The Future Forum group will research policy choices and “major issues” to help Cambodia’s leaders make important decisions, Ou Virak told “Hello VOA” Monday.
The panel was organized by the Voice of America and USAID, in an effort to advance health policy worldwide.
Phnom Penh is one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia.
Becker was one of the few journalists allowed into Cambodia following the takeover of the Khmer Rouge.
Cambodian Muslims say even though they are far from the region and its strife, they remain concerned for the spread of violence.
Cambodia’s political balance has turned away from the international community, especially as the impoverished nation receives increasing assistance from China, an author says.
A coalition of local rights and democracy groups says it is concerned over potential election reforms that will ban them from talking to media outlets during election periods.
The move sparked worry amid rights workers, who say military and police should be separated from top-level politics.
The expansion was in part to allow more young leaders into party decision-making, and it was in part a response to the party’s slide in popularity at the 2013 elections.
The monks at the pagoda have made public the vault of urns, in hopes of helping people claim them.
The popularity of social media and the ubiquity of mobile phones and other platforms have exploded in Cambodia in recent years.
Keo Chan Dara said Khmer Rouge cadre brought three women, naked, before a dozen other prisons, made them sit on the ground, wounded their faces—nose, ears, cheeks, lips—with pliers, then poured acid into the wounds.
Thirty-two Montagnards fled Vietnam in January, and 27 remain in hiding, a local coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said.
The party’s honorary president, Heng Samrin, told party members CPP reforms are “unavoidable” if the party is to stay in power.
The report summarizes six months of research, including interviews with 54 children.
Chean Srey Mom’s testimony is part of the second and final phase of an atrocity crimes trial against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.
Speaking at the end of a trip to Cambodia, US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel said investors need confidence that contracts will be enforced and that the rule of law will protect them.
Sao Sokha commands 10,000 military police, and his forces have been behind some of the most brutal crackdowns on demonstrators and dissidents in recent years.
According to the report the opposition has held 610 meetings with grassroots supporters, 54 more than the CPP.
Among them was the outspoken activist and community organizer Tep Vanny, who was sentenced to a year in prison for her role in the demonstration.
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