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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 12, 2020
U.S. decries Cambodia treason trial's 'fabricated conspiracy theories'
The United States ambassador to Cambodia said on Thursday that he is troubled by "fabricated conspiracy theories" at the treason trial of opposition party leader Kem Sokha, who is accused of plotting to overthrow longtime leader Hun Sen.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food of my Former Homeland
Mar 7, 2020
Angkor Wat: A Cambodian take on 'Japanese professionalism'
A gigantic elephant statue guards the entrance to Angkor Wat, a Cambodian restaurant hidden near Tokyo's Yoyogi Station.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 21, 2020
Virus deals new blow to Cambodian city bound to China
An influx of Chinese that some Cambodians once resented for bringing noise, dust and chaos to the port of Sihanoukville is the cause of more pain now that it has gone into reverse.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 15, 2020
Passengers on shunned cruise ship Westerdam call two-week experience 'lovely'
After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 14, 2020
Cruise passengers shunned over coronavirus to head home after Cambodia reprieve
Passengers on a cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over coronavirus fears cheered and clapped as the vessel finally arrived at a port in Cambodia on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 21, 2020
Cambodia is criminalizing democracy
The international community must not allow Prime Minister Hun Sen to use fabricated treason charges to suppress the leading opposition party.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 10, 2019
Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest
More than two years after he was arrested and charged with treason, Cambodia on Sunday freed opposition leader Kem Sokha from house arrest, but the charges remain and he is banned from politics and from leaving the country.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2019
China's Cambodian invasion
Beijing's military expansionism depends on compliant local regimes and inaction on the part of the international community.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2019
Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist, dies at age 93
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge chief ideologist and "Brother No. 2" Nuon Chea died Sunday at the age of 93, a court spokesman said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 29, 2019
Cambodia says it will increase arms purchases from China
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that an additional $40 million would be spent on weapons from China to modernize the Southeast Asian country's military.
EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2019
China's ties with Cambodia pay off
Japan, along with other regional governments, must be alert to and concerned by the prospect of Chinese power projection in Southeast Asia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2019
China strikes secret deal to allow armed forces at Cambodian naval base: report
China will be able to place armed forces at a Cambodian naval base under a secret agreement the two nations have reached, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 20, 2019
China-backed Dara Sakor project in Cambodia rings alarm bells in Washington
Along pristine Cambodian beaches, past parades of elephants in its largest national park, sits an area half the size of Singapore that is raising alarm bells among military strategists in the U.S. and beyond.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2019
The rising cost of Hun Sen's strongman rule in Cambodia
Despite boasting unrivaled tourist attractions, large stores of natural resources that could be profitably and responsibly exploited, and one of the world's youngest labor forces the country's economy is floundering.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 8, 2019
Reinvigorating Japan's twin-track diplomacy in Cambodia
A visit to Japan by 10 young politics-oriented Cambodians indicates that Tokyo is working outside the international media limelight to engage with both the opposition and the ruling party through its traditional twin-track diplomacy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 27, 2019
Japan shouldn't act like China in Cambodia
Tokyo is fighting a losing battle for Hun Sen's support and selling out its own legacy in the democratization of Cambodia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 22, 2019
Family ties thwart Cambodia's efforts to tackle bride trafficking to China
Although a rising number of Cambodian women are being sold as brides in China, complaints and convictions are on the decline, with many victims refusing to speak out because their families are colluding with trafficking rings, a regional police chief says.
EDITORIALS
Feb 16, 2019
EU plays tough with Cambodia
The European Union is right to stand on principles and values and it should not stand alone.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 5, 2019
Acid attack survivors say Cambodia is illegally denying them care
For Moung Sreymom, survival comes down to accessing doctors that will treat her wounds for free.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 30, 2019
In a slum built in Cambodian cemetery, the living far outnumber the dead
When floodwaters swept a chunk of riverbank into the Mekong just south of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Sun Ramaly managed to save her clothes and her kitchen utensils. Her one-room shack, however, crumbled into the river.

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