Climate change and upstream dams controlled by China are changing the lake that is Cambodia's key protein source
The report — “A Snapshot of the Gold Mining Industry in Cambodia: Rights Violations, and Environmental Damage” — notes that a government official in 2007 touted the industry’s promise of reducing reliance on donor aid and funding everything from schools to infrastructure and social programs.
Sen. Reggie Thomas, a Democrat, said the final text of the bill was still being worked out, but noted he has already received the co-sponsorship of Republican state Sen. John Schickel, who chairs the chamber’s Licensing and Occupations Committee.
The model curriculum will provide teachers with everything they need to integrate Cambodian culture history and curriculum into their courses or classes, such as lesson plans, primary documents and teaching strategies.
Prime Minister Hun Manet's government has quickly gone on the defensive against the report, playing down the scale of the problem. Both the report and experts on the issue say Cambodia has yet to show the necessary resolve to root out and shut down the trafficking networks.
Hun Sen had used platform to physically threaten political opponents in video of speech he delivered
The decision drew swift backlash from across Cambodia’s democracy and human rights advocates, as well as Hun Manet’s political opponents and critics on Capitol Hill.
Cambodia’s government congratulated tech giant Meta on its decision late last month to reject a recommendation from the company’s own Oversight Board to suspend former Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook account.
Gallup finds: 'In no other country in the world is there greater inequality between the rich and poor in their ability to afford food'
Hun Manet assures Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that Cambodia’s new government will maintain 'unchanged stance' on Bejing’s one-China policy and a 'non-interference policy' toward China
Coming in the broader context of a crackdown on independent institutions — from the media to apolitical nonprofits and advocacy groups — the legal saga likely had its desired impact, the ABA report concludes.
The amendment would require Secretary of State Antony Blinken to put Cambodian officials on a visa blacklist if there is “credible information” that they “have been involved in the unlawful detention of United States citizen Theary Seng.”
The international community has criticized past elections as well, such as the 2018 results when the CPP won all 125 seats. Yet foreign governments still lined up outside parliament when the new government was sworn in.
Individuals found in violation of the Cambodia Democracy and Human Rights Act would be barred from conducting any financial transactions in the U.S. and would have their visas blocked or revoked.
Should the CPP once again face a serious threat to its power, as it did a decade ago, activists worry Cambodia may be prepared to impose more Beijing-like control over the internet.
For the past 15 years, a unique experiment in international justice played out in a repurposed Army headquarters on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Hundreds of lawyers, translators, staffers and service workers mad
Colleagues pay tribute to fearless American reporter who interviewed Pol Pot
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