Prak Soda's death spotlights the continuing need for rural maternal care. Her husband has alleged negligence in a formal complaint filed with district police.
Beijing and Washington bicker over history in Cambodia, blaming each other for the rise of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.
Some 100 soldiers, police and military police arrived in Koki village in Preah Sihanouk’s Bet Trang commune, opened fire on protesters and critically injuring at least one person.
Many Prek Achi Commune families have opted to send their children to South Korea, where some 54,000 Cambodians have found relatively well-paid jobs.
"Bilateral defense ties have undergone drastic setbacks over the past few years amid Cambodia’s growing closer security ties with China and political tensions surrounding Cambodia’s general elections last year."
Cambodia's prime minister said he “doesn’t allow foreign military bases regardless of whether it’s for naval forces, infantry forces, or air forces.”
For former members of the CNRP, even organizing a private party comes with surveillance and questions from the authorities.
Y Sovann’s unexpected detention caused anger among his fellow villagers, who traveled to Phnom Penh to seek intervention from Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Despite the majority of people in the area being former Khmer Rouge, there are some newcomers who came to do business in Anlong Veng, including restaurants, grocery stores, and entertainment venues.
U.S. tip leads to discovery of hundreds of elephant tusks that sat unclaimed for over year in warehouse.
As more of the rural poor seeking work move to cities, they leave their children at home where they are vulnerable to physical, sexual abuse.
Some 860 families from various indigenous minorities lived for generations near the rivers in northeast Cambodia until a Chinese-backed dam flooded the area.
This demographic shift means that some villages are primarily populated by children, the elderly, and men who are unemployable because they use drugs or struggle with mental illness.
Experts say women remain underrepresented in politics in Cambodia.
As senior Khmer Rouge leaders are convicted of genocide, survivors of the regime’s last stand seek to put the past behind them.
The CNRP was the country’s largest political party and the only party to win seats in parliament in the 2013 election.
The verdict this Friday focuses on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed at worksites, cooperatives, security centers and execution sites, including the infamous S-21 prison in Phnom Penh.
The CPP won around 3,000 of 3,500 valid votes in Champey, according to results from the CPP-dominated National Election Committee.
According to the National Bank of Cambodia, the country has more than 70 microfinance institutions and 170 rural credit operators.
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