Pak Beng, a $1.88-billion dam about 1,540 kilometers (960 miles) from the Cambodia-Laos border, would be the third dam Laos is building on the lower Mekong mainstream.
The amendment to the 1997 Law on Political Parties was requested by Prime Minister Hun Sen in late January will change the law to prohibit people with criminal convictions from holding senior positions in political parties and includes penalties for receiving foreign funding.
Freedom Park had been closed since January 4, 2014, after the authorities destroyed the opposition’s protest camp.
An outspoken government critic and popular grassroots activist, Kem Ley was gunned down last year on the morning of July 10 at a Caltex gas station in central Phnom Penh.
Sam Rainsy’s resignation was seen as a surprise to his supporters, Cambodians in general, and politicians.
Cambodia has reported only one death from malaria in 2016, down from nearly 400 a decade ago.
Pak Beng, a $1.88-billion dam about 1,540 kilometers (960 miles) from the Cambodia-Laos border, would be the third dam on the lower Mekong mainstream.
