Flash Info: Tour Guide Arrested for Plotting over Comments Made on Social Media Pin Poch, a 51-year-old tour guide and active social media user from Siem Reap province, was arrested on 14 October 2025 by a group of plainclothes authorities while he was at his wife’s sto...

Pin Poch, a 51-year-old tour guide and active social media user from Siem Reap province, was arrested on 14 October 2025 by a group of plainclothes authorities while he was at his wife’s store in front of their house in Siem Reap town.

CAMBODIA/UK: The UK sanctions on “Prince Group Transnational Crime Organisation” included BYEX crypto exchange. BYEX has posted denying it has any links to Prince or Chen Zhi. Let’s have a look… 1/5

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

Delayed US report on global human trafficking is released Release comes after a Guardian investigation revealed US pullback on anti-trafficking efforts, which Trump officials denied

GLOBAL/US: US Department of State has released long-delayed, legally required report on human trafficking. report names Cambodia a ‘state sponsor’ of trafficking for the first time, a designation that can lead to sanctions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The western world is properly fucked. Elected officials, young internet podcasters, and everyday people valorising a fascist white man who got Luigi'd. A generation of young people, especially men, who have properly drank the nazi koolaid. And it's exactly what the liberal world order wanted.

Yeah, we're cooked.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S8pVQq/

The Thai military’s arbitrary attempt to lay barbed wire on Cambodian territory was halted today as hundreds of villagers protested, forcing a withdrawal.

On the "Domestic Rivalry Theory" and the "International Family Feud Theory" Examining the origins of the Thailand-Cambodia clash

Some are seeking to explain the origins of the Thai-Cambodia clash by invoking domestic rivalries in Thai politics. My thoughts on why this theory makes little sense, and why the conflict is far better explained by an international family feud: www.coffeeparliament.com/p/on-the-dom...

Tonight marks the final broadcast of the RFA Khmer news program due to the termination of federal grants.

Aviation police stop woman from falling into suspected honey trap - Focus Taiwan Taiwan's Aviation Police Bureau (APB) on Wednesday revealed that the agency recently persuaded a Taiwanese woman not to go to Cambodia after concluding she was the victim of a human-trafficking honey ...

TAIWAN/CAMBODIA: Police at Taipei airport persuade Taiwanese woman not to go to Cambodia after concluding she was the victim of recruitment scam. The woman was departing on her first trip abroad on a one-way ticket after befriending man online. focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

Communities, Unions Saddened and Fear Loss of Voice After Trump Cuts Funds to VOA, RFA, Puts Staff On Leave | CamboJA News Independent radio stations, Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), have been suspended unexpectedly, raising concern among advocates of press freedom, unionists, and civil society in Cambod...

Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) have been suspended unexpectedly, raising concern among advocates of press freedom, unionists, and civil society in Cambodia.

100 Thais Face Serious Charges for Cambodia-Based Scams Thai authorities have announced charges against 100 Thai nationals for their involvement in transnational call center scams operating from Cambodia. These individuals were among 119 Thais deported fro...

Thai authorities have announced charges against 100 Thai nationals for their involvement in transnational call center scams operating from Cambodia.

French Ambassador to Cambodia Jacques Pellet met with Dy Vichea, deputy chief of the National Police, to discuss the measures taken by the Cambodian authorities in connection with the Thai investigation into the murder of French citizen Lim Kimya. France is monitoring closely the investigation.

Air pollution in the Asia-Pacific region is causing massive damage to children's health across the entire region, in countries from Mongolia to Myanmar, to the Philippines to Papua New Guinea. Moderating a UNICEF press conference on this today at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.

We’ve been working together for years, but now, shocking news—Cambodian authorities are not welcoming “A Good Person”.

It’s disheartening to lose another resourceful individual who dedicated his life to shedding light on the pressing environmental issues in Cambodia.

Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging BANGKOK, Thailand — On Jan. 5, Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia. Flynn has lived and reported in the country since 2019, but upon his return from a brief visit to neighbor...

After more than five years of reporting from Cambodia, my time there has been cut short arbitrarily. Immensely grateful to all who helped me and I'm proud of the work myself and my colleagues did for @mongabay.bsky.social and others.

Heartbroken to leave behind the country that had become home.

RELEASE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Support for Elon Musk Warrants Impeachment | Revolving Door Project Bessent’s decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people.

NEW statement from our @jeffhauser.bsky.social calling for the impeachment of Scott Bessent:

"Bessent's decision to hand the unelected Musk and his covert, unaccountable DOGE wrecking crew the keys to the federal money spigot is a blatant attack on democracy that will harm working people."

Huge protest outside the USAID building today against Trump and Musk's illegal shutdown.

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)

Statement on Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn’s blacklisting from Cambodia following his reporting on illegal logging We can now confirm that on the evening of Jan. 5, 2025, Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia while returning from a vacation. Immigration officials at the airport told Flynn t...

According to documents produced by immigration officials at Siem Reap International Airport, Flynn was placed on Cambodia’s blacklist as of Nov. 25.​ Flynn’s blacklisting came just three days after a France24 documentary scrutinizing carbon offsetting efforts in Cambodia that was aired on Nov. 22.

Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging BANGKOK, Thailand — On Jan. 5, Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia. Flynn has lived and reported in the country since 2019, but upon return from a brief visit to neighboring ...

Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia. He has lived & reported in country since 2019, but upon return from a brief visit to neighboring Thailand, Cambodian immigration officials accused him of having acquired a fake visa & told him he was “permanently banned” from returning

Cambodian activists in Thailand on edge after Bangkok killing Rights campaigners say governments cooperating to pursue dissidents

Cambodian activists in Thailand on edge after Bangkok killing

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid

This makes me sick. Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

People can’t afford rent and groceries already, the President of the United States should not be dragging us into a trade war with Mexico and Canada.

The fallout of US President Trump’s foreign aid freeze continues to affect vulnerable communities in SE Asia: The Jesuit Refugee Service announces the suspension of its assistance services for forcibly displaced people, particularly from Myanmar, in Bangkok and Mae Sot.

Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Halt Is Worrying, Cambodian NGOs Say, As Programs Left in Limbo | CamboJA News The Trump administration’s 90-day suspension of foreign assistance funding has brought critical development programs in Cambodia to a standstill, sparking concern among NGOs and civil society organiza...

cambojanews.com/trump-admini...

Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
 
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour. 

Let's steal those ideas.

Trump says to ‘clean out’ Gaza, urges Arab countries to take more refugees President Donald Trump said he wanted Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza so they could "maybe live in peace" there.

Trump said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and push the millions of Palestinians living there into neighboring countries.

There is a name for this — ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.

This outrageous idea should be condemned by every American.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Air Pollution: Addressing Long-standing Fear of Being Called Incompetent Measuring air pollution in Cambodia remains a contentious issue. This week, despite growing public alarm over the dangers of air pollution, as highlighted by...

A critical question arises: why did it take the Environment Ministry, and other responsible government agencies, so long to acknowledge the severity of Cambodia's air pollution crisis, particularly in the capital?