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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
• 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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Soy Sros spent nearly two months in prison after criticizing her employer’s response to the pandemic. She has been released, but her imprisonment has had lasting effects on her health and her workplace.
Soy Sros. Photograph: Worker Rights Consortium
On March 31, 2020, as the COVID-19 (...)
This situationer provides a general overview of COVID-19 in Cambodia, as it impacts on four broad dimensions: health, political, economic, and socio-cultural. The data and information were compiled from various sources including official government pronouncements, news reports, coronavirus (...)
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