Phorn Bopha

In­ter­na­tion­al Fi­nance Cor­po­ra­tion’s watch­dog is prob­ing claims loans aimed at hard up are harm­ing com­mu­ni­ties.

Op­po­si­tion leader back in court af­ter al­most two years dur­ing which the gov­ern­ment con­tin­ued its crack­down on crit­ics.

Ac­tivists, rights groups say COVID-19 law is now be­ing de­ployed by the gov­ern­ment as an­oth­er tool to cur­tail free­doms.

His­toric agree­ment was forged in spir­it of post-Cold War op­ti­mism, but was test­ed al­most im­me­di­ate­ly.

Rong Chhun is ac­cused of ‘in­cite­ment’ and faces up to two years in prison if con­vict­ed.

NGO that forced gov­ern­ment into U-turn over con­tro­ver­sial dam is lat­est tar­get of deep­en­ing crack­down on dis­sent.

Gov­ern­ment us­ing puni­tive laws to tack­le surge in coro­n­avirus cas­es, as clo­sure of mar­kets leaves peo­ple hun­gry.

The South­east Asian na­tion is bat­tling a surge in COVID vari­ant cas­es traced back to a quar­an­tine breach.

The CNRP has been out­lawed, its lead­ers jailed and ex­iled, func­tionar­ies tar­get­ed, but it con­tin­ues to sur­vive.

The two were ar­rest­ed in a late night raid dur­ing 2017 po­lit­i­cal crack­down and ac­cused of spy­ing for the US.