Cambodia News: Khmer Krom

Photo courtesy of Voice of Kampuchea-Krom Radio. From 7 to 9 December 2018, UNPO Member the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) hosted its ...

Five people were injured when a bus flipped on its side after hitting the side barrier of a road in Koh Kong province's Koh Kong district.

UNPO releases the second issue of a series of newsletters dedicated to the ongoing struggle of the Khmer-Krom people. This newsletter contextualises the ...

On 12 October 2018, UNPO submitted a report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) concerning the continuous grave human rights ...

Waitsara Rungthong details her job as a protection officer in Thailand and her work in assisting refugees awaiting resettlement in another country.

The release of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Annual Report is always awaited with great expectation. With an ...

Ex-Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were given life sentences, including for genocide against ethnic Vietnamese and Cham Muslims, by ...

Phnom Penh Court sentences 4 Taiwanese and 25 Thais to between two and three years in jail for operating VoIP scams.

On Monday 5 November 2018, UNPO publishes a conference report following the event "Political & Economic Situation in Southeast Asia: the Case of the ...

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THE annual ox racing festival at Ro temple in Vietnam is a popular event for both locals and tourists. This year's edition, which took place on October 14-15, ...

Environment Minister urges people to use energy more efficiently and enjoy benefits such as lower costs and a greener environment.

Expected to be ratified late 2018 or early 2019, the European Union (EU)-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVTFA) aims at increasing bilateral trade and ...

The Cambodian government should immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for peacefully exercising their fundamental rights.

The Justice Ministry plans to draft a law on compensation for people wrongly imprisoned by court officials, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. In a dialogue ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday postponed the trial for five human rights defenders charged with bribing a witness to September 18 after several ...

Prominent land activist Tep Vanny has been reunited with her family after two years in jail and plans to continue her fight for displaced Boeng Kak villagers.

WorldBridge Arena, a shopping and entertainment complex built by the WorldBridge Group in Phnom Penh, will open to the public in November, with half of the ...

With Cambodia's economy showing no signs of slowing down and a building boom in full swing, local and international real estate developers are flocking to ...

Srun Srorn, a social media influencer and a peace activist, says it is high time that the spirit of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords be revived.

Today, Thursday 9 August 2018, is the 24th International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples since its creation by the United Nations in December 1994.

Vietnam's communists intensify control of internet . Laws curbing freedom of speech will impact Catholicism and other religions.

DAMASCUS (Xinhua) – At least 38 people were killed and 37 others wounded in a series of bombings and attacks that rocked government-held areas in the ...

Global Witness has called on the United States to impose sanctions against four Cambodian tycoons for their alleged roles in the demise of Cambodian ...

The European Union says they are considering the removal of Cambodia from its Everything-but-arms (EBA) trade scheme.

Representatives of the Kingdom's private sector this week urged the European Union not to cancel the Everything-but-arms (EBA) scheme in response to a ...

The Civil Society Forum has trained more than 1,000 observers to oversee the election process. In addition, the NEC had accredited more than 60,000 national ...

The international Co-prosecutors (ICPs) at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has issued a summary of their final statements in ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has lashed out at Human Rights Watch director Brad Adams that accused Cambodian 12 top military and police leaders of committing ...

Grassroots Democratic Party president Yeng Virak is positioning the GDP as the leader of change.

The US imposes financial sanctions against the commander of PM's bodyguard unit for his alleged involvement in human rights abuses.

Keo Samoeun has helped construct dozens of buildings throughout Phnom Penh. In the past, he repaired villas damaged during the Khmer Rouge era and he is ...

On 2 June 2018, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) together with the Khmers Kampuchea-Khrom Federation (KKF) convened a ...

A mass religious ceremony commemorating the absorption of Kampuchea Krom to Vietnam in 1949.

A deal with Australia to resettle refugees from Nauru island comes to an end in August.

The Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) organise a one-day international ...

