LICADHO will be monitoring the human rights situation during Cambodia's 2022 Commune Elections, starting as polls open on Sunday at 7am Cambodia time. Use the link below to follow live updates: stream.licadho-cambodia.org/commune_electi…

Polling stations around Cambodia have just opened. Voters will be able to vote from 7am, with polls closing at 3pm. Follow LICADHO's live human rights updates throughout the day: stream.licadho-cambodia.org/commune_electi…

Reports indicate that a Candlelight district party official in Kandal, Ean Pov, was arrested at Wat Chambok School, a polling ground in Peuk commune, Ang Snuol district, at around 12:00pm. He is being detained at the district police station. Reason(s) for the arrest are unclear.

My infinitely more skilled colleagues at Mongabay have put together this brief explainer video that nicely summarises our most recent reports on #Cambodia's rapidly vanishing Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary.

Investigating journalism at its best. This instantly goes into the mandatory homework material to consume when looking into Cambodia. This amounts to some of the best on-screen dissection of how fundamentally corrupt and rotten things are. aljazeera.com/program/101-ea…

Forced to Scam: Cambodia’s Cyber Slaves | 101 East Documentary - The Global Herald theglobalherald.com/news/forced-to…

Criminal syndicates are trafficking thousands of young men and women from across Asia into heavily guarded compounds in Cambodia, forcing them to run global cyber scams. Some survivors are now speaking out. Watch ‘Cambodia’s Cyber Slaves’ on 101 East: aje.io/cyberslaves

Two LRSU is on strike strikers were injured by security forces after being pushed to the ground this afternoon. The strikers were attempting to walk to NagaWorld casino as they continue to demand respect for their labour rights. Flash info: licadho-cambodia.org/flashnews.php?…

Great work from Cezary Podkul, Cindy Liu and with additional reporting from Dara Mech and Danielle K-O and Salina Li. Harrowing and comprehensive account of the cyber slavery ravaging through Cambodia right now. propublica.org/article/human-…

Every 16 minutes, a Cambodian family has to sell their land to repay a microloan. That's according to a German government-funded study, which confirmed an "alarmingly high" and "unacceptable" number of distressed land sales in the sector. Press release: licadho-cambodia.org/pressrelease.p…

Workers say their scam companies moved before and during police raids of compounds, allowing businesses to escape the law — and some workers to escape detention. vodenglish.news/the-big-transf…

Thread: Search for Beijing/Shanghai/other cities in Chinese on Twitter and you'll mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results. Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a *significant* uptick in these spam tweets.

Even for Cambodia, this hellish extrajudicial detention facility is a complete anachronism that should have been shut down forever ago. licadho-cambodia.org/pressrelease.p…

A land conflict in Oddar Meanchey in which 19 people have been arrested and homes have been burned must be resolved peacefully and state violence stopped licadho-cambodia.org/articles/20221… #Cambodia

The Embassy of France learned with great concern the closure of VOD, an independent and professional media outlet. It recalls its strong attachment to the freedom of press.

1. The first in my series on illegal logging in #Cambodia for Mongabay and Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) ties a senior Prisons Dept. official to a series of timber grabs dating back to 2013, but his latest concession in Stung Treng jeopardizes a newly protected forest news.mongabay.com/2023/03/logged…

The government ordered internet service providers to block the websites and social media pages of several independent media outlets and a public database in a July 12 document obtained by CamboJA on Monday. cambojanews.com/government-ord…

The OPCC CamboJA News (ខេមបូចា ព័ត៌មាន) CCIM Cambodia & IFJ Asia-Pacific express serious concern over the Cambodian govt's decision to restrict access to critical sources of info ahead of the July 23 national election as part of a concerted effort to suppress information. opc-cambodia.org/blog/2023/07/1…

Part 3 of the Jack Adamović Davies Radio Free Asia series is here. ..and this is why it matters. This is not merely another corrupt bus empire. Prince Holding Group compounds lie at the epicenter of one of the world's largest / most violent industries of organized crime. rfa.org/english/news/c…

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