Cambodia has a young population: about 60 percent are under the age of 30. Each year, an estimated 250,000 people are in need of a job.
Scholars are looking at the prospects of freedom of religion and gender equality in Indonesia as a lesson for other countries in the region.
Final draft of the 26th ASEAN Chairman's Statement, obtained by VOA Khmer, says the group will call for intensified consultations on a code of conduct for the South China Sea.
Controversial plan strongly criticized by human rights groups.
The vigil was held at Wat Buddhikarama, a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The three-day event ran last week, from Tuesday to Thursday, and included a concert, traditional Cambodian games, art shows, product fairs and dances.
In an exclusive interview with VOA Khmer, Tea Lim Koun discusses his filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s and what it meant to leave it behind.
The country on Friday will see the 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Rouge insurgents, marking the rise of the brutal regime and its harsh agrarian policies.
The Choeung Ek “killing fields” were linked to the torture center Tuol Sleng, which the Khmer Rouge established inside the city following its fall, on April 17, 1975.
Part Six: Reflections on the Future - In 2007, the ambassador told VOA Khmer, leaders should learn from the “uncontrolled solution” to Cambodia’s crisis.
Part Five: The Death of Throes of Diplomacy - Dean left Cambodia for Bangkok feeling “terrible sadness,” convinced that Americans “didn’t live up to our responsibilities and our promises.” No negotiations ever took place.
Part Four: Mekong Convoy - The communists overran garrisons along the Mekong River, while pressuring bedraggled Republican troops around Phnom Penh, keeping potential reserve forces caught up in the capital.
Part Three: ‘Internationalization’ - This plan, Ambassador Dean hoped, would bring an end to the conflict and prevent a one-sided, unchecked takeover by the Khmer communists.
Part Two: Assessment on Arrival - The Khmer communists by 1974 were closing in, encircling Phnom Penh, the last stronghold of the faltering Khmer Republic.
Part One: Failure of Control - By February 1975, the situation in Phnom Penh was dire and the communist insurgents controlled nearly all the Cambodian countryside.
In Cambodian tradition, the new year is brought by a spirit called a tevada - this year’s tevada is named Reaka Jak Sak Devy.
More than 4,000 families across four provinces and in Phnom Penh are now dealing with the loss of land, housing or businesses, since the government began to fix its railways, in 2006.
The release comes after royal pardons were issued for 10 women housing rights activists and one monk over the weekend.
In the US, many Cambodians say the Khmer New Year is a way to keep their traditions alive.
Hang Puthea, the ninth member of the new National Election Committee, said in an interview with VOA Khmer he will work hard for positive change.
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