Population and censuses

As the United States commits to admitting 10,000 refugees from the current conflict in Syria, Cambodian refugees who arrived in the U.S. some 35 years ago say more needs to be done to help refugees resettle in order to prevent further suffering and future social ...

Vuthy Tik was born in Cambodia. He and his family arrived in the United States in 1982 after having fled the war between Khmer Rouge forces and advancing Vietnamese troops. In 2002, the US threatened Cambodia with aid cuts if it did not agree to ...

Refugees resettled in Cambodia as part of a multi-million-dollar deal with Australia have reportedly moved into private accommodation, five months after arriving in the Asian nation. ...

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government signed with Australia last year are now renting their own apartments and searching for jobs, having left their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the International Organization for Migration ...

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. ...

A Rohingya refugee who landed in Phnom Penh in June as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is likely back in Burma after requesting to return home, according to the Interior Ministry. ...

As 24 Montagnards returned to Vietnam on Thursday after Cambodia refused to process their asylum claims, rights groups criticized the U.N.’s refugee agency for assisting the government in repatriating the group to a country where they claim to have fled from persecution. ...

The Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey 2014 has revealed the balanced sex ratio in the country, according to the state news agency-AKP. ...

Two more refugees detained on the South Pacific island of Nauru are expected to arrive in Cambodia soon as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia. ...

A senior investigator at rights group Adhoc has warned that regional economic integration will lead to a flood of Cambodians migrating elsewhere in search of jobs that pay better than those at home. ...

Nearly 2,000 people have been deported from Cambodia – the vast majority of them Vietnamese – in the first nine months of 2015, according to new government figures.From January through September, 1,919 people were expelled from the Kingdom, and 90 per cent of those thrown ...

Cambodian authorities on Wednesday refused a request for asylum made by nine Vietnamese Montagnards who had traveled to Phnom Penh to ask for help, and whose presence in the country had previously gone unreported. ...

The Interior Ministry will send a delegation to Nauru Island this month to interview another four asylum seekers who are considering resettling in Cambodia, a spokesman for the ministry said yesterday.   ...

Less than two weeks after Australia’s immigration minister met with Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh following media reports that a controversial refugee deal had collapsed, a spokesman for an organization that monitors refugees on Nauru said that asylum seekers there are again being ...

Nearly a month after the deadly bombing at Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Cambodia’s military police spokesman Eng Hy said police have increased security at potential terrorist targets in Phnom Penh, such as Aeon Mall, aiming to prevent a similar tragedy in Cambodia. ...

A second group of refugees is scheduled to arrive from the Pacific Island of Nauru next month, in an ongoing agreement with Australia. ...

The Immigration police at Svay Rieng, an eastern province rounded up 74 foreign national, include 34 Vietnamese for illegal stay in Cambodia.​ ...

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said Thursday that Cambodian officials would visit Nauru within weeks to vet more refugees for their controversial resettlement scheme, according to Australian media. ...

Immigration minister Peter Dutton has met Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen to salvage a $55 million agreement with the impoverished nation to resettle more refugees from Nauru.Only days after declaring it had no plans to resettle more than four refugees who arrived in June, ...

Senior immigration officials from the ten ASEAN member countries gathered here on Monday to discuss ways to further enhance regional cooperation, according to Chinese News Agency- Xinhua. ...

The fate of a Rohingya refugee who has chosen to return home rather than remain in Cambodia as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is now in the hands of the Myanmar government, senior officials from both countries said yesterday.Moe Htet Kyaw, second ...

A Rohingya refugee wants to go back to Burma—where his people are denied citizenship and subject to deadly pogroms by the Buddhist majority—rather than stay in Cambodia any longer, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...

One of four asylum seekers resettled in Cambodia just three months ago in a multimillion-dollar deal that saw them sent from an Australian-run detention camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru has decided he wants to go home, a Cambodian official said Sunday. ...

Nearly 60 illegal Vietnamese migrant workers were arrested by immigration police Wednesday during raids on six furniture workshops and a coffee shop in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district, an immigration official said. ...