Prime Minister Hun Sen allocates $1.2 billion to compensate for losses under ‘Everything But Arms’ preferences.
In September, the ADB had revised its April estimate of a 5.5 percent contraction in the economy, severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, to a slightly better four percent contraction.
Nineteen unionists, youth, and rights activists have been placed under pre-trial detention on alleged incitement charges, according to the local rights group Licadho.
Loss of EU trade preferences and a pandemic punish Cambodia’s garment industry.
The code, if signed after 18 years of debate, would give Beijing and 10 Southeast Asian countries a way to prevent accidents in the South China Sea.
Close to two dozen former CNRP party officials have been arrested or convicted in recent months, mostly on alleged incitement charges.
U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy spoke with VOA Khmer reporter Bopha Phorn late last month at his residence in Phnom Penh. The 30-minute interview covered trade, U.S. investment in Cambodia, money-laundering, human rights, recent arrests of Cambodian civil society and labor advocates su
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there were “credible reports” that Dara Sakor “could be used to host (Chinese) military assets.”
Nations accused of violating their citizens’ rights and freedoms will come under intense scrutiny by the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council during its upcoming three-week session, which begins on Monday.
Hun Manet said outside forces were trying to break up the military by trying to plant and exploit internal dissent.
The European Union on Friday expressed serious concern over the recent spate of arrests and detentions of youth and rights advocates, linked to a government crackdown on protests emanating from the arrest of trade unionist Rong Chhun.
The UN human rights office says Cambodia's alleged measures mark a deepening of the government's intolerance toward dissent.
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