Some 150 out of Southeast Asia’s 230 licensed casinos are located in Cambodia after a “dramatic increase” that followed a crackdown on money laundering in
At the urging of party leaders, political activists across the country gathered to eat num banh chok on Sunday, June 9.
A joint statement issued this morning by 85 NGOs, local community groups, trade unions and political observers called on citizens to “join forces” over a recent deterioration in Cambodia’s human rights environment.
The U.N.’s rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia concluded her fact-finding mission on Thursday by saying she hoped for a change in the country’s “aggressive” political culture.
Cambodia’s rapid 7.5 percent GDP growth last year came amid ballooning private debt, increased reliance on an uncertain construction boom, and threats to the country’s main exports due to politics, according to recent reports from the World Bank and National Bank of Cambodia.
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