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Around 60 policemen from around the country took part in a training workshop on Thursday to help them combat illegal human trafficking. The two-day training came as Cambodia approved a measure to tighten controls on Cambodian migrant laborers. Cambodia is facing dual problems of human trafficking and an increase in the number of laborers who legally seek work abroad, some of whom have reported serious abuses as a result

Senior United Nations officials say countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region including Thailand, Cambodia and Laos are failing to apply existing laws aimed at combating human trafficking.  The conclusions come as a U.N.

Cambodia remains both a source and destination for trafficked persons, especially for the sex trade, fishing industry and increasingly labor export to Malaysia, an annual US report says. “Cambodia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking,” according to the US State Department, which issued its annual human trafficking report this week

The Cambodian government is prepared to deport 187 Chinese nationals that were swept up in a raid earlier this week. Officials at the Ministry of Interior said Friday Cambodia was cooperating with China’s Ministry of Public Security to return the group, which it characterized as part of a “mafia.” In all, about 500 people were arrested in a raid in the the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, including nationals from Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia. Authorities say they were operating an extortion racket and that police had confiscated Internet phone and other equipment the group used to collect money

Many resource-rich countries have fallen prey to the natural resource curse [1]. But a handful of developing countries have managed to escape it. This note examines four resource-rich countries and the policies they have followed since the beginning of the 1970s. One, Nigeria, is a well-publicized case of oil wealth impoverishing rather than enriching the [...]