Opinion

OPINON: Thai Diplomacy is Becoming a Joke due to Unruly Domestic Complications

AKP Phnom Penh, June 25, 2025 -- Nobody knows whom to trust in Thailand’s media communication. The weakest link would be the Thai foreign affairs’ people as they have become the puppet faces of insincere communications that are contradictory to facts on the ground. In the breaking news from Bangkok on 24 June, it was reported that Thai-Cam...

Opinion: Enhancing Food Security Amid Global Supply Chain Disruptions

AKP Phnom Penh, June 18, 2025 -- Since the United Nations enshrined the right to adequate food in 1976, food security has remained a central tenet of global development policy. Yet, this ideal remains elusive for over 800 million people worldwide. The global food system, once hailed for its efficiency, is under mounting pressure from climate...

OPINION: Why Can’t the Two Buddhist Neighbouring Kingdoms Peacefully Co-exist?

AKP Phnom Penh, June 07, 2025 — Cambodia and Thailand are predominantly Buddhist neighbouring kingdoms that share deep historical, cultural, and religious ties. Their land border, stretching over 800 kilometres, was originally defined by the Franco-Siamese treaties of 1904 and 1907. Despite these shared affinities, tensions have frequentl...

Op-Ed: A Just Transition for Cambodia – Unlocking Inclusive Green Growth

AKP Phnom Penh, April 30, 2025 -- As Cambodia approaches graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) status by 2029 and navigates turbulent times, it is presented with formidable challenges and transformative opportunities. The path ahead must safeguard economic growth and ensure sustainable, inclusive, and resilient development. The concept o...

OPINION: The AI plagiarist Sam

AKP Phnom Penh, February 02, 2025 — Artificial Intelligence is, of course, a tool of both the present and the future. Many have embraced AI, it’s trending. However, for individuals with inspirational and intellectual deficiency like Mr. Sam Rainsy, AI is too good tool to be immoderately used. In his recent article published by online news The Geopo...

OPINION: China’s DeepSeek-R1: a Game-Changing AI Release or Strategic Gesture?

AKP Phnom Penh, January 29, 2025 -- In a move that has taken the global artificial intelligence (AI) community by surprise, DeepSeek, a private Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng, has open-sourced its cutting-edge reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, alongside detailed scientific documentat...

OPINION: The US is About to Launch an Open Attack on Global Trade Stability. Can China Defend the Existing Order?

AKP Phnom Penh, December 24, 2024 -- The threat by president-elect Trump to place 100 percent tariffs on any country that backs any other currency to replace the US dollar is an open attack on global trade stability. “Snap, crackle, pop.” No, it’s not the sound of an American breakfast cereal. It’s the sound of global trade and supply chain s...

Op-ed: The Genocide Convention and Cambodia: Lessons from the Past, Prevention for the Future

AKP Phnom Penh, May 20, 2024 — The Genocide Convention, formally the “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”, is an instrument of international law that, for the first time ever, codified the crime of genocide. It firmly signifies the world’s commitment to “never again” — never again to allow such crimes as those c...

Opinion: Amnesty International Lies and Deceives International Public Opinion

AKP Phnom Penh, April 5, 2024 — As a citizen attached to a certain number of values, I cannot support that criteria regarding democracy and human rights are used for certain countries and not for others. For a long time, since 1979, Cambodia has been almost systematically the victim of this policy of double standard. I could cite a very large nu...

OPINION: China Seeks Harmony Not Hegemony

AKP Phnom Penh, December 14, 2023 -- “China has a continuous civilisation for 5,000 years,” Sun Yeli, Communist Party of China Central Committee member, said when launching the World Conference on China Studies in Shanghai. The challenge is to promote understanding of this continuity and the way it shapes current policy. Civilisation is mo...

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