The Cambodia Daily

Cambodia's high profile NGO community is in mourning following the death of prominent Australian social worker Laura Knight, who was killed in a car accident which also claimed the lives of three others and left another six people injured.

South Korean rights group the National Council of Churches (NCC) on Friday awarded its Asian Human Rights Peace Prize to the jailed president of Cambodia’s now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Kem Sokha, citing his devotion to democracy and human rights in the country.

A Cambodian court sentenced a Belgian man to life in prison on Friday on charges of smuggling cocaine into the country.

A video blog called ‘A Dose of Cath’ unabashedly wrestles with the risqué, drawing both applause and abuse in the patriarchal country.

Cambodia’s energized youth activists and large demographic of young voters could become key actors in halting the country’s democratic backsliding, political analysts said, though they warned that challenging the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) could also put youths at serious risk.

Mory Sar, co-founder, and vice-president of the Cambodian Youth Network was one of the panelists discussing on Cambodia’s human rights at the Stimson Center, Washington, DC, May 29. Sar suggested three ways that Cambodian youths could make a difference in their country. VOA Khmer’s Chetra Chap reports.

Election monitor Koul Panha said on his Facebook page that he considers Cambodia a “weak state”. He compared the Kingdom to dictatorships in Africa and claimed it practised human rights violations and nepotism.

Drenched in sweat and more than an hour into a speech urging 16,000 garment factory workers to vote for the ruling party, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia revived the restless crowd by announcing that everyone would receive a cash gift.

The World Bank will provide $110 million in financing for Cambdoia to improve is main national highway, its board said in a statement on Friday.

A group of former US Embassy security guards who were fired in March for sharing child pornography appeared at the Labor Ministry on Friday to seek assistance from the government in pressing their claims of unlawful dismissal against the embassy.

Police investigating a deadly traffic incident that caused the death of the wife of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the head of the opposition Funcinpec party, leaving the political veteran seriously injured, have found no evidence to back up claims of foul play.

Mory Sar, co-founder, and vice-president of the Cambodian Youth Network was one of the panelists discussing on Cambodia’s human rights at the Stimson Center, Washington, DC, May 29. Sar suggested three ways that Cambodian youths could make a difference in their country. VOA Khmer’s Chetra Chap reports.

20 political parties will be participating in Cambodia’s rapidly approaching national election, far more than the eight that contested in the last election in 2013.

The head of Cambodia’s official election body has said the organization is using a telecommunications company to encourage Cambodians to vote in the upcoming general elections.

Cambodia’s royalist Funcinpec party on Thursday rejected a police report which called a car collision that left the party’s president Prince Norodom Ranariddh critically injured and killed his wife Princess Ouk Phalla an accident, and has demanded a probe into the incident.

Girls now complete lower secondary school nearly 20 percent more often than boys, and in some provinces, 1.5 girls complete school for every boy.