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Cambodia's surrogate mothers risk jail for Chinese couples
AFP, Published on 21/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Pregnant and scared, Yin hides in a house on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- one of an untold number of Cambodian surrogate mothers risking jail time for lucrative payouts from Chinese clients.
American gets 10 years for buying child sex in Cambodia
AFP, Published on 14/06/2016
» PHNOM PENH - A court on Tuesday sentenced an American man to a decade in jail for sexually abusing girls as young as five, part of the latest effort to deter foreign paedophiles.
Profile: Cambodia's private paedophile hunters
AFP, Published on 13/05/2016
» SIEM REAP - Using tip-offs, stakeouts and stealth, civilian investigators are playing a crucial role in helping Cambodian police track down foreign paedophiles, as they battle to spread the message that the impoverished nation will no longer be a playground for abusers.
World Wide Web turns 25 years old
AFP, Published on 09/03/2014
» Twenty-five years ago, the World Wide Web was just an idea in a technical paper from an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.
Move over, rickshaw: Cambodia launches public buses
AFP, Published on 09/02/2014
» Motorcycles, cars, tuk-tuks and the humble rickshaw dominate its traffic-clogged roads, but now the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh is launching a new weapon in the fight against chronic congestion: its first public buses in over a decade.
Cambodia 'unjust' detention centres
AFP, Published on 10/12/2013
» Hundreds of drug users, sex workers, beggars and street children are unlawfully detained in Cambodian rehabilitation centres where they face torture, sexual violence and forced labour, a leading rights group said Monday.
Indonesia protests to US as spying row spreads
AFP, Published on 30/10/2013
» Indonesia protested strongly to the United States Wednesday after a report said Washington had been monitoring phone calls and communication networks from its embassy in Jakarta, as the spying row spread to Asia.