Vitit Muntarbhorn has spent many years working with the U.N. on a range of rights issues, including LGBTQ, labor, children’s, and sexual rights.
The NagaCorp project included a 500-room luxury hotel, a “China Town”, and artificial gardens and waterways – all constructed less than a kilometer from the Angkor park.
Chheng Kimlong, director of the Asian Vision Institute’s Centre for Governance Innovation and Democracy, said the outbreak would hurt local consumption, the service sector, and export production.
The draft legislation is the second law proposed by the government to control the spread of COVID-19.
Hun Sen, 68, is now the world’s longest-serving prime minister.
Asked whether Phnom Penh would be of a view that Myanmar should hold a new general election, Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Koy Kuong said, “It is the internal affairs of Myanmar.”
A new COVID-19 cluster, which was detected over the weekend, has spread beyond Phnom Penh, with the World Health Organization warning that a “larger scale” outbreak could overrun Cambodia’s health care infrastructure.
NagaCorp said the project would be the only “truly integrated resort close to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap” and would be built on a 75-hectare land plot leased by the Apsara National Authority through a 50-year lease.
The youth activists were protesting on the streets of Phnom Penh following the July arrest of Rong Chhun, who is also being tried for incitement for comments he made about Cambodia’s border demarcation with Vietnam.
Banteng and red muntjacs, also known as Bali cattle and barking deer, respectively, are disappearing in the face of business interests, deforestation, and poaching for the table.
The annual Golden Dragon infantry exercise with the Chinese army was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lack of preparations in the aftermath of the October floods.
Hun Sen said Cambodia would not make any comments about the developments in Myanmar, calling it Naypyidaw’s internal affair.
Last week, Hun Sen crossed 36 years as prime minister of Cambodia, making him one of the longest-serving elected officials in the world.
Preliminary student enrolment numbers from the education ministry for kindergarten to high school were around 3,466,000 students which was a 17,854 drop from 2019.
A major obstacle to Mu Sochua’s return is the cancelation of her Cambodian passport in 2019, which means she will require a visa on her American passport before departure.
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy sat down with VOA Khmer’s Aun Chhengpor for an interview about the state of democracy and human rights in Cambodia. He said that Cambodia’s fledgling democracy has been eroded recently and that he urged Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to “do just the
The 5,593-page Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 document earmarks at least $85,505,000 in assistance for Cambodia.
Sar Kheng’s speech comes months after security personnel used excessive force to quell small and peaceful protests in Phnom Penh, following the arrest of jailed unionist Rong Chhun in July.
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy spoke to VOA Khmer on Thursday, in which he said Cambodia’s democracy had deteriorated over the last three years.
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