PM talks tough to donor nations over aid 'threats'
Vong Sokheng, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned European parliamentarians who are calling for aid funding to Cambodia to be dependent on the country’s human rights...
View ArticleCNRP compiles new petition for King
Meas Sokchea, Ananth Baliga and Mech DaraThe Phnom Penh Post, Tue, 14 June 2016The Cambodia National Rescue Party compiled supporter thumbprints from across the country at their headquarters yesterday,...
View ArticleCNRP activists given seven-year terms over protest-turned-violent
Niem Chheng, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016Three opposition party activists were yesterday sentenced to seven years in prison over their alleged roles in a 2014 anti-government protest at Phnom...
View ArticleDuch accuses Nuon Chea of exaggerating confessions
Erin Handley, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016Former Khmer Rouge second-in-command and current Case 002 defendant Nuon Chea was known to exaggerate confessions extracted from Vietnamese prisoners...
View ArticleNo bail for jailed Adhoc, NEC officials
Lay Samean, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016The Appeal Court yesterday rejected the bail applications of four Adhoc staffers and one National Election Committee official on the grounds that the...
View ArticleOne dead, 12 injured as van slams into tuk-tuk
Khouth Sophak Chakrya, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016A 20-year-old woman was killed and another 12 people injured after a van rear-ended a heavily laden tuk-tuk on Phnom Penh’s Russian Boulevard...
View ArticleMother, son missing as boat sinks in Mekong
Kong Meta, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016A Vietnamese mother and child are missing after the boat they were on, carrying 200 tonnes of iron pipes from Vietnam, sank yesterday on the Mekong River...
View ArticleCambodian FM to visit Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Reader: He reject proposal of –UN,US ,EU and he seeks to consolidate with his brother dictatorSource: Xinhua 2016-06-13 19:54:17PHNOM PENH, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn...
View ArticleNGOs Die First if Aid Cut: PM
Khmer Times/Ven Rathavong Tuesday, 14 June 2016Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday slammed recent calls for sanctions against Cambodia over what supporters of the measures call a government-level...
View ArticlePM Rejects Talks, Slams Opposition
Khmer Times/May Titthara Tuesday, 14 June 2016Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened the opposition yesterday for preparing to stage mass protests and rallies if opposition leader Kem Sokha is arrested...
View ArticleTHE GREAT RALLY OF JUNE 10th, 2016
June 10, 2016: THE GREAT RALLY FOR HUMAN RIGHTSBy Sokha Ou-Uun Washington D.C.Pictures from the rallies at different parts of the world, held on June 10, 2016 demanding the international community to...
View ArticleCPP ‘main hero’ Say Pouthang dies aged 96
[Say Pouthang. Source: Hun Sen's Facebook]Mech Dara, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016The fifth-highest ranked member of the Cambodian People’s Party’s politburo, Say Phouthang, an influential...
View ArticleMeasures in works amid low child’s rights ranking
Yesenia Amaro, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016A new report has ranked Cambodia 125 out of 163 countries in terms of its protection of children’s rights, even as the government works to finalise a...
View ArticleAlleged VoIP scammers busted in Phnom Penh
Kong Meta, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016Phnom Penh immigration police yesterday arrested 27 Chinese nationals on suspicion of using voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology to defraud...
View ArticleGov’t not to blame for capital floods, PM says
Sen David and Igor Kossov, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted online critics who had been taking the government to task over the flash flood that enveloped...
View ArticleRaid finds dozens of reptiles in Battambang restaurant
Phak Seangly, The Phnom Penh PostTue, 14 June 2016Officials confiscated dozens of protected tortoises and lizards from a Battambang restaurant in Samlot district yesterday.The raid was a joint...
View ArticleHow organ donation saved my life [From Hak Chou]
During my basketball career, I won the NBA Finals and an Olympic Gold Medal. I thought I was strong enough to take on anything that came my way -- that there was nothing I couldn't just put some ice on...
View ArticleToday: Join in the United State of Women Summit [From Hak Chou]
Here's why we're talking about the #StateofWomen today:Women are increasingly serving as leaders throughout industry, civil society, and government -- but we know that we cannot rest until we tackle...
View ArticleTop arms exporters in the world
The global defence trade is expected to jump to US$69 billion in 2016 after reaching a record-breaking US$65 billion last year, the IHS’s annual Global Defence Trade Report says.Campaigners from...
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