News Updates

November 11, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   "Sometimes I get regular women, sometimes I hire lady-boys" -- PHNOM PENH, 11 November 2008 (PlusNews) - At the end of each day, Lux, a construction worker in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, goes home for supper with his wife and young children. At the weekend he leads a different life, cruising the city's most notorious male brothels, where he regularly has group sex with men while watching pornographic videos.
 
October 20, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   Residents flee as war fears stirred up -- After three Cambodian soldiers were killed in an intense gun battle with Thai troops at Veal Antri on 15 October, Cambodians have been fleeing their homes at the border, fearing more violence.
 
September 17, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   CAMBODIA: Human trafficking likely to increase -- Trafficking in Cambodia is set to rise with the sharp increase in food and fuel prices, according to humanitarian workers.
 
September 03, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   CAMBODIA: Gambling fuels poverty -- POI PET, 2 September 2008 (IRIN) - In a dimly lit room in a frontier town along the Thai-Cambodian border, a man slaps down a card on the table, having bet all his daily earnings as a motorbike taxi driver.
 
August 18, 2008
Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis
   CAMBODIA: Questions over legality of evictions in name of development -- PHNOM PENH, 18 August 2008 (IRIN) - Vanndy Sambath had lived next to Phnom Penh's lush Boeng Kak lake for years, peacefully growing vegetables and accommodating tourists to support his family.
 
July 31, 2008
The Economist
   Stability, sort of -- After a dirty election, the prime minister tightens his grip
 
July 30, 2008
Associated Press
   Cambodia: Post-election Fears For Cambodian Democracy -- PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: The landslide election victory of Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party essentially puts Cambodia under one party-rule and risks damaging the country's already fragile democracy, rights groups said Wednesday
 
July 29, 2008
BBC News, Phnom Penh
   EU criticises Cambodia election -- Monitors from the European Union say Cambodia's recent general election fell short of international standards.
 
July 28, 2008
World Politics Review
   Ruling Party Claims Victory in Camodian Election as Preah Vihear Talks Begin -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party has claimed victory in Sunday's election after soundly defeating opposition efforts to unseat him. Meanwhile, high-level diplomatic talks with Thailand regarding a flaring border dispute got under way.
 
July 28, 2008
IRIN-humanitarian news and analysis
   CAMBODIA-THAILAND: Communities hoard food as border dispute continues -- Communities along the Thai-Cambodian border are hoarding food and basic necessities as an ongoing border dispute between the two countries continues.
 
March 26, 2008
IRIN-humanitarian news and analysis
   CAMBODIA: Mapping food security to target the needy -- Rising rice prices are threatening Cambodia's poor despite the country's economic progress.
 
February 13, 2008
The New York Times
   Cambodia Tribunal: Up to 8 Defendants -- PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia's genocide tribunal expects to try up to eight suspects over the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule, while seeking to nearly double its staffing levels to 530, according to a tribunal planning document.
 
February 11, 2008
BBC News
   Cambodia urged to stop eviction -- Human rights organisation Amnesty International has called for an end to forced evictions in Cambodia.
 
November 21, 2007
The New York Times
   Khmer Rouge Hearing Ends -- PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 21 — More than 28 years after the killing stopped, the first Khmer Rouge defendant stepped into a public courtroom on Tuesday to answer for the deaths of 1.7 million people — a tiny, self-effacing man who once commanded an efficient and ruthless torture house.
 
November 20, 2007
BBC World News
   Khmer Rouge trial raises hope of justice -- It was a bland setting for such a significant moment.
 
November 19, 2007
BBC World News
   Top Khmer Rouge leader charged -- The Khmer Rouge's former head of state, Khieu Samphan, has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity at a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia.