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Cambodian border affairs minister Lam Chea shakes hands with Thai foreign ministry adviser Prasas Prasasvinitchai before the start of Joint Boundary Committee talks in Phnom Penh, June 14, 2025. (AKP)

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Border Talks With Thailand Extended, Disputed Sites Off Table and Bound for ICJ

14 Jun 2025 7:15 PM|
Khuon Narim|

The Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Committee meeting in Phnom Penh on Saturday, the first since a fatal border clash ignited tensions, was extended by a day, with few details on progress and after Prime Minister Hun Manet issued late-night demands on the eve of talks outlining what was off-limits.

Students clean their hands as they return for the 2021 school year at Bak Touk High School in Phnom Penh on Monday. Panha Chhorpoan

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New academic year begins with 30 border schools still closed for quarantine

11 Jan 2021 9:01 PM|

Millions of students began a new academic year on Monday following a year of interruptions by the Covid-19 pandemic, while about 35 schools along the border remain closed for learning…

Dos Kimteang stands with an image of her jailed husband outside the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh on January 8. Panha Chhorpoan

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The price of protest: With husbands locked up, families of alleged activists drown in debt

11 Jan 2021 5:15 PM|

Armed with a giant photograph of her jailed husband, Dos Kimteang went to the U.S. Embassy on Friday knowing that the day’s protest could be her last.

Lam Socheat, from the Advocacy and Policy Institute, speaks at a press conference about the draft access to information law in September 2020. Panha Chhorpoan

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Gov’t says draft access to information law delayed by COVID-19 pandemic

6 Jan 2021 7:32 PM|

The Cambodian government again failed to pass the long-delayed draft access to information legislation, despite Prime Minister Hun Sen assuring its passage at the start of 2020.

Cambodian migrant workers returning from Thailand are quarantined at a high school in Battambang province in a photo posted to the provincial administration's Facebook page.

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Students to miss start of new year as migrant workers quarantine in schools near border

6 Jan 2021 11:56 AM|

Thousands of students in the northwest will miss the beginning of the new school year next week, with at least ten schools along the border having been converted into Covid-19…

Former CNRP officials leave Phnom Penh Municipal Court in a prison truck on December 30 after being convicted on incitement charges related to Sam Rainsy’s failed plan to return to Cambodia in 2019. Panha Chhorpoan

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New Year, old politics: no sign of political compromise as lawsuits against Rainsy stack up

5 Jan 2021 2:53 PM|

When exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy called the king a puppet in December, Cambodia’s courts quickly slapped him with charges under the lese majeste law that was passed through the…

Former CNRP leader Mu Sochua has delayed her planned return to January 17, ensuring that she will miss a trial against more than 130 former party members and supporters on January 14.

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More CNRP activists arrested ahead of Mu Sochua’s planned return

5 Jan 2021 9:28 AM|

Around 20 former Cambodia National Rescue Party members and activists have been arrested or “educated” and released in the run up to the planned return of former party vice president…

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17 Cambodians positive for Covid-19 as migrant workers continue to flee outbreak in Thailand

4 Jan 2021 10:24 PM|

Seventeen Cambodians have tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from Thailand since December 20, the Health Ministry said, reiterating calls to follow strict protocol as migrant workers continue to flood…

Screenshots from the Mother Nature video reveal large tracts of land cleared within the Bokor National Park in Kampot province.

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Sokha group clearing Bokor National Park forests for massive housing projects

4 Jan 2021 4:35 PM|

An environmental group said large swathes of the Preah Monivong Bokor National Park in Kampot province were being cleared to make way for multiple development projects, with government officials saying…

Border Talks With Thailand Extended, Disputed Sites Off Table and Bound for ICJ

New academic year begins with 30 border schools still closed for quarantine

The price of protest: With husbands locked up, families of alleged activists drown in debt

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Students to miss start of new year as migrant workers quarantine in schools near border

New Year, old politics: no sign of political compromise as lawsuits against Rainsy stack up

More CNRP activists arrested ahead of Mu Sochua’s planned return

17 Cambodians positive for Covid-19 as migrant workers continue to flee outbreak in Thailand

Sokha group clearing Bokor National Park forests for massive housing projects

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