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Kwan’s “Sonmalai” Mixtape Launches in Cambodia

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Kwan’s “Sonmalai” Mixtape Launches in Cambodia

The new R&B mixtape by Kwan is the New Year’s gift for listeners. The songs reflect the reality of everyday life.

Cambodia’s music scene has been buzzing with excitement since the release of Kwan’s latest mixtape, “Sonmalai,” on January 24, 2024. Born So Sothsovankong, he is known for his diverse artistic talents spanning from wall painting to graffiti and canvas artwork, with solo exhibitions in Cambodia and overseas in Japan, Thailand and France. At 25, Kwan is running a label called Slaphouse with co-founder Jeremiah Overman and is continuing to make a significant mark in the music world with this captivating collection of 10 songs.

In full: https://www.prestigeonline.com/kh/lifestyle/kwans-sonmalai-mixtape-launches-in-cambodia/

Cambodian leader warns YouTubers after fake kidnapping

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Cambodian leader warns YouTubers after fake kidnapping

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has issued a warning about fake news after a Taiwanese YouTuber visited the country and staged his own kidnapping.

A court in the south handed both Chen Neng-chuan and his cameraman a two-year prison sentence last week. They were also fined nearly 1,000 dollars each.

In full: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240220_33/

In Phnom Penh, Slurping Noodles and Tasting Home Again

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In Phnom Penh, Slurping Noodles and Tasting Home Again

Upon reaching Phnom Penh, our first act was searching for dinner.

I will never forget my first meal that truly tasted like home, after fourteen years in exile: It was fitting that it should be prahok—our defining (and aromatic) national condiment.

We found someone preparing a version very much like my mother’s splendid cooked prahok: mixed with kroeung spice paste, minced pork, and young tamarind leaves, all wrapped in a banana leaf and grilled. Although I had never developed a taste for raw prahok as a child, that day the luscious, pungent fish was, for me, the flavor of Cambodia. I closed my eyes and drank in the familiar aromas. A sense of relief and well-being washed over me. Something essential from that lost world had survived, after all.

In full: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/slow-noodles-chantha-nguon

Cambodia urged to drop lawsuit against rights activist

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Cambodia urged to drop lawsuit against rights activist

Two international rights groups have called on the Cambodian government to dismiss what they say is a politically motivated defamation lawsuit against leading human rights defender Soeng Senkaruna.

Senkaruna faces the lawsuit at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and CIVICUS said in a statement on Feb. 19.

The complaint against the deputy head of the Human Rights and Land Rights Section and Senior Human Rights Investigator of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) was brought by Hun Sen, the former Cambodian prime minister and leader of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).

In full: https://www.ucanews.com/news/cambodia-urged-to-drop-lawsuit-against-rights-activist/104191

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

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In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

Vegetation lurches over a concrete wall that runs alongside a quiet road in the northern Cambodian province of Preah Vihear. Behind the wall, and the rusty gate that serves as the only entrance point, sits one of Cambodia’s three medium-sized cashew nut processing factories. At 2 p.m. on a Thursday in late November last year, the road is silent under the sun. Across the road, baking in the heat, sits a barren stretch of land where a forest once stood.

In 2017, when the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a program giving taxpayer-funded grants to help boost Cambodia’s agricultural productivity, it turned to outfits like this. Cambodia is a major producer of cashews, with some estimates suggesting as much as 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) reportedly under cultivation. But roughly 95% of its cashew exports are shipped raw to Vietnam, amounting to 711,513 metric tons in 2022, according to UN data, meaning that most of the profits from the nuts were generated elsewhere.

In full: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/in-cambodia-an-officials-cashew-factory-churns-out-timber-from-a-protected-forest/

Taiwan hikes Cambodia travel alert level following rise in H5N1 cases

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Taiwan hikes Cambodia travel alert level following rise in H5N1 cases

Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) said on Tuesday it had raised Cambodia’s travel warning level to “alert,” cautioning potential travelers about the H5N1 avian flu that has been spreading in the southeast Asian country.

Cambodia was rated “alert,” the second highest on the MOHW travel warning scale on Feb. 17 after the country reported four new cases of the influenza in the last month, spread between the nation’s Prey Veng, Siem Reap, and Kratié Provinces.

In full: https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202402200023

Former Cambodian PM Hun Sen to visit Thaksin tomorrow

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Former Cambodian PM Hun Sen to visit Thaksin tomorrow

Former Cambodian PM Hun Sen is scheduled to travel to Bangkok tomorrow to visit Thaksin Shinawatra, at the latter’s residence in Ban Chan Song La, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thaksin’s youngest daughter confirmed today.

