Exiled leaders of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) have called on all Cambodians to join their efforts to “restore democracy” and for the government to defer to appeals by the international community for change.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng would not be “stupid” enough to plan a coup d’ètat, Prime Minister Hun Sen said at the opening of a stretch of railway on Monday.
The Phnom Penh embassies of the U.S. and China — whose governments have a dubious history of destabilizing Cambodia for their own geopolitical ends and both stoked and prolonged the country’s two-decades-long civil war — have become embroiled in their second Internet flame war over the country this year.
Cambodia will not accept recommendations to release opposition leader Kem Sokha from house arrest when it delivers its formal reply to the U.N.’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its rights record later this year, an official involved in the process said, but will take on board more “general” reform advice.
The U.N. says it has closed its investigation into a Preah Vihear land protester whose whereabouts have been unknown since his arrest by authorities in January.
Prime Minister Hun Sen suggested he would sue former opposition leader Sam Rainsy for at least $2 million over alleged insults on social media and would confiscate his assets in the country.
A delegation from the European Union will visit Cambodia next week to discuss its ongoing process of reviewing Cambodia’s continued eligibility for the “Everything But Arms” tariff reductions.
A few political parties registered for the upcoming in the provincial, municipal and district council elections hope they might win some seats — even as prominent civil society officials said that they have no chance.
A day after he suggested reintroducing the death penalty for child rapists, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that he had changed his mind after considering the negative public feedback to the proposal.
Two international human rights organizations have condemned the legal procedures used in the continued detention of opposition leader Kem Sokha, […]
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