In 2023, Cambodia commenced a new chapter in its political history. The country went through the inevitable motions of elections, enabling a generational transition in government after four decades of ...

Thirty years ago today, Hun Sen, then 33, was appointed prime minister by the National Assembly of the socialist People’s Republic of Kampuchea, becoming the world’s youngest head of government. For ...

The prevailing arguments about Cambodia’s close relationship with China have centred on three key propositions. First, there is the notion that China has ‘captured’ the Cambodian ruling elites through ...

Cambodia’s capital has renamed a major road after Chinese President Xi Jinping in recognition of the country’s friendly relationship with China. At the request of the Cambodian government, Beijing has ...

The World Bank Board of Directors has approved a $275 million credit to support Cambodia’s efforts to promote long-term economic growth and resilience. This financing, sourced from the low-interest ...

Despite a series of setbacks over the past years, the Cambodian apparel exports have finally made some progress in the first five months of 2024, with exports up by more than 22 percent over the ...

Sitting on the veranda of a stilted house, a group of Cambodian fishers drink tea and sort crabs into buckets as they discuss when they might have to leave their homes. In 2020, Boeng Thom Angkep, a ...

Maybe it’s a Cambodian American thing, but whenever someone from our community becomes successful and makes the news, our ears tend to perk up, and we take notice. So it’s no surprise that when chef ...

Cambodia has blocked any reference to a U.N.-backed court’s ruling against Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea in an Asean statement and is pushing to remove a previously routine phrase expressing ...

François Ponchaud, the French missionary who revealed the reality of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the outside world, has died aged 85. Ponchaud spent 56 years of his life as a missionary in Cambodia, and ...

Chea Chantha, an advocate for the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), has been detained by police and is facing a three year jail term if convicted of conducting “activities ...

From his house in Prek Takeo on the banks of the Mekong river, an hour’s drive from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Mao Sarin can watch ships laden with containers chug by on their way to Vietnam and the ...