On the occasion of the anniversary of the cession of the disputed Kampuchea-Krom land to Vietnam in 1949, nearly 2000 Buddhist monks will gather to ...

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Investigating judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, Ky Rithy, summoned eight more witnesses in the trial of jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha, who ...

Anthony Galliano, group chief executive officer of Cambodian Investment Management, talks to Khmer Times about the recent sale of the Phnom Penh Post that ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged everyone to practice safe sex amid a rise in HIV transmission. Mr Hun Sen told garment workers in Kampong Speu province ...

The National Bank of Cambodia on Tuesday warned the public of the dangers of low-interest loans being offered by unscrupulous companies.

Growing anti-Vietnamese sentiment is behind a five day protest that is due to start in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, this weekend.

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Prime Minister Hun Sen has welcomed the National Election Committee for beginning to register candidates from political parties to contest the election in July ...

The US State Department has published its annual report on human rights across the globe, describing a year of shrinking freedoms and rights violations in ...

A total of 43 Cambodian citizens who were convicted of crimes in the US arrived yesterday in the Kingdom. A senior immigration police officer said that all 43 ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summonsed several prominent members of the Cambodia National Rescue Movement to appear in a case that alleges a ...

International NGOs declare support to Cambodian communities against a sugar giant.

Vietnam invaded Cambodia in January 1979 with about 200000 troops to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime, which had ruled since 1975.

Floating villages spread across the surface of the Mekong River's waterways, playing host to ethnic Vietnamese whose status in Cambodian society is ...

The newly minted Kem Ley Party founded by the slain political activist's brother has changed its name to the Khmer United Party. The change puts the party in ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen left Cambodia yesterday to attend the Asean-Australia Special Summit which will take place this weekend in Sydney. Minister Attached ...

Rhona Smith, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, will visit the country starting today.

Observers said they do not believe that cases 003 and 004 will go to trial due to the strong opposition from Hun Sen. WASHINGTON —. Yim Tith, who was ...

Bilateral relations between Cambodia and Australia are longstanding and mutually beneficial. And so is the relationship between Australia and Asean.

Members of the Cambodia National Rescue Movement have called for a boycott of products from bottled water company Vital Premium Water, one of many local ...

Experts on Cambodia's indigenous peoples met early this month to discuss challenges faced by the community and urged the authorities to address their ...

The head of a Khmer Krom advocacy association yesterday issued a statement urging his followers not to join ex-opposition leader Sam Rainsy's newly minted ...

The novel “Krom Domnok Teouk Pleang” (Under the Raindrops) was written by the talented, multi-award winning author Um Sophanny. In 1989, “Krom Domnok ...

All photographs courtesy of VOKK 2017. During the weekend of 9-10 December 2017, the Khmer Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) hosted its annual ...

The Chinese donation came after the United States said it was cutting aid to the Cambodian Mine Action Center's operations this year.

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom for Human Rights and Development Association has announced plans to hold a rally in Siem Reap province to celebrate Human ...

The aim of the GCMS is to provide academic recommendations to member countries of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism.

Following the closing of independent media outlets and the arrest of Cambodia's opposition leader, officials in Phnom Penh have begun training their verbal fire ...

Fifty years ago, U.S. Army Captain Steve Yedinak returned home from Vietnam believing that he had led covert operations that contributed significantly to the ...

Three local NGOs are to request a meeting with the Interior Minister to discuss the granting of ID cards to Kampuchea Krom people living in Cambodia.

Photo Courtesy of Khmer Times. On 2 August 2017, former Kampuchea Krom Buddhist monk Dav Tep, who was convicted for his alleged drug abuse and death ...

Siem Reap police are fending off allegations that they harassed and humiliated a Khmer Krom monk and a layman who have gone missing while visiting the ...

About 100 police armed with batons, pistols and rifles blocked the road in front of Phnom Penh's Wat Chas pagoda yesterday to stop about a dozen activists from ...

A week after opposition leader Kem Sokha said his party would no longer appeal to anti-Vietnamese sentiments in its campaigns, two prominent opposition ...