Hun Sen is worried about Thaksin’s condition and asked for a personal meeting with Thaksin, Paetongtarn said, adding Hun Sen will have lunch with Thaksin before returning to Phnom Penh.

In full: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/former-cambodian-pm-hun-sen-to-visit-thaksin-tomorrow/

How to Eat Your Way Through Phnom Penh, According to a Chef Rotanak Ros

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How to Eat Your Way Through Phnom Penh, According to a Chef Rotanak Ros

Best known in Phnom Penh as Chef Nak, Rotanak Ros has spent over a decade traveling around Cambodia, recovering, preserving, and spotlighting traditional Khmer recipes.

The richness of the region’s cuisine, which she says comprises “at least a thousand dishes” from over a thousand years of history, collides in one place: her hometown of Phnom Penh (say it: “pa-nom penn”).

“This is not just the hub for art or culture,” says Ros. “This is the place where everyone comes for a better life—and when they come from different parts of Cambodia, they bring their food.”

In full: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/ask-a-local-phnom-penh-cambodia-rotanak-ros

William Beecher, Who Revealed Secret Cambodia Bombing, Dies at 90

New York Times
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William Beecher, Who Revealed Secret Cambodia Bombing, Dies at 90

William Beecher, who as a reporter for The New York Times revealed President Richard M. Nixon’s secret bombing campaign over Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and who later won a Pulitzer Prize at The Boston Globe, died on Feb. 9 at his home in Wilmington, N.C. He was 90.

His daughter, Lori Beecher, and son-in-law, Marc Burstein, confirmed the death.

President Nixon ordered the bombings, code-named Operation Menu, in March 1969 in response to stepped-up attacks by the North Vietnamese Army and South Vietnamese guerrillas based in Cambodia, a neutral country. The campaign was so secret that even William P. Rogers, the secretary of state, was unaware of it.

In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/business/media/william-beecher-dead.html

Cambodian court sentences Taiwanese YouTuber to jail for faking his kidnapping

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Cambodian court sentences Taiwanese YouTuber to jail for faking his kidnapping

A Taiwanese influencer who faked his abduction on social media has been sent to jail by Cambodian authorities for two years.

Chen Neng-chuan, 31, who creates videos about “paranormal activities” on social media, was arrested with his friend, Lu Tsu-hsien after the duo staged a forced abduction and escape on his Instagram live feed.

The influencer told his followers he was going to explore the “dark corner” in Cambodia, famous for notorious gangs kidnapping foreigners.

In full: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/chen-nengchuan-cambodia-taiwanese-youtuber-b2497838.html

Cambodia and Thailand to jointly tackle PM2.5 pollution on border

The Nation
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Cambodia and Thailand to jointly tackle PM2.5 pollution on border

The Burapha Army Command and Sa Kaeo provincial administration have joined hands with Cambodian authorities in tackling PM2.5 air pollution on the border between Sa Kaeo province in Thailand’s eastern region and Cambodia Banteay Meanchey province.

PM2.5 refers to dust particles that are 2.5 micrometres or smaller in diameter and can be easily inhaled. Long-term exposure to such fine particles has been linked to many chronic diseases, including acute lung and heart problems.

Burapha Commander Maj-General Theppitak Nimit said on Friday that a joint meeting was recently held in Sa Kaeo as a follow up on the meeting of the Thai-Cambodian Regional Border Committee that focused on solving the common environmental problems of the two countries.

In full: https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2024/02/17/cambodia-and-thailand-to-jointly-tackle-pm25-pollution-on-border

Hun Many, Cambodian PM’s younger brother, is all set to become country’s new DPM

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Hun Many, Cambodian PM’s younger brother, is all set to become country’s new DPM

Cambodia’s National Assembly will hold an extraordinary session on Feb 21 to approve a new deputy prime minister and two senior ministers, according to a National Assembly’s statement to the media.

Civil Service Minister Hun Many, 41, will be the candidate for a deputy prime ministerial post, as Sry Thamarong and Pen Vibol, currently ministers attached to the Prime Minister, will be promoted to senior ministers in charge of special mission.

Hun Many, who became the minister of Civil Service in August 2023, is a younger brother of incumbent Prime Minister Hun Manet and the youngest son of former Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen.

In full: https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2024/02/17/hun-many-cambodian-pm039s-younger-brother-is-all-set-to-become-country039s-new-dpm

Review: Cambodian memoir a deft blend of war’s brutality and food

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Review: Cambodian memoir a deft blend of war’s brutality and food

Whenever people tell me stories about themselves, I voice the inevitable (for me) question: So, what’d you eat? To me, the trivial-seeming question is everything. What smells and textures did you experience there? In the quiet moments amid all the highs and lows of life, how did you nourish yourself?

