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A boy uses his mother’s smartphone in Kampong Cham province. Sept. 3, 2025. (Photo: Chanleap Pin)

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Op-Ed: Introducing Age-Based Restrictions on Unsupervised Smartphone Use in Cambodian Schools

4 Sep 2025 9:54 AM|
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Cambodia should introduce national guidelines to restrict unsupervised smartphone use for pupils under 14 during school hours. The aim of this policy would be to mitigate against the potential harms of smartphones without stunting digital skills. A hybrid, inclusive approach would achieve this balance.

A police’s truck brings Candlelight Party Vice President Thach Setha and other prisoners from Phnom Penh Municipal Court to prison after hearings on September 6, 2023. (CamboJA/Pring Samrang)

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Candlelight Leader Thach Setha’s Lawyers Decry “Fake” Evidence in Trial’s Closing Arguments

6 Sep 2023 5:47 PM|

Lawyers for Candlelight Party Vice President Thach Setha, who faces prison time for allegedly issuing bad checks, claimed prosecutors were relying on “fake” evidence during closing arguments at Phnom Penh…

A man drives his motorbike past the ice factory on September 4, 2023. (CamboJA/Pring Samrang)

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Ice Factory Ordered to Suspend Operations After Causing Sickness

6 Sep 2023 2:20 PM|

Phnom Penh authorities suspended the operations of an ice factory after an ammonia gas leak last Friday caused more than 30 people living nearby to experience severe sickness from the…

A map of the land concession, off of the coast of Kep province, awarded to Tycoon Khun Sea's TP Moral Group. (Licadho)

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Tycoon’s Company Receives 1,247 Hectares Along Kep Coastal Waters for Satellite City Development

5 Sep 2023 6:41 PM|

A company linked to tycoon Khun Sear, TP Moral Group, received 1,247 hectares of coastal waters in Kep province to develop a new satellite city and “special tourism zone” according…

Kuy indigenous people at Chheb district in Preah Vihear province held a “curse ceremony” on August 28. (Supplied)

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Ethnic Kuy Put Curse on Environment Officials Building Cow Stable in Wildlife Sanctuary

5 Sep 2023 5:42 PM|

Kuy indigenous peoples in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district invoked ancestral spirits and held a “curse ceremony” to hex powerful people, including department of environment officials who they say are…

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Burning Homes in the Name of Conservation: NGO Wildlife Alliance Cracks Down on the Poor

5 Sep 2023 11:18 AM|

An investigation into home destruction and other tactics of the NGO Wildlife Alliance's ranger patrols as they crack down on poor farmers in and around the Cardamom National Park.

New Prime Minister Hun Manet speaks at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on August 22, 2023. (Supplied)

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Hun Manet Awarded the Samdech Title, Along with National Assembly President

4 Sep 2023 6:59 PM|

Prime Minister Hun Manet received the honorific title Samdech on Saturday via Royal decree.

A map of scam centers included in a UN report entitled Online Scam Operations and Trafficking into Forced Criminality in Southeast Asia: Recommendations for a Human Rights Response. (UN OHCHR)

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UN Estimates 100,000 Trafficked Into Cambodian Scam Operations, Officials Ask “Where Are They?”

2 Sep 2023 5:37 PM|

At least 100,000 people have been forced to carry out online scams in Cambodia, according to a UN Human Rights report released Tuesday, but Cambodian government officials say they want…

A screenshot from a video of the incident showing a soldier with an AK-47 strapped over his shoulder while other soldiers survey an area of long-disputed land in Siem Reap province, taken on August 28, 2023. (Supplied)

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Siem Reap Officials Pull Up Hundreds of Mango Trees Planted on Disputed Land

1 Sep 2023 6:01 PM|

Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers and environmental officials uprooted and confiscated mango trees planted by Chop Saom community members on long-disputed land in Siem Reap province.

Op-Ed: Introducing Age-Based Restrictions on Unsupervised Smartphone Use in Cambodian Schools

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Ethnic Kuy Put Curse on Environment Officials Building Cow Stable in Wildlife Sanctuary

Burning Homes in the Name of Conservation: NGO Wildlife Alliance Cracks Down on the Poor

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