Cambodia News: Khmer Krom

Y'Khiem Ayun is working on his United States citizenship, but he fought in Vietnam far longer than any native-born American veteran did. The official period of ...

A new contract assembly company will open its doors in Ayer, Massachusetts this month. Advanced Electric Technology is a fully equipped brand-new facility.

They have no high poles for them to dance on. There is not a large space for them to roll around. None of them speak even one Chinese word.

Traditional art forms struggle to survive in today's technology focused, entertainment rich modern society. But there is one form of traditional Khmer theatre that is ...

David Bowden. With a new purpose-built ship, visitors to Cambodia can explore Tonle Sap River in luxurious comfort, writes David Bowden ...

In January, Cambodia celebrated the 40th Anniversary of the Vietnamese invasion that ended the Khmer Rouge regime in the country. Every year, these events ...

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in late December 1978 and overthrew the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime on 7 January ...

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

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

40 years after the invasion that toppled the Khmer Rouge, it's clear China emerged the ultimate winner.

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

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday said provincial authorities have faced challenges while relocating thousands of Khmer Cham and ethnic Vietnamese ...

Published in April 2018, “Red Moon” or more commonly known in Khmer as Preah Chan Krohom depicts an aspect of the Cambodian tradition and how people ...

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Association is today hosting an event to commemorate Kampuchea Krom separatists who died during the failed war for ...

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Guangxi's Nanning vocational technology college (NCVT) is reaching out to Cambodian students in an effort to teach Business English to meet expected ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Shi Xuecheng is accused of harassing and demanding sexual favors from numerous nuns in a 95-page statement compiled by two fellow monks at the storied ...

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 ...

Three political parties contesting the election yesterday slammed the government, accusing it of abusing human rights, and forcing voters and youths to refrain ...

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. After surviving the Khmer Rouge regime and going onto study ...

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 ...

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.

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

On the occasion of the conference "Political & Economic Situation in Southeast Asia: The Case of the Indigenous Khmer-Krom People" held on 2 June 2018 in ...

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

Three Khmer Kampuchea Krom associations are planning to host a religious ceremony in Phnom Penh next month to mark the anniversary of the cession of ...

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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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 ...

About 30 ethnic minority groups from across Vietnam will show off their distinctive culture at Vietnam's Ethnic Culture Day which is slated for April 19-22 in Hanoi, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A small-scale research study carried out in Cambodia has indicated that the performing arts can serve as a form of catharsis and have value as potential ...

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.

For Sameth Mell, this is a good week. A Cambodian refugee, he learned in May that he had won this year's community voice award for championing social ...

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.

Former Khmer Kampuchea Krom Buddhist monk Dav Tep, who was sentenced to two years in prison for drug abuse and making a death threat, was released on ...

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 ...

Many Khmer Krom people living in Cambodia struggle to gain proper identification documents—despite the government repeatedly declaring them “automatic ...

Photo courtesy of: AFP 2016 @SCMP.com. In November 2016, the Vietnamese National Assembly enacted a law that puts severe restrictions on religious ...

A Grammy Award is the highest honor there is in the music industry, and a Cambodian band has been nominated in two categories at next year's Grammys in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 protesters descended on the Vietnamese Embassy yesterday to again ask for a public apology from a spokesman who said in June that the former ...

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 ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's administration on Friday hit out at opposition leaders for accusing the government of ceding territory to Vietnam at a ...

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 ...

Two ethnic Khmer monks have escaped into hiding after an attempt by Vietnamese government and religious authorities to strip them of their religious status ...

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

Four Khmer Krom monks, who had been held in a Vietnamese prison for almost two years, were released Sunday and Monday, according to Khmer Krom Monk ...