Population and censuses

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Monday denied a refugee deal with Cambodia had collapsed after Cambodian officials said it did not intend to accept any more refugees from a South Pacific  detention center under an  agreement. ...

Australia’s foreign minister on Monday insisted that a controversial refugee deal with Cambodia was alive and well, dismissing Australian news reports that efforts to resettle more refugees here from Nauru had collapsed. ...

Almost three months after four refugees arrived in Cambodia from Nauru as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia, the Interior Ministry said on Friday that it had no plans to receive more refugees being held in the South Pacific island nation. ...

The Department of Immigration conducted a raid yesterday on a construction site in the capital near Wat Phnom. In all, officials checked 61 workers for valid permits. ...

Sam Rainsy, leader of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), yesterday slammed the deal the government made with Australia to take in asylum seekers detained on the Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia. ...

Nearly 30 Nigerian nationals and one Filipino were arrested in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday after being found to be living in the Kingdom unlawfully. ...

The number of Montagnard asylum seekers in Phnom Penh has doubled over the past two months with the U.N. saying Thursday that there are now more than 200 in the capital, but the government’s refugee department again denied knowledge of the group. ...

Thirteen Cambodian workers were bailed out of Thai prisons and allowed to return home on Tuesday after spending nearly two months in jail for entering the neighbouring kingdom illegally, family members said yesterday. ...

Immigration authorities yesterday deported 52 people found living illegally in Cambodia, bringing the total number of people booted out of the Kingdom since the government began a census of foreigners last July to nearly 3,000. ...

The director of immigration at the Interior Ministry has warned local authorities to immediately cease distributing identity documents to illegal immigrants after recent census data revealed that allegedly crooked officials have been handing out papers. ...

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen plans to meet with Australian prime minister for additional talk on the implementation of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to the resettlement of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia. ...

The Immigration police from the Ministry of Interior arrested 30 Vietnamese nationals today for alleged illegal work at a workplace in Chbar Ampove Khan’s Prek Pra commune. ...

Two months after Cambodia received its first group of asylum seekers from Australia as part of a controversial resettlement deal, a Cambodian government official has said the refugees are “very happy” in their new homes. ...

Cambodia has deported 1,484 illegal immigrants to their birth countries within the first seven months of 2015, the National Police’s website reported Saturday, citing a senior immigration police officer. ...

Cambodia’s population is expected to grow by 22 per cent to almost 19 million by 2030, while infant mortality is slated to decrease and life expectancy to increase, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. ...

Villages of Vietnamese people were set up in Ratanakiri Province of Cambodia in the 1960s, and Cambodian villages were built in Vietnam for people to flee from the Pol Pot regime the following decade. ...

Cambodia may not achieve its goal of attracting 5 million tourists this year due to the slowdown in the global economy, according to the Ministry of Tourism. ...

Six ethnic Montagnard Christians who fled Vietnam and illegally entered Cambodia to seek refugee status have arrived safely in the capital Phnom Penh, an official from a local human rights group said Monday. ...

In an effort to expand its role and promote friendship between Vietnam and Cambodia, the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Association (VCFA) organised a meeting with the Steering Committee for the Southwestern Region (SCSR) here on Monday, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. ...

A month after the first four refugees arrived in Cambodia under a controversial resettlement scheme the government signed with Australia last year, immigration officers on the South Pacific island of Nauru are ratcheting up efforts to convince more refugees to join them, according to a ...

The head of the Interior Ministry’s immigration department called on provincial governors and police chiefs on Wednesday to help rein in illegal immigration as the number of Vietnamese migrants doubled over a five-year period. ...

The government will not accept more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam because it lacks the resources to do so and does not want to provoke Hanoi, Council of Ministers’ Phay Siphan told Khmer Times yesterday. ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report on the continuous persecution of Montagnards in Vietnam, condemning the Cambodian government for denying asylum to those fleeing into the Kingdom. ...

Police from the Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration on Thursday detained more than 100 Vietnamese men working at a metal scrapyard in Phnom Penh to assess the legitimacy of their employment in Cambodia. ...