The Kampuchea Krom community has been told they cannot hold a rally in Phnom Penh to mark the day their territory was lost to Vietnam and speak out against ...

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Association has vowed to seek help from the United Nations if the petition it submitted to the Vietnamese government yesterday ...

The Kampuchea Krom community will today petition the Vietnamese government to stop restricting the rights of its citizens living in Vietnam. The move comes 68 ...

The secretariat representing 11 branches of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Association in Cambodia has welcomed a decision by Vietnamese provincial ...

While Cambodia in theory offers full citizenship to members of its Khmer Krom minority, in practice, many members of the community remain in a legal ...

The state authority of the Travinh province in the Mekong Delta claims that holy land belonging to the Muniransi temple was sold to a Vietnamese resident.

Two minority rights organisations have asked the Ministry of Interior to ensure its officials issue national identity cards to Khmer Krom, who they say are facing ...

A coalition of Kampuchea Krom community groups will celebrate the 67th anniversary of the loss of land to Vietnam on Saturday at the Bodhiyarama Buddhist ...

Two Khmer Krom monks, arrested and defrocked last August after being charged with drug possession, attempted murder and forgery, were sentenced on ...

The merits of drug, attempted murder and forgery charges brought against two Khmer Krom monks arrested last August were weighed in Phnom Penh Municipal ...

Yim Tith has been charged with crimes including crimes against humanity and genocide against the Khmer Krom perpetrated during his time as acting secretary ...

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom ethnic minority, which lives in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, is unlikely to benefit from the wider integration of Asean, ...

On 17 March 2015, former deputy chief of the Tram Kak district hospital Riel Son testified against Pol Pot's regime. He told the Khmer Rouge Tribunal about the ...

Thach Setha, the president of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Community, says he is planning to lead a group to an unlikely destination: France, the country he ...

Marching in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement – the country's national day – between 800 and ...

Hanoi has strongly criticized a group of “extremists” for burning the flag of Vietnam during a protest by the Khmer Krom ethnic minority in front of the country's ...

Monks and nationalist protesters burned a Vietnamese flag in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on Tuesday as the embassy continued to ignore calls to ...

Hundreds of monks and other representatives from Vietnam's Khmer Krom ethnic minority living in Cambodia held a protest Wednesday calling on Phnom Penh ...

Many Cambodians remain angered that the area, called Kampuchea Krom, or Lower Cambodia, in Khmer, was partitioned to Vietnam by the French in 1949.

A Cambodian advocacy group says the Mekong Delta of Vietnam should be returned to the Khmer people who have lived there for generations.

More than a hundred monks and students from Vietnam's Khmer Krom ethnic minority living in Cambodia clashed Tuesday with riot police and security guards in ...

A Khmer Krom association threatened this week to protest against the Vietnamese government after an official said that the former Kampuchea Krom provinces ...

The delta was once part of Cambodia, but it was partitioned to Vietnam by the French at the end of their Indochinese colonization in 1949.

Plans to commemorate 65 years since France recognised formerly Kampuchea Krom provinces as part of Vietnam were scaled back by City Hall yesterday.

Sok* doesn't know if he's Cambodian or yuon. The 30-year-old, who has been an undocumented immigrant his entire adult life, speaks the Khmer Krom dialect, ...

The leader of an organisation of monks from Kampuchea Krom, the part of southern Vietnam that once belonged to the Khmer Empire, accused security officials ...

Nearly 1,000 ethnic Khmer Krom living in Cambodia on Tuesday marked the 64th anniversary of the loss of their territory to Hanoi amid calls to protect the rights ...

Khmer Krom monks pray at a pagoda in Phnom Penh at a 2007 rally to demand the release of a monk arrested for allegedly organizing an anti-Vietnam ...

The Vietnamese government is threatening to defrock Ly Chanda, a Khmer Krom Buddhist monk, for teaching about Buddhism and the Khmer language.