The government should throw its weight behind Cambodia’s young and dynamic private sector, which has the talent and skills to capitalise on the opportunities presented by ASEAN regional economic integration, a government adviser said during a forum on Friday.     ...

Angelina Jolie-Pitt met with Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace on Thursday to discuss her upcoming movie “First They Killed My Father” and a conservation area in Battambang championed by the actress, a spokesman for the prime minister said.  ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen arrived in New York yesterday for a series of meetings, with making demining a key UN development goal at the top of his agenda. ...

Despite recent high-profile cases of monastic child sex abuse, the organisers of a national conference for monks have left the issue off of the agenda, a move met with criticism yesterday by child protection advocates.At a press conference to launch the 24th congress of Buddhist ...

Greg Barron, an award-winning radio producer, was 32 when he reported the despair of Cambodian refugees fleeing across the Thai border to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide in late 1979. ...

Sean Pengse, a former government minister under the Lon Nol regime and an outspoken critic on Cambodia’s border issues with Vietnam, has died in France at 82. Pengse passed away after a long illness in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a statement issued ...

As Burma loosens its grip on the media, Cambodia has begun to rank high among the countries repressing internet and telephone freedom in the name of national security, safety and social order. It is still not comparable to China or Vietnam, but Cambodia is moving ...

Speaking to hundreds of garment workers yesterday in Phnom Penh, Kem Sokha, deputy president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), appealed to those in attendance to vote for the newly formed opposition party, promising higher wages, social security and free access to schools and ...

The Ministry of Interior, jointly with the Ministry of Telecommunications has issued an inter-ministerial directive that requires telecom service providers to strictly check the identity information of their subscribers and users to take part in eliminating telecommunication crimes after the criminals used this high technology to kidnap and committed the serious crimes and difficulties of seeking ...

Cambodia’s Interior Minister Sar Kheng warned the opposition party leader and his supporters that they will be held responsible if their planned mass demonstration against election results leads to violence and destruction of public and private properties. “A peaceful protest against any issues is the freedom ...

Cambodia’s highest monks have called on the clergy to refrain from joining any political demonstrations, calling it an abuse of morals and professional ethics. In a statement issued on Sunday and obtained yesterday, the three top Buddhist leaders liken joining protests to the act of killing. “An ...

On 20 and 21 June 2014, The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) will host a workshop for youth on electoral reform aimed at providing opportunities for youth participants to identify key concerns regarding electoral reform and to develop recommendations, in addition to learning about ...

Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) collaborates with Development Innovations, a 3-year USAID-funDed project, to launch a Cambodian version of Bribespot, a mobile app which allows all smartphone users to report immediately and effectively when they encounter bribery. The launch will take place at Development Innovations on ...

An overland hot air balloon journeying through more than 100 countries is now in Cambodia, and was this morning at Wat Botum Park, lighting up the city skyline, to increase awareness of children’s right to education and to raise funds for UNICEF’s work around the ...

Cambodian Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) and independent experts believe that the July 22 political leader’s agreement between the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) provides a framework for basic principles to ensure the effectiveness and transparency of the parliamentary process in accordance ...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) launches today – 16 June 2014 – a new project, the Empowering Cloghers Project (the Project) and announces a call for applications for people interested in receiving training through the Project. The Project aims to strengthen the online ...

Professor Surya P. Subedi is about to complete 11th­ human rights fact-finding mission to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the second since the National Assembly elections took place in July 2013. Professor Surya P. Subedi proposed to confirm the initial findings and thoughts about the human ...

Phnom Penh, 09 July 2014 – Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) confirms the withdrawal of its involment concerning the 2014 BaccII exam monitoring in August du to the required criteria does not allow TI cambodia to implement its systematic and scientific method called Sample Based ...

Today, 26 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) and CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, condemn the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (the “RGC”) decision to reject key recommendations on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Cambodia put forward by United ...

Only one third of all Khmer adults 18 and older are single. Most of those are in the age group between 18 and 25. By the ages between 26 and 35 however, four out of five Cambodians are married. ...