Anthony Jensen
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Rights Groups Warn of Tough Telecoms Law
Local rights groups have raised major concerns about Cambodia’s sweeping new Telecommunications Law, which gives the government virtually unchecked spying powers and criminalizes any electronic communication deemed to cause “national insecurity.” → Read More
Sex Scandal Spreads With Threat to Lawmaker
A senior CNRP lawmaker said Tuesday that he was being blackmailed over an alleged sex scandal, a week after the apparent leak of a series of recorded conversations purported to be between deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and his mistresses. → Read More
Group Warns of Protests During Hun Manet Visit
A Cambodian-American activist group, which last month staged a protest against Prime Minister Hun Sen during his first official state visit to the U.S., has warned of the possibility of further demonstrations if the premier’s eldest son visits the U.S. next month as planned. → Read More
US’ Asean Ambassador Slammed for Rights Remarks
Cambodia’s ambassador to Asean on Friday rebuked his U.S. counterpart for comments she made on the country’s human rights situation, asking her to refrain from “criticizing Cambodia inappropriately.” → Read More
US Envoy Says Rights Discussed at Summit
The top U.S. envoy to Asean said on Wednesday that despite trade and security issues being at the center of last week’s U.S.-Asean Summit, U.S. President Barack Obama also used the setting to address the region’s human rights problems. → Read More
Amnesty International Latest Rights Group to Criticize Government
Cambodians continue to suffer from a raft of human rights abuses including “arbitrary restrictions” on freedoms of assembly and expression, according to Amnesty International’s latest global report released this morning. → Read More
German Accused of Child Sex Abuse Bemoans Treatment
The trial of a German expatriate accused of sexually abusing five young boys at his Phnom Penh home concluded at the municipal court on Thursday with the defendant claiming that he had been “treated like a dog” over the course of his prosecution. → Read More
CPP Touts Hun Sen’s Attendance at US Summit
While Prime Minister Hun Sen advertised his visit to the U.S. as a sign of recognition by a world power, the CNRP and activists painted the invitation as a strategic necessity for U.S. President Barack Obama. → Read More
Threats Fail to Thwart Anti-Hun Sen Protest
With Cambodian-American protesters sequestered on a street away from the Sunnylands resort in southern California, Prime Minister Hun Sen greeted U.S. President Barack Obama and posed for a handshake free from harassment on Monday before the start of a two-day U.S.-Asean summit. → Read More
Hun Sen Makes Promise of ‘One Province, One University’
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that it was his government’s goal to build at least one public university in each of the country’s 24 provinces, although the premier did not specify a timeframe for the plan. → Read More
Orphanage Head Convicted of Child Sex Abuse
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday sentenced Hang Vibol, the former director of anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), to three years in prison for abusing 11 victims under his care at the Phnom Penh orphanage he founded in 1999. → Read More
Vacated Bodyguard HQ Signals End of an Era
In a sign of the shifting face of the ruling party, the former headquarters of late CPP President Chea Sim’s personal bodyguard unit, which was disbanded following his death in June, is now the office of a private security firm. → Read More
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Witness Denies Plan to ‘Smash’ Vietnamese
A witness at the Khmer Rouge tribunal told the Trial Chamber on Wednesday that there was no plan to “smash” ethnic Vietnamese living within the borders of Democratic Kampuchea—contradicting testimony he provided the day before. → Read More
Hun Sen Surpasses Rainsy in Facebook ‘Likes’
Prime Minister Hun Sen is nearing the pinnacle of Cambodian social media popularity, having now passed opposition leader Sam Rainsy in their heated race for “likes” on Facebook. → Read More
Prominent Scholar Threatens to Sue Student
One of the country’s most prominent academics has found himself enmeshed in yet another controversy involving social media—this time threatening a lawsuit against a former student at his Phnom Penh university over a Facebook post complaining about fees at the school. → Read More
Microfinance Company Set for Thai Buyout
Cambodia’s fourth-largest microfinance institution, Hattha Kaksekar Limited, is set to be purchased by one of Thailand’s largest banks, its president and CEO confirmed on Thursday. → Read More
Cambodia Perceived as Most Corrupt In Region
Cambodia is now perceived to be the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia, according to Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, which was released on Wednesday and promptly dismissed by the country’s anti-graft chief. → Read More
Cambodia on ‘Cusp’ of Authoritarianism: Report
After a breakdown in political discourse last year led to a sometimes-violent offensive against opposition leaders and activists, Cambodia slipped 10 spots in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Democracy Index—to the “cusp” of authoritarianism. → Read More
Hun Sen Laments Impact of Foreign Competition in Rice Sector
Cambodia’s rice industry faces a plethora of challenges—both internal and external—that have led to low prices and prevented exporters from achieving a lofty tonnage target set by the government in 2010, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday. → Read More
Ministry Seeks to Arrest Photoshopper Abroad
The Interior Ministry has asked Interpol to help arrest a “Cambodian living abroad” it believes is responsible for doctoring and circulating an image of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife, according to a ministry spokesman. → Read More