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Ngeth Moses, a digital security consultant, and Chy Sophat, a digital security expert and member of the Local Guides community, present an investigative report on manipulated Google Maps locations in Cambodia. August 6, 2025. (Chy Sophat’s Facebook page)

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Cambodia Sites Targeted in Google Maps Edits, Digital Expert Report Says

10 Sep 2025 7:59 PM|
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Digital expert mappers in Google’s Local Guides program said they flagged hundreds of policy-breaching edits on Google Maps involving Cambodia’s sacred sites, cities and border towns.

Laborers work at a construction site in Phnom Penh on November 2, 2023. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Cambodia Has Committed to Ban Asbestos In 2025, No Move To Ban Imports Yet

3 Nov 2023 12:01 PM|

The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MLVT) and relevant partners would implement an action plan to ban asbestos from 2025 under the third Master Plan on Occupational Safety and…

Say Saroeun stands next to her handcart in front of her rental home in a poor community in Tuol Kork, on September 26, 2023. (CamboJA/Seoung Nimol)

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UN Reports Decreased Poverty in Cambodia, While School Dropout Rates Persist

1 Nov 2023 5:15 PM|

The number of poor people in Cambodia has halved since 2014, from 5.6 million to 2.8 million in 2022, according to a UN report.

Family members at Chan Oudom’s funeral in Kandal Province on October 8, 2023. (Supplied)

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Body of Cambodian Student, Perished in Hamas-Israel Conflict, Arrives Home

25 Oct 2023 8:12 PM|

The body of Cambodian student Chan Oudom, killed in his Israeli apartment after it was hit by missiles fired by Hamas on October 7, 2023, arrived in Cambodia on Monday…

Mother Nature activists march on their way to submit a petition to the Ministry of Environment in Phnom Penh, on August 23, 2022. (CamboJA/ Sovann Sreypich)

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Court Bars Mother Nature Activists from Leaving the Country to Accept International Award

3 Oct 2023 5:01 PM|

The Phnom Penh Court has blocked three environmental activists, currently on probation for convictions related to their advocacy, from leaving the country to receive a prestigious international award.

Pu Lu villager farmer Maly Kim stands on his three hectare farm which Socfin had cleared and planted with rubber trees, which Kim now farms; however, the company demands he pay back the costs of planting and preparing the land. (CamboJA/Jack Brook)

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Years-Long Mediation Leaves Bunong Farmers Indebted to Multinational Rubber Firm

27 Sep 2023 3:16 PM|

More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province,…

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.

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