Michelle Bachelet says the Cambodian government is clamping down hard on civic activists, perceived dissidents.
Media associations say Cambodia should use the country’s press law rather than a criminal prosecution for journalism cases.
Asia Centre executive director Robin Ramcharan discusses the reduction in online freedom of expression in Cambodia and increased surveillance of its rapidly growing number of internet users.
The Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association recorded 35 cases of harassment against 72 journalists in 2020, with imprisonment and violence the most common violations.
The victims, mainly from Africa and Asia, said they were ordered to create fake profiles on Tinder, WhatsApp, and Facebook to entice people into fraudulent investment schemes involving cryptocurrencies, foreign exchange, and shares.
New Zealand's worst terror attack was the Christchurch mosques shootings in March 2019, when a white supremacist gunman murdered 51 Muslim worshippers and severely wounded another 40.
Broadcasters must "resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal aesthetics," the TV regulator said, using an insulting slang term for effeminate men — "niang pao," or literally, "girlie guns."
The Accords helped end the civil war, after which Prime Minister Hun Sen eroded its democratic provisions. Yet, it could still provide a basis for a democratic future.
Danny Fenster, 37, is managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, an independent online news outlet based in Yangon, the Southeast Asian nation’s largest city.
The sentences ranged from 11 to 16 months. All the defendants except for Wong are already serving jail time on other illegal assembly charges.
China had already restricted the amount of time minors could play video games, allowing 1.5 hours per day and three hours on holidays.
The longan farmer was arrested earlier this week and the Battambang court unusually fast-tracked the conviction.
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