Cambodia Morning News For December 22

Cambodia Morning News For December 22

Hun Sen Claims Cambodia Can Survive Without ‘Oxygen’ of Trade With West Hun Sen said his government was working to resist “negative influence” from the west while developing its agricultural sector, industry, and manufacturing. — […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 21

Cambodia Morning News For December 21

Hun Sen’s New Year Gift: Universal Healthcare For All Cambodia Employees While Cambodia-focused media and human rightists have been focusing on the country’s slide from democracy a funny thing happened… universal healthcare for all workers […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 20

Cambodia Morning News For December 20

US democracy ‘not a good fit for Cambodia’, says academic Pro-government academic and head of Cambodia’s Royal Academy Sok Touch yesterday continued to voice support for the government’s recent actions against the opposition while dismissing […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 19

Cambodia Morning News For December 19

Dissolved Cambodia Opposition Rejects PM Hun Sen’s Call to ‘Form New Party’ A senior official from Cambodia’s recently dissolved opposition party on Monday rejected a suggestion by the country’s prime minister to “form a new […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 18

Cambodia Morning News For December 18

Cambodia’s Hun Sen challenges EU and U.S. to freeze assets Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen encouraged the United States and European Union on Friday to freeze the assets of Cambodian leaders abroad in response to […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 15

Cambodia Morning News For December 15

Government hopes decentralisation boosts business registration To promote the registration of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will begin early next year to decentralise the process by granting provincial government […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 14

Cambodia Morning News For December 14

US Lawmakers Call For Sanctions List, Review of Trade With Cambodia Amid Crackdown The Committee on Foreign Affairs for the U.S. House of Representatives has called for a list of individuals and businesses in Cambodia […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 13

Cambodia Morning News For December 13

EU Halts Funding to Cambodia’s National Election Committee The European Union on Tuesday said it is suspending financial assistance to Cambodia’s National Election Committee, citing the dissolution of the main opposition party by the government […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 12

Cambodia Morning News For December 12

Overseas Cambodians Rally in Washington to Protest Hun Sen More than a thousand Cambodians living in the United States, Canada, and France demonstrated in front of the Cambodian embassy in Washington on Sunday to demand […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 11

Cambodia Morning News For December 11

Human Rights Day celebrations kept to a minimum amid fears of crackdown Civil society and union leaders took their celebrations of Human Rights Day indoors yesterday, citing fears of being branded as colour revolutionaries. — […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 8

Cambodia Morning News For December 8

Cambodia Claims Washington ‘Trying to Destroy Relations’ as U.S. Imposes Travel Restrictions The United States on Wednesday said it will block entry to Cambodians whom Washington deems are “undermining democracy in Cambodia” and called on […]

Cambodia Morning News For December 7

Cambodia Morning News For December 7

US Restricts Visas for Cambodians ‘Undermining Democracy’ The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will restrict visas for Cambodians “undermining democracy” in the Southeast Asian nation following the dissolution of the main opposition party and a […]