Kampuchea News

23/12/2024

Scammed: Dissecting Cyber Slavery in Southeast Asia

24/10/2024

“My mind seems stuck. I will take a break from journalism for a while to rebuild my health.”

Mech Dara, an award-winning Cambodian journalist, was released on bail from Kandal provincial prison on October 24 at 12 p.m, following his public apology for posting fake news. He expressed uncertainty about continuing his journalism career, stating that he needed time to recover both physicall ...

20/10/2024

"I was taught how to hit on them for about three or four days. After being friends for about a week, you go in for the 'kill'."

Based in heavily guarded compounds, these scam centres are spread across South east Asia. Sky News has gone undercover to expose the reality of life inside for thousands of workers who are caught in a criminal web.

05/10/2024

AI-generated podcasts from Google on any topic you want — at your fingertips. I wonder what the one on copyright is about.

With this Google tool, you can make a show about any topic you could possibly imagine. The hosts aren’t human.

01/10/2024

Phnom Penh, October 1, 2024—We, the undersigned communities, media organisations and civil society groups, are calling for the immediate release of Cambodian journalist Mech Dara who was charged with incitement and sent to pretrial detention by the Phnom Penh Capital Court on October 1, 2024. A co...

18/09/2024

The biggest story currently gripping Southeast Asia emerged in the late 2010s with strange comments on Chinese-language social media and online message boards in which young Chinese men and women begged for help to escape from their so-called workplaces in Cambodia and other locations in the region.

Before the cyber-fraud industry and ‘pig butchering’ scams became the subject of diplomatic briefings and think tank reports, journalists were among the first to capture the early threads and weave them together into a picture that entailed corruption, money laundering, and labour rights abuses ...

17/09/2024

Do you believe the crazy? There's a bot for that.

Interact with an artificial intelligence model that seeks to persuade you against unsupported beliefs like conspiracy theories.

03/08/2024

“The Cambodian government cannot remain inactive in the face of this infamous online hate campaign against independent media that it has itself stigmatized by forcing them into exile."

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Cambodian government to do everything in their power to end the trolling campaign targeting the country’s main exiled media outlets, and to allow these media to operate within the country once again.

07/07/2024

"There's evidence of violence happening toward workers or people associated with it. In terms of threats to safety [for journalists], they definitely exist."

Journalists investigating billion-dollar scam centers harassed, surveilled, threatened with legal action

30/06/2024

"It blows your mind. And there's not one of them. There's not two of them. There's not 10. There's not 20. There's not 30. There's — even in our region — more than 40 centers and all of them are just getting bigger."

An interview with Judah Tana, International Director with Global Advanced Projects

29/06/2024

Tributes have been paid to master chapei musician, Kong Nay, who died at his Kampot home today