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Cambodia MPs pass law allowing stripping of citizenship
AFP, Published on 25/08/2025
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodian parliamentarians passed on Monday legislation allowing people who collude with foreign countries to be stripped of citizenship, a law rights groups fear will be used to banish dissent.
Air Canada and union agree to end strike
Reuters, Published on 19/08/2025
» TORONTO - Air Canada’s unionised flight attendants reached an agreement with the country’s largest carrier on Tuesday, ending a strike by cabin crew — the first in 40 years — that had upended travel plans for hundreds of thousands of passengers.
Air Canada to resume flights after directive ending strike
Reuters, Published on 17/08/2025
» Air Canada plans to resume flights on Sunday after the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) acted on a directive from the country's Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to end a cabin crew strike that caused the suspension of around 700 daily flights.
Cambodia marks Unesco recognition of Khmer Rouge sites as places of 'peace and reflection'
Reuters, Published on 13/07/2025
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodia held ceremonies across the country on Sunday to celebrate Unesco's recognition of three former Khmer Rouge sites as World Heritage, honouring their transformation from centres of repression to places of peace and reflection.
Cambodian genocide sites added to World Heritage list
Online Reporters, Published on 12/07/2025
» Three torture and execution sites used by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia to perpetrate genocide 50 years ago have been added to the Unesco World Heritage List.
In a Ukrainian strip club, war is laid bare
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» KHARKIV, Ukraine - When Lisa, 20, laces into her ultra-high heels for her shift at a strip club in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, she knows that aside from dancing, she will have to comfort traumatised soldiers.
A coffin for Pol Pot's memory, 50 years after Phnom Penh's fall
AFP, Published on 14/04/2025
» ANLONG VENG - A new coffin-shaped structure topped with a clear plastic roof looms over the cremation site of Pol Pot in Anlong Veng, a testament to the estimated two million Cambodian lives lost under his genocidal rule.
Vietnamese journalist gets 2 1/2 years in prison for Facebook posts
New York Times, Published on 01/03/2025
» HO CHI MINH — A court in Vietnam sentenced one of the country's most influential journalists to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for "abusing democratic freedoms" with about a dozen posts on Facebook that criticised or questioned the government.
Room for dissent narrows under new Cambodian PM
The New York Times, Published on 24/12/2024
» PHNOM PENH — Until last year, most Cambodians had lived under only one leader. Hun Sen ruled as prime minister for nearly four decades, tightening his iron grip over the country and systematically silencing the opposition, activists and independent media.
Rights group says Vietnam's jailing of Khmer monks violated religious freedom
Reuters, Published on 28/11/2024
» HANOI — Human rights activists accused Vietnam of infringing freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to six ethnically Khmer Buddhist monks and three religious activists.