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Boat racers practicing on Tonle Sap a day before the Water Festival from November 14 to 16, 2024 in Phnom Penh. Photo taken on November 13, 2024. (CamboJA/ Pring Samrang)

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All Systems In Place For Annual Water Festival Boat Race in Phnom Penh

13 Nov 2024 9:29 PM|
CamboJA Staff|

Phnom Penh’s riverside is all prepared for the annual Water Festival from November 14 to 16 this year as the organizing committee of the National Committee for Organizing National and International Festivals worked with the authorities to decorate and ensure the place was clean, while maintaining security and order. Amid this excitement, boat teams from all over the country were seen practicing for the race that will take place over the next three days.

The representatives of CENTRAL and CFAT cooperated with the LPN foundation to help resolve the cases of 38 Cambodian workers who were cheated by migration brokers in Ban Kao area, Phan Thong district of Chon Buri province in Thailand, on May 29, 2022. Photo: CENTRAL

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Cambodian citizens continue to migrate illegally to Thailand

9 Jun 2022 4:12 PM|

The number of workers illegally migrating to Thailand continued to increase at the start of the year, many of them cheated by their brokers, according to the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL).

Residents drive motorcycles down a flooded road in Phnom Penh, Picture taken June 3, 2022. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Ever so slowly, expensive anti-flood systems replace natural drainage in Phnom Penh

6 Jun 2022 8:50 AM|

Every time heavy rains hit Sen Sok district’s O'Bek Ka'am commune, the home of street vendor Da Vika, 31, becomes flooded.

A Chinese company's warehouse is seen at the site of a land dispute in Trapaing Pring commune in Tbong Khmum province. Picture taken May 28, 2022. CamboJA/ Khuon Narim

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Villagers in land dispute hope new commune councillors will help

1 Jun 2022 3:21 PM|

Dambe district, Tbong Khmum province: Residents of Trapaing Pring commune who are involved in a land dispute with a Chinese company say they’ll be voting for whichever commune councillor they think can best help them when they go to the polls this weekend.

The CENTRAL base in Thailand providing emergency assistance and disseminating information on migrant workers' rights to Cambodian workers staying at the electronics factory in Chonburi province, on February 7, 2022. Photo: CENTRAL

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Many Cambodian migrant workers abroad unable to vote in commune election

26 May 2022 2:53 PM|

More than 2 million Cambodian migrant workers living overseas will be unable to vote in the June 5 commune election because they couldn’t afford to return to the country to register to vote or are unable to get permission to leave from their employers.

Members of the Cambodian People’s Party campaign and distribute leaflets of party candidates among the railway community that faces eviction in Boeng Kak II commune, Tuol Kork district, Phnom Penh. Photo taken on May 24, 2022. CamboJA/ Sorn Sarath

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Railway families remain uncertain as commune election candidates silent on their relocation

26 May 2022 10:33 AM|

Seng Pha, 63, is unable to read the leaflets of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) posted on the wall of her wooden house, but she recognises one of the candidates running for commune chief, out of a total of 35, in Boeung Kak II commune.

A young girl using a smart phone in Phnom Penh, May 13, 2022. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Parents of children with autism struggle with the effects of mobile phone usage

24 May 2022 3:11 PM|

Sorn Sok Kheang, a 29-year-old video producer in Teuk Thla commune of Sen Sok district, was worried and upset when she noticed her son was slow to speak in his early years. Up to the age of three, sometimes all he said was “dad” and “mom” in a day. When she consulted specialists, they told her he had autism.

More than 400 poor farmers submit a petition at the Sre Ambel District Hall in Koh Kong Province, asking for social land concessions for farming. Photo taken on May 5, 2022. Supplied by CCFC

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Impoverished Koh Kong Community Asks Government for Land

10 May 2022 11:18 AM|

Landless families in Koh Kong’s impoverished “Community 766” have petitioned the government to provide them with a social land concession where they can live and farm, community representatives said this week.

Villagers from Koh Kong gather in front of the Interior Ministry in Phnom Penh, seeking intervention in a land dispute with Heng Huy. Picture taken March 28, 2022. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Koh Kong villagers still seeking resolution to 20-year land dispute with Cambodian tycoon

6 May 2022 2:50 PM|

Hundreds of villagers in Koh Kong province are still stuck in a protracted land dispute with the Cambodian tycoon Heng Huy. Almost 20 years have passed, but there appears to be no resolution in sight. All this time, having lost their farming lands, they have struggled to maintain their livelihoods.