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Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks to Social Affairs Minister Vong Soth at a government event in Prey Veng on March 17, 2022.

Cambodia Open to Taking Ukrainian Refugees: Hun Sen

Cambodia would take on refugees from the war in Ukraine if they fled to Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday, and reminded Cambodians to not volunteer to fight in eastern European country.

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Wife of Jailed Translator Seeking Asylum After Arrest Threat Over Protests

A woman who protested the detention of her husband, who was jailed in relation to his work on a child sex trafficking documentary that officials called fiction, said Tuesday that she had fled the country and has applied for U.N. refugee status after Cambodian authorities threatened her with arrest.