With American congressmen calling Prime Minister Hun Sen a “dictator” during a short debate, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would sanction
UPDATED 2:51 P.M. Thirty-seven Cambodians arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday morning after being deported by the U.S. government, most of them following jail terms in the U.S.
A leaked U.S. letter to Defense Minister Tea Banh said speculation was mounting in the U.S. government of Cambodian plans to host Chinese military assets
The U.S. says it is “deeply concerned” about the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision Wednesday to sentence the translator for a documentary about alleged underage
Cambodia was downgraded to the “Tier 2 Watch List” in the latest U.S. human trafficking report, criticized for failing to act on debt slavery at brick factories and for using anti-trafficking laws against political opposition figures.
John Gunther Dean, the U.S. ambassador in Phnom Penh in the lead-up to the Khmer Rouge’s 1975 takeover and a career U.S. diplomat who blamed
Prime Minister Hun Sen has not been afraid of making his feelings clear about U.S. pressure on Cambodia’s dire record on human rights and democracy.
The U.S. State Department said it was “deeply troubled” by the death of a former opposition official in detention amid a wave of judicial harassment against ex-members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).
The Phnom Penh embassies of the U.S. and China — whose governments have a dubious history of destabilizing Cambodia for their own geopolitical ends and both stoked and prolonged the country’s two-decades-long civil war — have become embroiled in their second Internet flame war over the country this year.
The Commerce Ministry asked a visiting Washington State senator to encourage more U.S. investment to Cambodia, saying there were many opportunities for investors.
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