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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) names Mech Dara a 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report Hero for his work on Cambodian scam compounds

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Award-winning Cambodian journalist arrested for ‘incitement to cause chaos’

An award-winning Cambodian journalist known for reporting on human trafficking in the cyber scam industry has been arrested, police said Tuesday. Mech Dara was...

AFPOctober 1, 2024

Rong Chhun arriving at the Phnom Penh municipal court on September 20, 2024

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Cambodian opposition figure in court on incitement charge

An outspoken Cambodian opposition politician appeared in court Friday for questioning on new charges, the latest in a series of legal cases brought by...

AFPSeptember 20, 2024

The Southern Cardamom project is intended to protect over 450,000 hectares of rainforest

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Controversial Cambodia carbon credit project reinstated

A carbon credit scheme in Cambodia that was put on hold after allegations of rights abuses has been reinstated after more than a year...

AFPSeptember 11, 2024

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet and his wife press a button launch the Funan Techo Canal project

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Cambodia PM launches project linking Mekong river to sea via canal

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday launched a controversial $1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong...

AFPAugust 5, 2024

People attend the ground breaking ceremony of the Funan Techo Canal in Kandal province in Cambodia

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Cambodia PM launches project linking Mekong river to sea via canal

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday launched a controversial $1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong...

AFPAugust 4, 2024

Sok Rom, a 56-year-old widow, told AFP she struggles to sleep due to worries over where she will live after making way for the new Funan Techo canal

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‘I feel empty’: Cambodians on canal route await fate

Food stand owner Dem Mech wells up as he sits in the yard of the home he will lose if Cambodia proceeds with a...

AFPJuly 17, 2024

Workers use excavators to dig the Funan Techo canal, a $1.7 billion project that will run from the Mekong river to the Gulf of Thailand

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Cambodia looks to ‘breathe’ with controversial new canal

Dust covers everything in Lim Tong Eng’s yard, thrown up by excavators toiling next door to enlarge a channel that Cambodia’s government hopes will...

AFPJuly 17, 2024

Buddhist monks chanted blessings and threw flowers to welcome the artefacts back to Cambodia

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Trafficked Cambodian artefacts returned from US

Buddhist monks in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh chanted blessings and threw flowers on Thursday to welcome 14 trafficked artefacts repatriated from the Metropolitan...

AFPJuly 4, 2024