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Cambodian workers flock back home through the Dong border checkpoint in Battambang province on the morning of July 27, 2025. (CamboJA/ Sok Phearun)

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Debt Forces A Fraction of Cambodian Migrant Workers to Stay in Thailand Despite Fear

5 Sep 2025 4:19 PM|
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Due to debts owed to Thai employers, Chan Sophana must continue working in a durian plantation in Chanthaburi province, unable to return to his hometown in Siem Reap province despite fear of racial discrimination engendered by Thai nationalists following the deadly five-day Cambodia-Thailand conflict on July 24.

Ith Sothoeuth, director of the Media Department of the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM), gives an interview to the media in front of VOD's office in Phnom Penh on February 13, 2023. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

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Voice of Democracy To Resume Broadcasting Overseas, Unaffiliated with CCIM

20 Sep 2023 6:00 PM|

The government-shuttered media outlet Voice of Democracy (VOD) announced it will resume broadcasting from the United States beginning in October, according to a Tuesday press release posted on the VOD…

A Phnom Penh office of Prasac Microfinance Institution Plc, which as of February had an active loan of $10 million from Dutch social investor Oikocredit, photographed on December 9, 2022. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

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Complaint Advances Against Investor Oikocredit For Role in Microfinance Sector’s Abuses

19 Sep 2023 2:50 PM|

A Dutch government watchdog group accepted a complaint last Friday alleging that social investor Oikocredit contributed to abuses in Cambodia’s microfinance sector.

A man works near a DBLY Tower in Phnom Penh on September 15, 2023. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

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Wife of Environment Ministry Secretary of State Denies Knowledge of Alleged Online Scam Gang Renting Her Building

18 Sep 2023 4:39 PM|

The wife of an Environment Ministry secretary of state denied knowledge of an alleged online scam gang inside a Phnom Penh apartment complex owned by her company.

A Candlelight Party sign at the party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh on April 4, 2022. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

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Banteay Meanchey Court Charges Six Candlelight Officials With Incitement

15 Sep 2023 7:50 PM|

Banteay Meanchey Court charged six Candlelight party officials with incitement and fraud and sent them to the provincial prison on Thursday evening, according to party spokesperson and NGO Licadho.

Ma Sarim holds a document for a loan he used to invest in the Piphup Deimeas company, photographed on August 23, 2023. (CamboJA/Sovann Sreyich)

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Victims of Tycoon’s Alleged Land Fraud Turn to Child Labor and Migration To Repay Debt

15 Sep 2023 5:59 PM|

Like many of her neighbors in Kampong Cham, Seang Sinath borrowed tens of thousands of dollars to invest in a tycoon’s land scheme, falling into overindebtedness when the company stopped…

A trail running through the French Embassy Park. (CamboJA/Josephine Grace Sta Ana Baliling)

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The French Embassy Holds One of Phnom Penh’s Largest Parks, But It’s Rarely Open to the Public

15 Sep 2023 12:07 PM|

A rusted gate, torn from its fence decades ago by the Khmer Rouge, stands lonely as a silent monument inside a circle of hedges. Standing in front of it, surrounded…

Ny Nak, social activist, was attacked by a group of unknown assailants and is recovering at a clinic in Phnom Penh on September 14, 2023. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

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Family of Violently Beaten Government Critic Seeks Justice

14 Sep 2023 6:18 PM|

Phnom Penh police say they are investigating a brutal assault against a vocal critic of government policies, as civil society groups say the incident is the latest in an ongoing…

The Stong District Police Station in Kampong Thom province. The district police chief was removed from his role after a relative of his with a criminal record was appointed as a commune chief in his district.

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District Police Chief Demoted After Removal of Commune Police Chief With Criminal Record

13 Sep 2023 5:23 PM|

A district police chief in Kampong Thom province was removed from his position after a commune police chief in his district was demoted for previously serving prison time for theft.…

Debt Forces A Fraction of Cambodian Migrant Workers to Stay in Thailand Despite Fear

Voice of Democracy To Resume Broadcasting Overseas, Unaffiliated with CCIM

Banteay Meanchey Court Charges Six Candlelight Officials With Incitement

Victims of Tycoon’s Alleged Land Fraud Turn to Child Labor and Migration To Repay Debt

The French Embassy Holds One of Phnom Penh’s Largest Parks, But It’s Rarely Open to the Public

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Debt Forces A Fraction of Cambodian Migrant Workers to Stay in Thailand Despite Fear

Voice of Democracy To Resume Broadcasting Overseas, Unaffiliated with CCIM

Complaint Advances Against Investor Oikocredit For Role in Microfinance Sector’s Abuses

Wife of Environment Ministry Secretary of State Denies Knowledge of Alleged Online Scam Gang Renting Her Building

Banteay Meanchey Court Charges Six Candlelight Officials With Incitement

Victims of Tycoon’s Alleged Land Fraud Turn to Child Labor and Migration To Repay Debt

The French Embassy Holds One of Phnom Penh’s Largest Parks, But It’s Rarely Open to the Public

Family of Violently Beaten Government Critic Seeks Justice

District Police Chief Demoted After Removal of Commune Police Chief With Criminal Record

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