US Places Conditions on Aid to Cambodia

The United States has followed through on criticisms of the recent crackdown on the Cambodian opposition and civil society by linking its multimillion-dollar aid package for 2017 to improvements in human rights. The next fiscal year’s assistance package to Cambodia will amount to about $77.8 million, according to an appropriations bill approved last month. It will fund projects aimed at improving health care, de-mining and the Khmer Rouge tribunal, among other issues. Globally, the...

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