodian government for the release of Australian film maker and convicted spy James ...

William Heidt, the US ambassador, told VOA Khmer that he hoped Cambodia would move towards a more “open” political system in the coming year.

Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) is extending its influence into Australia by recruiting students who come here to study, often on scholarships ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia's imprisoned opposition leader was freed on bail Sunday night after spending a year locked up on charges of treason ...

Cambodia's lawmakers on Thursday voted in a new parliamentary leadership and government, led by Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party, after a ...

Daughter says the health of the 69-year-old Australian, who was sentenced to six years jail, is failing and he could die in prison.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian political analyst said on Monday he has fled the country after receiving threats since his release from a 1-1/2 year ...

An Australian filmmaker has been sentenced by a Cambodian court to six years in prison on charges of spying for an unnamed country. James Ricketson, 69 ...

Cambodia released 14 government critics on Tuesday, in a move by Prime Minister Hun Sen that some observers say is aimed at appeasing foreign criticism of ...

Mark Field, UK Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, is visiting Cambodia today (22 August) for meetings with the Cambodian government and members of ...

The re-election of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen contributes to the growing global democratic crisis. Here's why.

Prime minister Hun Sen wants it both ways: He wants to claim a democratic mantle but doesn't want to deal with the pesky competition that comes with a ...

Cambodia's ruling party announced Tuesday that it will form a new government within two months, according to media reports, as criticism continued to mount ...

It's been 25 years since the UN tried to bring democracy to war-ravaged Cambodia. Is that dream dead?

Cambodia's U.N.-led democratic experiment is expected to receive a crushing blow Sunday, as the country goes to the polls in an election all but engineered to ...

Next week's Cambodian elections are not a contest between parties — they are a vote on the legitimacy of the election itself.

Is corruption among Cambodia's ruling party elite reaching all the way to Australia?

PHNOM PENH -- The Cambodian government is taking no chances on being challenged at the polls this month, having extended its media crackdown to social.

Cyberattackers have been caught hacking key Cambodian government institutions in what is strongly believed to be a coordinated Chinese government attack ...

Cambodia's media has under come increasing pressure after the closure of one independent newspaper and sale of another.

PHNOM PENH — The United States has been busy in Cambodia these past few months, if Hun Sen's government is to be believed. Between trying to overthrow ...