Satellite images of the Ream naval base in Cambodia reveal what appear to be two 1,500-tonne Chinese corvettes docked alongside a Chinese-built pier that could handle much bigger warships, seemingly validating concerns that Cambodia would allow the Chinese to turn Ream into a base for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) despite constant denials from the Cambodian government.
China’s largest-ever military drills with Cambodia on Thursday included a showcase performance by the literal dogs of war — a squad of robot dogs with automatic rifles mounted on their backs.
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report on Monday that accused North Korean state-controlled hackers of sharing their shadowy banking and money-laundering networks with scam artists and drug traffickers across Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
The United Nations on Tuesday issued a report on the brutal treatment of people forced to work in online and telephone scam centers across Southeast Asia.
Facebook, which has rebranded its parent company as Meta, on Wednesday decided not to ban former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Monday that he had tested positive for coronavirus just two days after meeting with President Joe Biden and other world leaders at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
During his opening remarks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit Joe Biden mistakenly referred to the prime minister of “Colombia” when he should have said “Cambodia.”
The Cambodian city of Sihanoukville was a major international resort destination before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic crippled its tourism industry. The city is now littered with empty and half-finished “ghost buildings” abandoned by Chinese investors. According to local entrepreneurs, these unsightly gang-infested husks are keeping the tourism industry from making a comeback.
The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish was caught recently in Cambodia’s Mekong River, and people looked on in awe of the massive creature.
China on Wednesday hailed its “iron-clad partnership” with Cambodia and broke ground on a joint project to expand the Ream Naval Base.
The Foreign Ministry of Indonesia issued remarks on Thursday insisting it was not offended that no American government officials greeted President Joko Widodo upon his arrival in Washington on Tuesday.
The Royal Thai Police recently rescued 700 Thais from Chinese criminal gang-run compounds in Cambodia, where Thais lured into financial telephone scams are held against their will in debt bondage, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
A man from China was kidnapped by a gang and used as a “blood slave” in Cambodia for nearly half a year before escaping this month.
The U.S. embassy in Cambodia on Wednesday complained the Cambodian government “has not been fully transparent about the intent, nature, and scope” of a project to renovate the naval base at Ream, apparently with assistance from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China.
Britain’s top diplomat met Wednesday with his Cambodian counterpart as he pushed for closer economic relations to Southeast Asia.
A 52-year-old French humanitarian worker faces charges of sexually abusing 24 boys in several developing countries during his overseas work from 2013 to 2015.
Vice Media on Sunday removed an article featuring digitally altered photos of Cambodian genocide victims with smiles on their faces after complaints from the Cambodian government and a petition to demand an apology from the media organization.
China shut down almost half of the water flow through its southernmost dam on the Mekong River on December 31, reducing water levels downstream by enough for a U.S.-funded satellite monitoring system to notice.
Friday was World Environment Day, apparently, and, to celebrate, the leader of the world’s fifth-largest economy has promised to commit green suicide
In Sihanoukville, a Chinese-funded gambling enclave in Cambodia, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda has convinced expatriates that their investments in the local casino culture.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) explained how “history is replete with examples of socialism gone awry” in an exclusive interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Sunday.
“I’m currently getting death threats since the ad aired,” said Elizabeth Heng, founder of the political action committee (PAC) New Faces of the GOP, referring to a political advertisement produced by her PAC depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and referencing the Cambodian genocide that aired during Thursday’s ABC-hosted Democrat debate.
Vietnam, which presently has tense relations with China, is building a 5G network without using products from China’s telecom giant Huawei.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is threatening to kill opposition politicians if the European Union revokes its grant of trade preferences to Cambodia.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported a total of 36 illegal aliens from Cambodia, a country that once refused to take their nationals back.
Contents: Cambodia denies major China-funded seaport project is a military base; Cambodia is becoming increasingly Chinese and military
Contents: Thailand and Thaksin Shinawatra prepare for new national elections; The shadow of Thaksin Shinawatra; Brief generational history of Thailand
Twitter has followed in Facebook’s footsteps by blocking a campaign video ad for Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng. Facebook eventually admitted that a campaign video including the communist atrocities in Cambodia is not “shocking, disrespectful, or sensational,” but Twitter, which describes the ad as “obscene,” disagrees.
Contents: China-Cambodia grow closer militarily, as Hun Sen steals parliamentary election; China’s military aid and infrastructure investments bring debt trap to Cambodia
Facebook has reportedly restored a previously banned advertisement from Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng after the ad was initially deemed “too shocking, disrespectful, or sensational” for the platform.
Facebook has banned Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng’s campaign video about communist crimes, claiming the platform doesn’t allow “shocking, disrespectful, or sensational” content.
Contents: Cambodia’s China-backed dictator Hun Sen expected to win fraudulent election on Sunday; Brief generational history of Cambodia
Contents: Cambodia’s dictatorial Hun Sen forces sale of independent Phnom Penh Post; Phnom Penh Post had a combative relationship with Hun Sen
California “sanctuary state” Gov. Jerry Brown has empowered the lawyers for five convicts facing deportation with pardons for the crimes upon which their deportations are based.
Comedian Bill Murray’s clumsy attempt to glorify the Parkland gun control activists by comparing them to Vietnam protesters was shockingly ignorant and insensitive for an elderly man who was actually alive during the Vietnam War aftermath and the Cambodian genocide. The truth of that history provides a powerful argument against gun control fantasies.
Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul
Contents: Malaysia’s Najib Razak condemns Myanmar’s (Burma’s) genocide of Rohingyas at ASEAN summit; Cambodia’s Hun Sen threatens violence at protesters at ASEAN meeting
Contents: India and Vietnam sign security agreements for the South China Sea; India’s relationship with Southeast Asian nations overshadowed by China
Contents: Bangladesh formally protests Burma’s (Myanmar’s) troop buildup near border; April monsoon rains will have disastrous impact on Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
Ten Western tourists have been detained in Cambodia after they participated in a pool party, accused of “dancing pornographically.”