If you’re nosy in the same way, Cambodian social entrepreneur Chantha Nguon’s “Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes” rewards those questions handsomely.

In full: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-cambodian-memoir-slow-noodles-chantha-18638405

Cambodia jails Taiwanese YouTuber for fake kidnap

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Cambodia jails Taiwanese YouTuber for fake kidnap

A Taiwanese YouTuber has been jailed in Cambodia for attempting to stage his own abduction with a friend.

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Chen Neng-chuan was arrested with his friend, Lu Tsu-hsien, after posting a video of them apparently being detained and beaten up by security guards in the port city of Sihanoukville.

The area has become notorious for gangs kidnapping people and then forcing them to carry out online scams.

In full: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68315907

China, Russia and Cambodia top list of regimes targeting critics in exile

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China, Russia and Cambodia top list of regimes targeting critics in exile

Scores of attacks, including assassinations, abductions and assaults, were perpetrated by 25 governments last year against people outside their borders, new analysis reveals.

Data from the Washington DC-based pro-democracy organisation Freedom House reveals that the governments of Russia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Turkmenistan and China were the biggest five perpetrators of transnational repression in 2023.

In full: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/16/china-russia-and-cambodia-top-list-of-regimes-targeting-critics-in-exile

US Sanctions and Rallying Around the Flag in North Korea and Cambodia

The Diplomat
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US Sanctions and Rallying Around the Flag in North Korea and Cambodia

Steve Hanke was an economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and has worked with governments around the world in the decades since.

He is now a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S., and an influential proponent of the idea that the U.S. should not – in any circumstances – impose sanctions on foreign regimes.

In July 2020, the then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Hanke to discuss the imposing of sanctions on Hong Kong as its autonomy was being undermined by China. Pompeo told him that a final decision would be made by President Donald Trump the following day and that Hanke’s opinion had been requested. Pompeo argued for sanctions, while Hanke was adamantly against them. The final decision was not to go ahead with the sanctions.

In full: https://thediplomat.com/2024/02/us-sanctions-and-rallying-around-the-flag-in-north-korea-and-cambodia/

Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

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Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said Friday.

Tigers were declared “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016 by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The last tiger spotted in the country was seen in 2007 by a camera trap -– a hidden camera that is triggered by the movement of animals -– in the forests of eastern Mondulkiri province.

In full: https://apnews.com/article/conservation-tigers-wildlife-cambodia-52a5a1f9d06a16383aad4143f29aee97

Cambodia ‘upcycler’ turns tonnes of plastic bottles into brooms

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Cambodia ‘upcycler’ turns tonnes of plastic bottles into brooms

In a small warehouse in Cambodia’s capital, a group of workers sit and spin waste plastic bottles into strips, turning them into bristles for brooms, of which they churn out 500 each day.

For the past 11 months they have transformed around 40 tonnes of discarded plastic bottles, about 5,000 bottles per day, by “upcycling” them into brooms they say are more robust than regular brushes.

In full: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/cambodia-upcycler-turns-tonnes-plastic-bottles-into-brooms-2024-02-16/

Taiwanese streamer accused of spreading misinformation detained in Cambodia

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Taiwanese streamer accused of spreading misinformation detained in Cambodia

A Taiwanese national was detained by Cambodian police Wednesday on suspicion of faking a kidnap and assault that purportedly took place during a livestream from a “scam park” in Sihanoukville, according to Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).

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Chen Neng-chuan, who goes by the handle “Goodnight Chicken”, live-streamed a video on Monday night, in which he claimed he had broken into the “scam park.”

He then appears to be pursued and beaten up by unseen assailants before he drops his phone and the livestream abruptly ends.

In full: https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202402150012

Why Cambodia Needs to Incorporate More Women Into Its Foreign Policy Process

The Diplomat
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Why Cambodia Needs to Incorporate More Women Into Its Foreign Policy Process

The world has come a long way since women first fought for equal rights in the early 19th century. For Cambodia, the movement for women’s equality began in the 1940s and 1950s, emerging from the country’s nationalist movement. Then came the establishment of the first national women’s organization, the Women’s Friendship Association, in 1958, which aimed at promoting nationalist consciousness.

Now Cambodian women participate in every aspect of society and are given more chances than ever before. However, when it comes to who gets to represent Cambodia on the international stage, within foreign policy institutions, men far outnumber women, particularly in decision-making roles.

In full: https://thediplomat.com/2024/02/why-cambodia-needs-to-incorporate-more-women-into-its-foreign-policy-process/

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