Cambodia’s ambassador to Indonesia on Wednesday interrupted a Jakarta press conference held by opposition vice-president Mu Sochua, who said the ambassador called her a “fugitive” and warned that Cambodian authorities would arrest her.
The daughter of detained opposition party president Kem Sokha, who is also a spokesperson for his outlawed Cambodia National Rescue Party, called exiled party leader Sam Rainsy’s promise to return to Cambodia next month a mere “PR stunt.”
Members of the outlawed opposition CNRP who have fled the country said this week that they will return to Cambodia next month alongside leader Sam Rainsy, despite the growing number of people arrested in connection with their support for Rainsy’s promised homecoming.
A former commune chief of the outlawed opposition has condemned “treasonous acts” by an exiled CNRP leader in an on-camera “confession” that opposition politicians say was coerced, two days after the ex-chief was charged for “plotting” against the government.
Cambodia’s draft access to information law is of “average quality” if compared to international standards, an expert who has analyzed the draft law said on Wednesday.
UPDATED 5:55 p.m. — The Phnom Penh Municipal Court once again deferred its decision against two former Radio Free Asia journalists accused of espionage, with a judge announcing that the case against them would be reinvestigated.
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, has proposed a wager with exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy after Rainsy called Manet’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point a “second-class diploma.”
A woman who protested the detention of her husband, who was jailed in relation to his work on a child sex trafficking documentary that officials called fiction, said Tuesday that she had fled the country and has applied for U.N. refugee status after Cambodian authorities threatened her with arrest.
Nearly half of the confiscated counterfeit cigarettes entering the European Union last year came from Cambodia, making it the bloc’s main source of fake smokes, ahead of Georgia and China, the European Commission said in a new report.
We asked four people — including an environmental activist, a sustainable growth advocate and two climate researchers — about Cambodia’s place in the climate conundrum. Here’s what they told us.
VOD is an independent media outlet producing radio programs and disseminating information to the public via the Internet.
© 2019 VOD. All Rights Reserved.
