Thousands of opposition officials and activists have joined the Cambodian People’s Party after the government shut down their party in November. But under surveillance and heavy pressure, how much choice do they have?
The increasing tensions with the West come as Cambodia is drawing increasingly close to Beijing, which is offering political and economic support to Hun Sen.
Last month, the United States also suspended funding for the NEC, as well as issuing visa restrictions on dozens of senior officials.
The E.U. had previously announced some $8 million of funding for next year’s general election.
The National Bank of Cambodia chose Vann Molyvann to work on a private project to build 100 identical houses on a plot for their workers in Teuk Tla, near Phnom Penh International Airport.
Photos were posted last weekend on websites of two pro-government news outlets, whose editors say images were provided to them by police.
The lawyers also claimed that the merger of Kem Sokha’s Human Rights Party with the Sam Rainsy Party in 2012 was coordinated by Washington.
Most high-ranking opposition CNRP politicians had already fled the country in anticipation of the court decision against the party.
The more Cambodia's ruling party exerts control, the less clue it has about whether anyone truly supports it. Here's how it responds.
According to the latest NEC figures, some 530,000 new voters registered out of a total of 1.6 million unregistered voters.
When Hun Sen arrived in the Lao capital, the two leaders announced they had reached an agreement, with Hun Sen calling it a “huge victory.”
On Saturday, the last day of the national Water Festival holiday, Hun Sen said that the dissolution of the opposition party was a sure thing, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the question.
So far, only 40 of the CNRP’s local officials nationwide have defected, along with one lawmaker, according to Meng Sopheary, the party’s head of electoral affairs.
Ms. Savy and Mr. Saron said they had been working side by side to build their community for years, and were eager to continue cooperating as fellow commune officials, despite being on different sides of the political fence.
In an unusual move, Hun Sen in April held a press conference to promote a book written in Khmer that lauds Xi’s leadership style.
Report by Washington-based Stimson Center lays out new economic and technological opportunities for improving and diversifying region’s energy mix.
According to the Washington Post, Egyptian customs officers swarmed the ship and discovered a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades.
Cambodia should scrap some hydropower dams as alternative energy sources, such as solar power, are becoming cheaper, a U.S. think-tank said.
An international NGO said Laos' Don Sahong dam would block and threaten “vital subsistence and commercial fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin.”
Senior army officials join anti-US chorus with pledge to eliminate aggressors.
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