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Vietnam has announced that Matrix Holdings is in negotiations to build a $200 million complex in the city of Da Nang specifically dedicated to horseracing.

The Trump administration's campaign to topple the government of Venezuela raises the issue of whether the U.S. government is willing to adhere to the same ...

G-bond yields hit seven-month low, Ha Noi to hold conference on investment, tourism promotion with Japan, Vietnam-Laos trade tops 1 billion USD in 2018, ...

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, will lead a top-ranking delegation on a state visit to Cambodia on Monday and ...

Florida Senator Marco Rubio said Venezuela's opposition members "really have no alternative" as they attempt to defy President Nicolás Maduro's border ...

Editor's Note: Former diplomats, researchers, and human rights activists gathered recently at the University of Melbourne, Australia, for the book launch of ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen took to Facebook on Tuesday – Meak Bochea Day, an important festival in Buddhism – to hail the benefits the state religion brings to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen “will be someone who betrays sovereignty and disobeys the constitution if he changes his mind to meet EU's demands”, Royal Academy ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) issued a press release on Wednesday on the candidates who are to take part in the third-mandate council elections in ...

Authors: Kimkong Heng, University of Queensland and Veasna Var, UNSW Canberra. Cambodia is drifting towards autocracy with a clear trend.

Cambodia has issued a strong response to the European Union's announcement that it is beginning the process to withdraw preferential duty-free and ...

A group of 19 non-governmental organisations and associations have urged the Kingdom's legislative and executive bodies to expedite the passage of a draft ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia is teetering on the verge of economic crisis, as it faces higher export tariffs into Britain due to Brexit at a time when the E.

Cambodia's foreign policy has seen remarkable improvements after 1993 when the country held its UN-organized national election. The Cambodian ...

French Senator Francois Grosdidier, who was in Cambodia the past week conducting meetings with government officials, vowed on Saturday to lobby EU ...

Cambodia's casino industry, once nothing more than a footnote in the global casino space, has grown significantly in the past year.

The former senior adviser to the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Kong Korm, has been named the honorary president of ...

Cambodia's Interior Ministry has received a warrant to arrest acting president of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy upon ...

The demonstration is being organized by a CNRP offshoot, the Cambodia National Rescue Movement, which was founded by the CNRP's former president Sam ...

The National Assembly on Thursday ratified two amendments to laws intended to improve the representation and efficiency of sub-national administrations and ...

The National Assembly passes an amendment to the law on district council elections.

More than 20 countries will send representatives to attend the 27th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum from January 14 to January 17 in ...

Cambodia's rubber stamp parliament on Thursday approved draft laws to increase the number of local level government positions, after Prime Minister Hun Sen ...

A senior government official on Monday said that the amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties has reached its final stage and is merely awaiting ...

The newly-appointed Chinese ambassador to Cambodia met with National Assembly president Heng Samrin and said China was committed to respecting the ...

Chinese ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian said that China was committed to respect the Kingdom's sovereignty and independence, according to an ...

Acting president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy was on Thursday labelled “bewildered” by a senior government official ...

A senior ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) official on Wednesday warned of opposition leader Sam Rainsy's impending “isolation” when the amendment ...

Chairman of the Commission on Foreign Affairs meets with a French National Assembly member to discuss EBA.

The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved a proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties in a move that could pave the ...

Hundreds of former opposition members banned from politics could return to the arena after the National Assembly yesterday approved an amendment to the ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday warned that those in his court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) who “play [Prime Minister] Hun ...

The National Assembly, which will host its plenary session on Thursday, will debate the proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties, ...

The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly met on Wednesday to discuss the proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties ...

The National Assembly is reviewing a five-year ban on more than 100 members of the former opposition party, which could allow them to return to politics, ...

National Assembly president Heng Samrin yesterday called on youth to maintain hard-earned peace in the Kingdom following decades of war as he ...

The National Assembly on Monday launched The People's Struggle: Cambodia Reborn, a biography describing the early life and struggle of current National ...

The National Assembly yesterday launched the memoir of its president Heng Samrin, detailing his struggle to overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime and rebuild ...

The National Assembly has launched the book of President Heng Samrin, detailing his struggling to overthrow Pot Pot's regime and rebuilding the country after ...

The National Assembly yesterday unanimously approved the national budget for 2019, which will be 11.4 percent higher than this year's, amounting to $6.7 ...

The Cambodian People's Party (CPP)-controlled National Assembly approved the $6.7 billion national budget for next year on Thursday, but a former opposition ...

The National Assembly yesterday approved a law on the extradition of criminals between Cambodia and Russia.

The National Assembly today unanimously approved next year's $6.7 billion national budget, an increase of 11.4 percent over 2018.

