BY BUTH KIMSAY AND MICHAEL DICKISON | SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 Anti-human trafficking police raided two Phnom Penh brothels on Tuesday, freeing eight girls believed to be underage, officials said on Wednesday. In one case, police descended on an unmarked tin shack at the base of Phnom Penh’s dilapidated White Building, where three women running the…
Once upon a time, long before Angelina Jolie got a mastectomy, she adopted a Cambodian child. As a result, privileged Westerners of all nationalities flocked to the country’s orphanages in the hope of simultaneously nurturing a child and their own sense of self-worth. In 2012 alone, Cambodia was visited by 3.5 million tourists, so I…
Arbitrary restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly continued. A law came into force severely threatening the right to freedom of association. Impunity continued for human rights violations in the policing of demonstrations in 2013 and 2014, including deaths resulting from the unnecessary and excessive use of force. Political activists and…
Afternoon is fading fast and Nget Thy is waiting for the Neak Loeung Ferry to cross the Mekong River in southern Cambodia. His destination is a transit center near the Vietnam border, where his small staff rescues and shelters children from Cambodia who’ve been taken from their homes and sent across the border to work…
Recent developments in Cambodia merit attention as the country’s political leaders appear to be returning to their respective corners in what would be a lengthy lead-up to the national elections in July 2018. If this is what is happening, collateral damage will include the country’s political stability. In July 2013 Cambodia plunged into a period…
Cambodia is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Cambodian adults and children migrate to other countries within the region and increasingly to the Middle East for work; many are subjected to forced labor on fishing vessels, in agriculture, in construction, in factories, and…
A British man was found dead in a Cambodian guest house, before another tourist found with him discharged himself from hospital and went missing. He has been named as 34-year-old Martin Stephen Hale from County Down, in Northern Ireland. It is understood a second man – also from Northern Ireland – was taken to hospital.…
The german couple suspected of attempted insurance fraud at the police station. (Photo: National Police) PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – On Monday a German couple went to the local police in Kor Kong Province and reported that they had been robbed. They claimed that their bags had been stolen in village 1, Smach Mianjey…
More South Koreans have been embarking on extra-marital affairs since the nation’s top court abolished a law that made adultery illegal and punishable with a prison term. A survey conducted by Macromill Embrain in August determined that 39.3 percent of South Korean men and 10.8 percent of women have been unfaithful to their spouses. For…
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