‘Middle way’, outside shot: GDP members see victory in July election as a possibility
Ever since the dissolution of the main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the progressive Grassroots Democracy Party has found itself between a rock and a hard place.
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The war on drugs’ youngest inmates
Publication date 27 April 2018 | 06:11 | ICTA gurgling baby boy clings to the collar of his mother’s state-issued orange jumpsuit. He has her nose, and her wide brown eyes.
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Stock photo agencies cash in on Khmer Rouge tragedy
Publication date 23 April 2018 | 06:14 | ICTA woman with short-cropped hair stares directly into the camera, her head cocked slightly to the side. On her lap is a sleeping infant just barely in the frame.
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Twenty years after Pol Pot died a broken man, his memory looms large
Publication date 13 April 2018 | 06:23 | ICTTwo decades have passed, but Mea Chron still stands by Pol Pot. Most days he also stands by the mass murderer’s cremation site, keeping guard in the Khmer Rouge’s last stronghold of Anlong Veng.
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The river tern protectors: As endangered bird’s population increases, experts say gains still fragile
Publication date 06 April 2018 | 06:58 | ICTIn a spare wooden shelter just metres from the Mekong, Meak Phoeurn smiled, creases stretching from his eyes, and began to croon: “Oh my dear, look at the birds happily flying.”
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Mekong leaders urged to act
Publication date 05 April 2018 | 06:17 | ICTThe future of the Mekong River – and potentially the food and economic security of Cambodia – is up for discussion this week, with Prime Minister Hun Sen and the leaders of Vietnam, Thailand and Laos expected to make a declaration o
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How ancient pottery techniques are getting a reboot in Kampong Chhnang
Publication date 02 April 2018 | 07:42 | ICTIn a little shack in Andong Russey village, at the foot of Phnom Krang Dei Meas mountain, Grandma Moun slaps into shape the round-bottomed clay pot that is the de facto symbol of Kampong Chhnang province.
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Report gives voice to mothers deceived by Cambodia’s orphanage racket
Publication date 30 March 2018 | 06:30 | ICTWhen, as a new mother in 2001, Kim Bunnath walked into her home after visiting her sick mother in Kampot province, she saw no sign of her baby boy.
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Lack of funding for traffic issues puts government’s commitment to road safety in question
Publication date 27 March 2018 | 06:38 | ICTCambodia is at risk of failing to reach its road safety goals unless it steps up its funding, experts and NGO representatives say, undermining efforts in recent years to regulate the country’s chaotic traffic.
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US funding conditional on Cambodia’s release of political prisoners, reinstatement of CNRP
Publication date 23 March 2018 | 17:24 | ICTThe United States has passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that looks to cut funding for Cambodia unless the country releases all political prisoners and reinstates the opposition CNRP. The provisions in the bill on Cambodia call for US programs to counter the influence of China – whose ever-
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As logging changes Mondulkiri, ethnic Phnong are reaping only meagre gains from major loss
Publication date 23 March 2018 | 08:42 | ICTThey arrive in a cloud of exhaust, tyres slick with mud from yesterday’s rain. In front of an abandoned police checkpoint, deep in the jungle near the Vietnamese border, six men in their teens and 20s light cigarettes and take swigs of water as they look over their motorbikes.
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