Tag: Cambodia
Cambodia: trade unionist Chhim Sithar sentenced to two years in prison
In Phnom Penh, nine union representatives were found guilty this morning of “incitement to disturb public order”. Facts regularly reproached to activists and politicians who are members of the opposition.…
Sera, and Cambodia turns red
In Khmer, to have “the soul at the edge of the hair” means “to be scared to death”. For the first time, Séra, a Franco-Cambodian author, delivers an autobiographical and…
Alice Dumas Kol, return to Cambodia in the footsteps of her family history
Alice Dumas Kol was born in New York in 1989 and grew up in Paris. She exercises her profession as a psychoanalyst there after having worked for the ballet Preljocaj…
“Return to Seoul”, an adoption story like no other
It is the vibrant story of a young woman once adopted in Korea by French parents and who suddenly finds herself, in spite of herself, in search of her origins.…
At least ten dead and over 50 injured in hotel fire in Cambodia
At least ten people have died and at least 30 have been injured in a fire at the Grand Diamond City casino hotel in the Cambodian city of Poipet, near…
Opposition convicts in Cambodia
Published: Less than 10 min ago full screenSam Rainsy at an airport in Indonesia in 2019. File photo. Photo: Tatan Syuflana/AP/TT A court in Cambodia has convicted 36 opposition figures…
Opposition convicts in Cambodia
Among the 36 are a number of well-known politicians from the opposition party CNRP. Among other things, they are said to have tried to help expelled former politicians to get…
The Franco-Cambodian director Rithy Panh in a word, a gesture and a silence
02:17 A refugee in France after suffering terror in Cambodia, the orphan has become a master of the 7th art. For Rithy Panh, cinema is a battle against obscurantism. A…
US Secretary of Defense meets Chinese counterpart in Cambodia
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe Tuesday (November 22nd) in Cambodia as the two sides struggle to contain tensions. The meeting between Messrs.…
first visit by a US president to an ASEAN summit since 2017
This is the first visit by an American president to an ASEAN summit since 2017. Joe Biden landed on the morning of November 12 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where the…