Chuyên mục: Cambodia (Kampuchia)

‘Beautifying Phnom Penh’: Muslim Cham face eviction in Cambodia

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TĐH: These Muslim Chams in Cambodia are descendants of the Vietnamese Chams from the Champa Kingdom that VN annexed from the 14th century and completed the annexation in the 17th century. Should the Vietnamese government come to Cambodia and help them?

Future of minority group living along Mekong River unclear as government seeks to ‘beautify’ city before world summit.

by 10 hours ago December 13, 2019
The Cham is an ethnic minority living in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam's southern region [Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom via Al Jazeera]
The Cham is an ethnic minority living in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam’s southern region [Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom via Al Jazeera]

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – On a good day, fish vendor Sen Ror can make about $7.50 but that is on a good day.

Usually, she only makes about a third of that, taking home roughly $2.50, which is all she has to buy food for her four children and elderly father, for whom she is the sole support after divorcing her husband a few years ago because of his drug addiction.

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RFA fake EBA news claim ends an extraordinary seven days in Cambodia politics

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RFA fake EBA news claim ends an extraordinary seven days in Cambodia politics

The Cambodian government has labelled claims by Radio Free Asia (RFA) that it has a leaked copy of a just-completed European Commission (EC) assessment on the country’s future to qualify for lucrative tariff exemptions under the Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme as fake news.

The statement, issued late on Friday (Nov 15) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC), accuses the US government-funded broadcaster of being a ‘propaganda station at the service of a political faction’, and ‘not a credible source of information’. Tiếp tục đọc “RFA fake EBA news claim ends an extraordinary seven days in Cambodia politics” →

Các cửa khẩu giữa Việt Nam Campuchia

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Cungphuot.info – Đường biên giới trên đất liền giữa Việt Nam và Căm-pu-chia khởi đầu từ ngã ba biên giới Việt Nam – Lào – Căm-pu-chia (thuộc tỉnh Kon Tum) kéo dài đến sát mép biển Hà Tiên, tỉnh Kiên Giang, đi qua 10 tỉnh biên giới miền Tây Nam của Việt Nam (Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Đăk Lăk, Đăk Nông, Bình Phước, Tây Ninh, Long An, Đồng Tháp, An Giang và Kiên Giang), tiếp giáp với 9 tỉnh biên giới của Căm-pu-chia (Ratarakiri, Mônđunkiri, CôngpôngChàm, Carachê, Sveyriêng, Prâyveng, Kầnđan, Tàkeo và Kămpốt) với chiều dài khoảng 1.137km. Tổng hợp toàn bộ các cửa khẩu giữa Việt Nam Campuchia cho các bạn quan tâm.

Các cửa khẩu giữa Việt Nam và Campuchia kéo dài từ Kon Tum đến tận An Giang (Ảnh – Wikipedia) Tiếp tục đọc “Các cửa khẩu giữa Việt Nam Campuchia” →

Những con thuyền không bến

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VnExpress – Thứ hai, 7/1/2019

Một buổi chiều tháng Tám, ông Ba Tài rời thuyền vô khu chợ nhỏ ở Reng Toel, mua ít thuốc rê, gạo, muối,  bó nhang. Ông đi thẳng vào khu nghĩa địa ven sông.

Nơi đây có hàng trăm nấm mồ cũ của những người đã sống trọn đời ở Biển Hồ Tonlé Sap, Campuchia. Trong đó có ông, bà, cha mẹ ông, những người mà trong trí nhớ mơ hồ của ông, nguyên quán ở Đồng Tháp. Tiếp tục đọc “Những con thuyền không bến” →

Hơn 3.000 dân Ba Chúc bị Pol Pot thảm sát trong ký ức người sống sót

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Hơn 3.000 dân Ba Chúc bị Pol Pot thảm sát trong ký ức người sống sót

Trong 12 ngày tràn vào xã Ba Chúc (An Giang) hơn 40 năm trước, quân Khmer Đỏ tàn sát hàng nghìn dân thường vô tội, chỉ hơn 20 người sống sót.

Ông Út Oanh kể lại hành trình 8 ngày đêm trốn chạy khỏi Pol Pot. Ảnh: Phước Tuấn.

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Campuchia cấm bán cát cho Singapore

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SGGPO 

Bộ Mỏ và Năng lượng Campuchia ngày 12-7 thông báo chính thức chấm dứt bán cát cho Singapore, nơi nhập khẩu phần lớn cát của Campuchia trong nhiều năm qua.

Theo Reuters, các tổ chức môi trường đã kêu gọi Chính phủ Campuchia chấm dứt xuất khẩu cát, với cáo buộc rằng trong những tháng gần đây cát vẫn được xuất khẩu trái phép bất chấp lệnh cấm tạm thời vào tháng 11-2016.

Hoạt động nạo vét cát rầm rộ trong tháng 7-2017 ở tỉnh Koh Kong, Campuchia. Ảnh: Mother Nature 

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Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling

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By Steve George and Tim Hume, CNN

Updated 5:18 AM ET, Fri November 16, 2018

(CNN) Almost four decades on from the collapse of Pol Pot’s tyrannical communist regime, an international tribunal has ruled that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, a landmark verdict that is hoped will bring closure to millions of Cambodians.

