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Scaffolding is seen outside the Huione Pay office after its sign was removed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 7, 2025. (CamboJA/Pring Samrang)

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Huione Pay Removes Sign After U.S. Blacklist Move

7 May 2025 3:00 PM|
Seoung Nimol|

Phnom Penh-based Huione Pay was seen taking down its signage on Wednesday, six days after the U.S. Treasury flagged its parent, Huione Group, as a primary money laundering concern and moved to cut it off from the U.S. financial system.

A motorcyclist drives past Preah Vihear provincial prison on December 15, 2021. CamboJA/ Vann Vichar

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Seng Theary secretly transferred to Preah Vihear prison

17 Jun 2022 8:29 PM|

Prominent Cambodian American lawyer and human rights advocate Seng Theary has been quietly transferred from prison in Phnom Penh to a facility in the far northern province of Preah Vihear,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…