Cambodia News News Cambodia » People: Cambodia: Legal Revisions Reinforce One-Party Rule
The Cambodian government should withdraw proposed legal amendments that would drastically reduce opposition party representation in top positions on local councils, Human Rights Watch said today.
News Cambodia » People: The Illusion of Technocratic Transformation in Cambodia
The country is hitting a developmental wall because necessary structural reforms clash directly with the needs of an entrenched patronage system.
News Cambodia » People: Hun Manet: In His Father’s Long Shadow
Last year, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen handed power to his eldest son Hun Manet. One year on, it is clear that he remains the country’s most powerful man. Hun Manet, son of Cambodia Prime ...
News Cambodia » People: Cambodia Court Sentences 3 Activists to 7 Years in Prison
The government-controlled municipal court in Phnom Penh on September 2, 2026 sentenced three activists to seven years in prison for allegedly plotting against the government. They were 25-year-old ...
News Cambodia » People: Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites
PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — Ruos Lim knows what is at stake as he sets off with 10 men to patrol the Chom Penh forest. Lim is part of the Kuy people who have relied on the wooded hills in northern ...
News Cambodia » People: Cambodia's relocation of people from UNESCO site raises concerns
RUN TA EK – It's been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia's Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement ...
News Cambodia » People: Constitutional amendment allows Cambodian government to revoke citizenship
Cambodian lawmakers on Friday voted unanimously to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow the government to create legislation that would revoke the citizenship of Cambodians found guilty of ...
News Cambodia » People: Cambodian lawmakers pass bill to revoke citizenship that critics call repressive
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian lawmakers on Monday approved a bill giving the government power to revoke the citizenship of anyone found guilty of conspiring with foreign nations to harm the ...
News Cambodia » People: Cambodia’s relocation of people from UNESCO site raises concerns
RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — It’s been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia’s Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty ...