At least 10 families are demanding compensation from a private company, which cleared farms and forest land to build an access road to explore iron ore mining in Preah Vihear province.
A Cambodian woman who sought political asylum in Thailand after she was arrested and jailed for throwing a shoe at a billboard that featured a photo of then-Prime Minister Hun Sen has arrived in Canada.
Human Rights Watch report said, “Cambodia’s self-characterisation as a democratic government does not reflect the reality. Cambodia is effectively a single-party state with fixed and controlled elections, a lack of independent media, ruling party interference and control of all state institutions, political control of the judiciary, and systematic harassment and targeting critics of the political opposition and civil society.”
