ថ្ងៃចន្ទ ១៤កើត ថ្ងៃកោរ ខែជេស្ឋ ឆ្នាំខាល ចត្វាស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៦ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី១៣ ខែមិថុនា គ.ស.២០២២
Monday the 13th Waxing Moon, Head Shaving Day, Jeṭṭha B.E.2566 equivalent to June 13, A.D.2022 Year of the Tiger
Defense News
Cambodia has denied reports that the country is giving China “exclusive” access to a naval base undergoing construction along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand.

Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore over the weekend, Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh reminded the audience that the presence of foreign military bases on his country’s soil is in violation of the constitution.

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Top minister says negotiations with Washington near fruition
US-Cambodia relations had plummeted over Beijing’s influence
ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍ ១១រោច ខែពិសាខ ឆ្នាំខាល ចត្វាស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៦ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី២៦ ខែឧសភា គ.ស.២០២២
Thursday the 11th Waning Moon of Vesākha B.E.2566 equivalent to May 26, A.D.2022 Year of the Tiger
Bloomberg

Cambodia said ties with the US had improved significantly and it expects the Biden administration to lift sanctions imposed over its relations with China “very soon,” a senior minister said on Wednesday.

“We’re pushing very hard,” Kao Kim Hourn, Cambodia’s minister delegate to the country’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, referring to negotiations over sanctions.

“This is the best point we’ve had in our relationship in the past 72 years,” he said. “Bilateral trade and investment are rising and the leaders have met. We hope that we can achieve much more progress on some areas based on mutual respect.”

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Huge creature found in Mekong River where planned dams threaten ‘devastating’ ecological damage

ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍ ១២កើត ខែពិសាខ ឆ្នាំខាល ចត្វាស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៥ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី១២ ខែឧសភា គ.ស.២០២២
Thursday the 12th Waxing Moon of Vesākha B.E.2565 equivalent to May 12, A.D.2022 Year of the Tiger
The Guardian

A team of marine biologists have welcomed the discovery of a huge endangered freshwater stingray during a recent expedition to a remote stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia, though they warned the biodiversity of the area was under threat.

The stingray was accidentally caught by fishers in an 80-metre (260ft) deep pool in the Mekong in Cambodia’s north-eastern Stung Treng province. The visiting scientists helped return the animal alive.

Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada, said finding the 180kg (397lb) stingray, spanning 4 metres, was important.

“This catch was significant because it confirms the existence of these big fish in the stretch of river,” said Hogan, who led the United States Agency for International Development-funded Wonders of the Mekong expedition that wrapped up last week.

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President Biden Should Raise Key Issues with Regional Leaders
ថ្ងៃពុធ ១១កើត ខែពិសាខ ឆ្នាំខាល ចត្វាស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៥ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី១១ ខែឧសភា គ.ស.២០២២
Wednesday the 11th Waxing Moon of Vesākha B.E.2565 equivalent to May 11, A.D.2022 Year of the Tiger
HRW

The United States-ASEAN Special Summit on May 12, 2022 will embolden autocratic leaders unless it directly confronts the region’s worsening environment for human rights and democracy, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the summit’s host, US President Joseph Biden. Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should also acknowledge the bloc’s failure to achieve progress in addressing the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar since the February 2021 military coup.

“The Biden administration will need to convince ASEAN’s autocrats at the summit that the alliance’s ultimate future depends on democratic reform,” said John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “The US-ASEAN relationship needs to honestly and directly address the region’s deteriorating human rights situation and democratic backsliding.”

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ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍ ៥កើត ខែពិសាខ ឆ្នាំខាល ចត្វាស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៥ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី៥ ខែឧសភា គ.ស.២០២២
Thursday the 5th Waxing Moon of Vesākha B.E.2565 equivalent to May 5, A.D.2022 Year of the Tiger
DW