Information about Cambodia
Actual news of Cambodia
Khmernews
Daily updated news of Cambodian policy, business, social affairs, sport and cultur.
www.khmernews.com
Cambodian Information Center
This independent forum strives at promoting democratization and spreading universal rights. Therefore it supports those who “champion these principles” with what is basically a collection of links and a platform for diverse organizations. This site thus provides an overview about NGOs, Radio Stations, Television Channels, and Cultural organizations active in the mentioned domains
www.cambodia.org up
Phnom Penh Post
This is the online edition of the newspaper Phnom Penh Post. Four to five Articles from the current paper edition are freely available on the internet. In addition there is a number of commentaries accessible to provide up/to/date information on political issues.
www.phnompenhpost.com/ (eng.) up
Webportal Cambodian Online
A wide range of information on culture, history and the political system side by side with useful hints, contact information and maps for tourists.
www.cambodianonline.net/homecambodianews.htm up
Political, social and economic back ground information
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
The Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) wants to contribute to Cambodia™s sustainable development and the well-being of its people through the generation of high quality policy-relevant development research, knowledge dissemination and capacity building.
CDRI works to achieve this objectives in partnership with Cambodian public institutions and civil society, and their regional and international development partners,
CDRI produces independent, objective, policy-relevant development research, to maximise its accessibility to policy makers, influencers and stakeholders, and to have it affect policy in five interrelated areas that are key for Cambodia™s sustainable development:
- economy, trade and regional cooperation;
- poverty reduction, agricultural development and rural livelihoods;
- democratic governance and public sector reform;
- natural resources and the environment;
- human security, peace building and conflict transformation. up
World Bank in Cambodia
Reports, statistics and data, projects and programs of the World Bank in Cambodia.
www.worldbank.org/kh up
Asian Development Bank in Cambodia
Reports, statistics and projects of the Asian Development Bank in Cambodia
www.adb.org/cambodia/ up
Bureau of Asian and Pacific Affairs, Cambodia
Facts and Figures, as well as short explanations in selected areas such as, Geography, People, Government, Economy etc
www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2732.htm up
ADHOC
The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) was founded by a group of former political priosners in December 1991 after the signing of the Paris Peace Agreements on October 23, 1991. ADHOC is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization. ADHOC wants
- A society that respects human rights
- to educate and empower the people to realize and defend their rights and to advocate people in the state powers to work for better governance and respect of human rights
- to bring about changes in policies and practices of democratic institutions, especially the judicial system
Further information: www.adhoc-chra.org up
History of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge regime took power on 17 April 1975 and was overthrown on 7 January 1979. Up to three million people perished during this period of 3 years, 8 months and 20 days. The end of Khmer Rouge period was followed by a civil war. That war finally ended in 1998, when the Khmer Rouge political and military structures were dismantled.
In 1997 the government requested the United Nations (UN) to assist in establishing a trial to prosecute the senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge. In 2001 the Cambodian National Assembly passed a law to create a court to try serious crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime 1975-1979. This court is called the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea (Extraordinary Chambers or ECCC).
This special new court was created by the government and the UN but it will be independent of them.
All about the ECCC: www.eccc.gov.kh/english/. up
