Leonie Kijewski

Crit­ics say sys­tem of dams that Chi­na built de­prived mil­lions of peo­ple from South­east Asia of their liveli­hood.

Gov­ern­ment spokesper­son ad­mits over­crowd­ing in pris­ons as health ex­perts urge pre­cau­tions to stop spread of coro­n­avirus.

3,000 Cam­bo­di­an and Chi­nese troops join 19-day mil­i­tary ex­er­cis­es seen as a ges­ture of sol­i­dar­i­ty amid health emer­gency.

Cam­bo­dia is prepar­ing for sus­pen­sion of some its Every­thing But Arms trade priv­i­leges af­ter op­po­si­tion crack­down.

Tri­al of Kem Sokha un­der way two years af­ter he was ar­rest­ed in what some say is a po­lit­i­cal­ly charged pros­e­cu­tion.

Kem Sokha is ac­cused of col­lab­o­rat­ing with the US to over­throw the gov’t in case crit­ics say is po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed.

Wa­ter lev­els have fluc­tu­at­ed sharply with test­ing, but some are en­cour­aged that Chi­na gave warn­ing of its plan.

Plan cen­tres on drought fore­cast­ing but crit­ics say it failed to ad­dress im­pact of dams and hy­dropow­er projects.

Fu­ture of mi­nor­i­ty group liv­ing along Mekong Riv­er un­clear as gov­ern­ment seeks to ‘beau­ti­fy’ city be­fore world sum­mit.

Mekong Riv­er Com­mis­sion will meet in Ph­nom Penh as dams and drought take toll on the once-mighty wa­ter­way.