Even though the legal age of marriage is 18, cultural traditions and poverty continue to encourage early marriages. In tribal ...

PHNOM PENH, Dec 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The trafficking of Cambodian "brides" to China has risen sharply this year with mass job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic driving more young ...

Promised a job that would support her impoverished family, 17-year-old Veasna Sreypov was instead cheated and sold into servitude PHNOM PENH, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With her father's ...

Everyone did well from Nary’s marriage to a Chinese man, except the young Cambodian bride herself, who returned home from the six-year ordeal destitute, humiliated and with little prospect of seeing ...

Among other nations, Cambodia has become a major source of forced brides in China, despite efforts by both governments. Other common sources are Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. In the first half of last ...

Cambodia is pressing modern young couples to honor traditional Khmer wedding practices in the countdown to a UNESCO decision on an Intangible Cultural Heritage listing. Authorities say the ...