s highest court ruled on Monday in a unanimous decision on a long-simmering border dispute. The international court of justice said a 1962 ruling by its judges gave Cambodia sovereignty over the Preah Vihear promontory. Thailand will have to withdraw any military or police forces stationed there. Cambodia...
s government says its workers will be shielded from abuse, but doubts linger over key welfare issues Thol Srey Mach is one of 400 women taking part in a pilot scheme that is sending Cambodian domestic workers to Singapore. There are more than 200,000 foreign domestic workers on the island, and if the trial goes well it could open the way for a new source of labour to sate the affluent city-state's...
Former residents of the Borei Keila community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, clash with security guards on Wednesday over a long-standing dispute about forced evictions ...
s most critical finding is deceptively simple: elections do not take place in a vacuum, and their quality cannot be judged solely by what happens during the vote. We must also examine what happens before and after elections, and survey the long-term rights landscape, particularly the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. Election periods are a time for citizens to express their collective...
s murder in 2012 and election blow to Hun Sen's government could trigger political change, say campaigners In Cambodia, there is talk of change. Not just from Hun Sen, the prime minister, who has promised reforms after his party suffered a significant blow in recent elections, but from environmental activists and campaigners, who say there has never before been such an opportunity to lobby a government...
s march disputing Hun Sen's recent re-election as prime minister turned violent, leaving one dead and several more injured. Roughly 1,000 demonstrators camped out overnight in Phnom Penh's Freedom park and were joined on Monday morning by hundreds more calling for an independent investigation into voting irregularities that the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party claims may have cost them the...
Thousands of demonstrators defy road blocks and a jail threat to march in protest over election results ...
s long-ruling prime minister, Hun Sen, briefly met the head of main opposition party for the first time in years on Saturday, but the two rivals reached no agreement on how to end the political stalemate that has simmered since the country's disputed election. The opposition says it would have won had the vote been fair and has vowed to stage a new wave of protests Sunday and boycott parliament's first...