More than 1.7 million people, or approximately a fifth of Cambodia’s population, are believed to have died from forced labor, starvation and execution under the Khmer Rouge which ruled the country between 1975 and 1979.

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Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital: a symbol of friendship between Việt Nam and Cambodia

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Update: October, 08/2018 – 09:00

A patient is transferred to Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital by helicopter. — VNA/VNS Photo

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Srey Phirum Khun, 45, used to spend 8 hours travelling from Cambodia’s Kampong Speu Province to HCM City in Việt Nam for health checkups and treatment. Today, she no longer faces the grueling journey thanks to the inauguration of the Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital in January 2014.

“I no longer have to travel abroad for treatment. It helps save my money and time,” she said with a smile.

Khun was just one of many who have benefited from the joint cooperation between Việt Nam and Cambodia in the medical sector. Tiếp tục đọc “Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital: a symbol of friendship between Việt Nam and Cambodia” →

Cambodia blocks 17 media websites before vote

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Independent media sites taken offline for 48 hours as Cambodians prepare to vote on Sunday in a controversial election.

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The Phnom Penh Post was among those taken offline for 48 hours by the government [Erin Handley/Al Jazeera]
The Phnom Penh Post was among those taken offline for 48 hours by the government [Erin Handley/Al Jazeera

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – The government blocked access to independent media websites just hours before polling in the country’s controversial national election begins.

Phos Sovann, director general of information and broadcasting at the Information Ministry, confirmed a total of 17 websites – including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia (RFA), Voice of Democracy, and the Phnom Penh Post – had been targeted.

“We requested to our committee members, along with the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Telecommunications, to close those websites down,” he said.

The National Election Committee requested political parties and media outlets to “remain silent” for a 24-hour period in advance of election day on Sunday.

The government edict comes a week after a sudden proliferation of WhatsApp groups, in which potentially hundreds of Cambodians found themselves added to chats through the Facebook-owned messenger service.

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Sovann requested internet service providers to block the sites for 48 hours, while other news sites friendly to strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen‘s regime remained accessible online.

“We observed that the contents of those new media are provocative. Those contents are very political in their tendencies, and they are restricting to the election,” he said.

“I don’t think it’s unfair … It’s just for 48 hours before the election.”

Clamping down

The move comes during a political and media crackdown in Cambodia.

Opposition leader Kem Sokha was arrested on questionable allegations of treason in September last year and his party was dissolved by the Supreme Court – led by a member of the ruling party – leaving some three million voters disenfranchised and the election without a viable opposition.
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Cambodia ‘shocked’ by ‘disrespectful’ U.S. aid cut, says democracy intact

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Reuters Staff

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia said on Wednesday it was saddened and shocked by a “disrespectful” U.S. decision to rein back aid programmes because of perceived democratic setbacks and defended its record on democracy.


Cambodia’s national flags are seen as labourers work at a construction site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

The White House said on Tuesday it was suspending or curtailing several Treasury, USAID and military assistance programmes that support Cambodia’s military, taxation department and local authorities – all of which, it said, shared blame for recent instability.

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U.S. turns to music in bid to woo Cambodians

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Prak Chan Thul

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – With U.S.-Cambodian relations at a low and Chinese influence growing, Washington is trying a new way to win hearts and minds: sponsoring a well-known Cambodian musician to sing positive songs about America.


Singer Yorn Young poses for a picture before a news conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

“When there is tension, countries seek ways to ease it so arts and culture can help,” said 37-year-old Yorn Young, who launched his “Lovin’ USA” album in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. He was not worried if people thought it was propaganda, he added.

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Field Notes — Tonle Sap Lake

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Field Notes — Tonle Sap Lake

Stimson Southeast Asia program director Brian Eyler recently visited Plov Tuok, a community of 800 floating homes atop of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake — the largest lake in Southeast Asia and the world’s largest inland fishery. The visit was facilitated by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and Brian witnessed first-hand the progress of fish conversation zones that were established by local villagers and IUCN in 2014.

Click to read his Field Notes.

The ‘Chinazation’ of Cambodia

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March 16, 2017 10:00 am JST

China’s deepening economic presence is bringing progress — but at what cost?

KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei deputy editor

A new Chinese-built bridge, on the right, spans the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, running parallel to the bridge Japan helped construct in the 1960s. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)

HONG KONG/PHNOM PENH Just a few blocks from the Royal Palace, in the traditional heart of downtown Phnom Penh, sits one of Cambodia’s most renowned Chinese schools. Over the past century, the Tuan Hoa School has witnessed the many ups and downs of the capital. Today, it has front-row seats to an unprecedented boom.

Run by a local ethnic Chinese organization, the school is one of the largest Mandarin-speaking elementary and junior high schools outside China and Taiwan. It currently has more than 11,000 students, including those at its branch campus. Tiếp tục đọc “The ‘Chinazation’ of Cambodia” →