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Cambodian court tightens restrictions on prominent political activist

Cambodia: Coerced Confessions Silence Activists, Opposition

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Widespread abuses persist in Cambodia cyber-scam compounds despite crackdown: report

Amnesty International reported Monday that Cambodia’s high-profile crackdown on cyber-scam compounds has failed to dismantle most operations and has left trafficking victims withou...

Cambodia Intensifies Crackdown to Restore Global Reputation

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said restoring the country’s international reputation has become one of his government’s biggest challenges. Speaking at the 3rd National Day of...

Cambodia Supreme Court upholds treason convictions of 2 journalists, raising press freedom questions

Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the treason convictions and 14-year prison sentences of journalists Phorn Sopheap and Pheap Pheara, who were accused of posting Facebook photos...

Amnesty says Cambodia scam centers still operating despite crackdowns

Rights group says collusion between compound managers and police undermined interventions Cambodian government rejects report, cites ongoing enforcement and challenges from transna...

Former Cambodian Opposition Leader Kem Sokha Granted Royal Pardon

The move comes as the country's government faces growing scrutiny for its role in handling an explosion of online scam centers and organized crime.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

BANGKOK — Seven hundred days after activists from the environmental group Mother Nature Cambodia were imprisoned on charges widely regarded as retaliatory for their activism, 73 in...

Cambodian opposition leader partially pardoned amid reputational pressures

Hun Sen Feels the Heat

The Cambodian autocrat’s anti-scam rhetoric and pardoning of Kem Sokha suggest that outside pressure is starting to work. That's all the more reason to intensify it.

Cambodia Supreme Court upholds treason convictions of 2 journalists, raising press freedom questions

Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the treason convictions and 14-year prison sentences of journalists Phorn Sopheap and Pheap Pheara, according to local media. The court re...

Cambodia's democracy died slowly after Kem Ley's murder

A rights group warns Vietnam is ramping up arrests under broad laws to crush dissent

A rights group is warning that Vietnam is increasingly using broadly worded laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others seen as threats to Communist Party rule

Cambodian interior minister hires US law firms to fight scam link claims

Multiple Nations in Bid to Round Up Fleeing Cambodian Scamsters

US seizes infrastructure of Cambodian financial group for money laundering

Arrests Spike as Vietnam Sees New ‘Wave of Repression,’ Rights Group Says

The Bangkok-based advocacy group Project88 documented 56 political arrests last year, the most in any year since 2018.

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — Ruos Lim knows what is at stake as he sets off with 10 men to patrol the Chom Penh forest. Lim is part of the Kuy people who have relied on the forests in...

Cambodia cracked down on scams costing Americans billions. It created a new crisis

Cambodia's crackdown on scam centers has created a secondary crisis: thousands of stranded foreign workers are now roaming the streets of Phnom Penh.

Months after scam crackdown, thousands remain stuck in Cambodia

US Government Imposes Fresh Sanctions Against Alleged Cambodian Scam Network

The Treasury Department has designated nine people and 26 ‌entities linked to Prince Holding Group, which it has described as a "transnational criminal organization."

Cambodia to Mark May 28 as the Beginning of its Border War With Thailand

The country's ruling party is using an unnecessary conflict as a chance to build up its political myth.

Cambodia scam centers increase despite crackdown, report says

Cambodia, alongside Myanmar and Laos, has become a hub for scam compounds where trafficked workers are often forced to carry out fraud schemes.

Vietnam dissident arrests double under leader To Lam, report says

Vietnam is increasingly using broadly written laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others that authorities consider a threat to the Communist Party’s rule, according to a new a...

Cambodia orders Africans to leave the country

Those who don't leave Cambodia face arrest and prosecution under immigration laws.