Sam Sopich

A staff works at a hotel in Phnom Penh, December 11, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Though the tourism sector is officially back, hospitality workers are still waiting for full recovery

11 Dec 2021 5:32 PM|
Sam Sopich|

“I always think about how to find money to pay [debts] and support my family with little savings and reduced spending. It’s high pressure and my wife cannot work because she has to take care of my children,” he said.

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Though the tourism sector is officially back, hospitality workers are still waiting for full recovery

11 Dec 2021 5:32 PM|
Sam Sopich|

A prison truck brings former CNRP activists and inmates to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on December 7, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

National ·

Phnom Penh Municipal Court resumes trials of opposition party activists

7 Dec 2021 9:17 PM|
Sam Sopich|

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today resumed the first of a series of trials involving 44 opposition party activists charged with plotting and incitement to cause social chaos in connection to the failed attempt by leading opposition figure Sam Rainsy to return to Cambodia from exile on November 9, 2019. The trials had been delayed for several months due to COVID-19.

Representatives of the Naga World staff arrive the Labour Ministry to reinstate for a meeting in Phnom Penh, December 3, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Business ·

Impasse Over NagaWorld Layoffs After Union Leaders Meet Labor Ministry Official

4 Dec 2021 12:05 PM|
Sam Sopich|

A meeting between the Ministry of Labor and the unions representing NagaWorld workers made little headway on Friday and ended with the laid-off casino staff vowing to go ahead with a mass protest this month.

The NagaWorld casino and hotel complex as seen in Phnom Penh, December 1, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Business ·

Civil society organizations and unions express disappointment with NagaWorld layoffs

2 Dec 2021 3:39 PM|
Sam Sopich|

25 organizations, associations and unions have expressed their disappointment with Phnom Penh casino NagaWorld for what they describe as its attempts to dissolve the casino’s union leadership structure, saying that the move was unreasonable and unacceptable during COVID-19.

A female street vendor sells fruit in Phnom Penh, November 30, 2021.CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

Business ·

Entrepreneur program aims to help female street vendors challenged by pandemic, lack of legal status

30 Nov 2021 8:11 PM|
Sam Sopich|

A new training and investment program for female entrepreneurs will target street vendors struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic.

A portrait of the late Sin Khon, an activist associated with the former CNRP, is seen near his mother in Ta Keo province, November 23, 2021. Photo taken by Em Bunnarith

National ·

Sin Khon’s friends and family claim murder was politically motivated

24 Nov 2021 5:19 PM|
Sam Sopich|

Family and friends of murdered student Sin Khon have said that they believe the young opposition activist was targeted in a political assassination, rejecting public statements by police that Khon was killed after getting into an argument with a motorcycle repairmen and his brother while drunk.

Villagers demonstrate in front of police barricades where authorities had blocked a road leading to the villagers' farmland. The disputed land is being cleared as part of the site of the planned mega-airport project in the Kandal Stung district of Kandal province. Picture taken September 12, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

Human Rights ·

Hun Sen urges resolution for land disputes in Monday address, warns analysts for Paris Peace Agreement commentary

8 Nov 2021 9:57 PM|
Sam Sopich|

As Prime Minister Hun Sen urged out-of-court settlements for land disputes during a Monday address on the grounds of the Ministry of Land Management, a crowd of about 100 families waited outside hoping to beseech the country’s top leader for help in disputes of their own.

Met Malen patrols the forest and protects natural resources from loggers in Phnom Chreap Treyksan community, April 2020. Supplied

Environment ·

Behind one young woman’s fight against illegal logging

5 Nov 2021 9:46 AM|
Sam Sopich|

“We get a lot of threats from those criminals, they don’t cooperate with us,” she said. “They are not happy with us when we have arguments and remove their sawmills.”

Though the tourism sector is officially back, hospitality workers are still waiting for full recovery

Though the tourism sector is officially back, hospitality workers are still waiting for full recovery

Phnom Penh Municipal Court resumes trials of opposition party activists

Impasse Over NagaWorld Layoffs After Union Leaders Meet Labor Ministry Official

Civil society organizations and unions express disappointment with NagaWorld layoffs

Sin Khon’s friends and family claim murder was politically motivated

Hun Sen urges resolution for land disputes in Monday address, warns analysts for Paris Peace Agreement commentary

Behind one young woman’s fight against illegal logging

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