Chon Shi-yong, the chief editorial writer of The Korea Herald, has been elected as the new chairman of the Asia News Network , an alliance of 24 leading media organizations in 21 countries across Asia. Chon, a member of the ANN Board of Editors since 2015, was elected by the Board in its recent annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

The 2018 ASEAN Youth Debate will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in August to raise awareness among youths in the region on human rights issues. The three-day programme from Aug 25, organised by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights , will also provide opportunities for youths to voice their views and interact with human rights experts.

The community at Vat Khemarangsaram Cambodian Buddhist Temple at Bonnyrigg gathered to remember the life, work and courage of Dr Kem Ley , a Cambodian activist who was killed in 2016 in Cambodia. The local ceremony, which was held here on July 7, was one of five memorial ceremonies conducted in cities across Australia on the second anniversary of Dr Ley's death.

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's crackdown on dissent is in full swing ahead of national elections later this month. But who are the generals around Hun Sen who act like a praetorian guard protecting him and the ruling party, helping to crush or eliminate political opponents, and then obstructing efforts at accountability? In June, Human Rights Watch released a report, Cambodia's Dirty Dozen , profiling 12 senior generals in the military, police and gendarmerie who are responsible for serious and systematic human rights violations.

A bench of three judges has granted Australian film maker James Ricketson a one month delay in his espionage trial so he can prepare his defence, after prosecutors failed to produce 1600 pages of evidence. "I haven't been presented with any evidence at all," Ricketson, dressed in orange prison overalls and looking tired, told the Phnom Penh court on Monday.

Cambodia on Sunday celebrated the 10th anniversary of the inclusion of the Preah Vihear Temple and the first anniversary of the inclusion of Sambor Prei Kuk archeological site on the UNESCO's prestigious World Heritage List. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany presided over the celebratory event at the National Olympic Stadium here, which was attended by approximately 10,000 revelers.

We are off this Monday on a three-week fast-moving journey and speaking engagements in Nepal in the Himalayas in South Asia, then to Tehran, Iran in the Middle East, and on to Phnom Penh, Cambodia in Southeast Asia with brief connecting flight stop-overs in Bangkok and Muscat, Oman. We sincerely thank God that at 81, the Lord has given us fair health and some residual energy to attend meetings, deliver speeches at home and overseas, pursue strategic goals, and comply with foreign obligations.

Two villagers had died and 48 others had been hospitalized in northeast Cambodia's Kratie province after drinking rice wine, which was suspicious of containing high levels of methanol, a local official said Saturday. "One woman died on Thursday and the other on Friday, as 48 others had been admitted to the Snuol district referral hospital," Kong Kimny, governor of Snuol district, told Xinhua.

Cambodia had exported 84,419 tons of dry rubber in the first six months of 2018, up 21 percent over the same period last year, according to a General Directorate of Rubber report on Saturday. The Southeast Asian nation earned a gross revenue of 121 million U.S. dollars from the export during the January-June period this year, down 2.3 percent over the same period last year, the report said.

Cambodia ranks as one of the world's most corrupt countries - but after an extensive forensic investigation, Al Jazeera found that corruption stretches far beyond the country's borders, all the way to Australia . In 2016, the anti-corruption NGO, Global Witness, released a ground-breaking report exposing the widespread business interests of long-standing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, his family and their cronies.

"I'm in and out of different stalls and stores so much that I don't even know their names," Chinchakriya Un said, with a laugh. The chef had left her Brooklyn apartment at dawn with an empty external-frame backpack slung over one shoulder.

China has been a key partner in helping renovate and preserve Cambodia's cultural heritage, Cambodian Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeurng Sackona has said. During an interview on Thursday, Sackona told Xinhua that China has been involved in the restoration work on ruined temples in the complex of Angkor Archeological Park in northwestern Siem Reap province since 1997 by renovating the Chau Say Tevoda temple, and then the Ta Keo temple.

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Last month, the daughter of a jailed Cambodian opposition party leader received an email from a well-seeming activist at a reputed Cambodian non-profit.

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The U.S. imposed visa sanctions on Myanmar and Laos Tuesday after the nations refused to take back immigrants Washington wants to deport. The two Southeast Asian nations join the running list of countries which have delayed or declined to accept nationals slated for expulsion from the U.S., and are among a growing number the Trump administration has retaliated against with visa restrictions.