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US Envoy Talks “Eroding” Democracy, Crackdowns, and Biden Administration 24 December 2020 width No media source currently available 0:00 0:32:02 0:00 U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy sat down with VOA Khmer’s Aun Chhengpor for an interview about the state of democracy and human rights in Cambodia. He said that Cambodia’s fledgling democracy has been eroded recently and that he urged Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to “do just the opposite.” He also discussed U.S. intent to assist Cambodia’s 2022 chairmanship of ASEAN, as well as other long-standing issues of d...

share PHNOM PENH —  The United States budget for 2021, passed late Monday night, outlines around $85 million in new funding for Cambodia with conditions on the country’s ability to resist “interference by the People’s Republic of China” and reverse rights abuses. The 5,593-page Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021, which now heads to President Donald Trump, was passed by both the House of Representatives and Senate late Monday night in Washington D.C. The document earmarks at least $85,505,000 in assistance for Cambodia. But to get those funds, it requires the U.S. Secretary of ...