When a country has a strongman for a ruler, an army at his disposal, and control of the media, how can the people fight back? You go after the one thing he does ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Council of Ministers on Friday approved the $6791249000 budget for 2019 as laid out by the Ministry of Finance – an 11.4 per ...

The president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Gabriela Cuevas Barron, has refuted a claim by the National Assembly that she “highly appreciated the ...

National Assembly spokesman lashes out at Rainsy for his attendance at the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva.

Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, according to a former ...

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Mu Sochua said on Thursday that she was “chased” out of the European Parliament in Brussels last ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen hailed his “mission” to the United Nations General Assembly in New York a “success” on Monday as he returned to the Kingdom.

An estimated 300 to 500 protestors are expected to travel to New York from other states in the US to join the protest, according to an organizer.

When the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) boycotted the opening of parliament following the 2013 national election, diplomats from ...

Thirty-eight lawmakers are due to take their seats in the National Assembly on Wednesday to replace those from the previous mandate who had resigned in ...

'I sincerely pledge . . . that I am determined to lead the national executive to ensure the success of all the programmes the Cambodian People's Party [CPP] ...

King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday presided over the National Assembly's opening session to pave the way for the creation of a new government.

All 125 lawmakers today elected the National Assembly's president, two vice presidents, chairmen and vice chairmen of the 10 commissions and gave a vote of ...

As Australia became the latest Western embassy to announce it would not be sending a representative to Wednesday's opening of parliament, Council of ...

King Norodom Sihamoni will preside over its opening session on September 5.

With the prime minister already approved by His Majesty the King, what remains to be done is the formality of convening the 6th mandate of the National ...

King Norodom Sihamoni appoints Hun Sen as PM with the duty of organising a government for approval by the NA.

The ruling CPP yesterday said it will not relinquish a single parliamentary seat to other parties that contested the national election after sweeping all 125.

After winning all 125 seats in the National Assembly, senior officers of the Cambodian People's Party on Thursday defended their victory by taking to ...

BANGKOK - Lawmakers in Cambodia's new parliament will come from only one party - the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of long-time Prime Minister Hun ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng again called on all leaders, civil servants and the national police to avoid partisanship, nepotism and abuse of power after the ruling ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Saturday announced the official preliminary results of the sixth Cambodian national elections. The revised figures ...

After paying a courtesy call on the King and visiting the chairman of the Constitutional Council, caretaker prime minister Hun Sen on Wednesday rescheduled ...

Cambodia's parliament will convene on September 5, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday, after his ruling party claimed victory in what critics say was a ...

A closer look at some of the early figures coming out of the poll results and their significance.

Say Samal made the comments in an op-ed published in a widely read local daily newspaper, Rasmei Kampuchea, owned by his father, Senate President Say ...

Japan sent election monitors to Cambodian elections in 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008, but did not do so in last month's national elections.

The ruling Cambodian People's Party secured 76.78 percent of valid votes nationwide on Sunday, meaning that it will likely gain all 125 seats in the National ...

The National Assembly has turned down a complaint filed by the League of Democracy Party asking it to review the National Election Committee's decision to ...

The only major challenger to Cambodian People's Party was disbanded last year.

BANGKOK -- On July 29, Cambodians will be casting their ballots for what is expected to be the most controversial national election since the country'

Son Chhay has been a fixture in Cambodian politics since 1993. A member of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), he opted ...

The British Embassy rejects the National Assembly's recent statement that UK Ambassador would participate in the monitoring of the national election.

The National Assembly yesterday adopted a draft minimum wage law, which aims to promote decent living standards for the country's 780,000 textile workers.

PHNOM PENH, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's National Assembly on Thursday adopted a draft law on minimum wage, which was designed to improve living ...

Two relatively new political parties have registered a majority of women candidates for the upcoming general election.

The National Assembly yesterday approved a draft law adopting the policies of the Asian Forest Cooperation Organisation, meaning that the Kingdom could ...

A list of CPP candidates obtained yesterday shows the ruling Cambodia People's Party has nominated several high-ranking military and police officials for seats ...

A Cambodian delegation comprising a Member of the National Assembly, representatives from two political parties, and a civil society member paid a visit to ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- With the dissolution of the largest opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) heading into general elections, Western ...

The secretary-general of the National Assembly yesterday outlined the achievements and challenges of the legislative body during a press conference in Phnom ...

The National Assembly yesterday elected two senators from the royalist Funcinpec party to fill in the new 62-seat Senate that is due to convene its first session at ...

Cambodia's National Assembly, or the lower house, on Monday elected two royalist Funcinpec party members, Chea Chantevy and Suon Mean, to fill vacant ...

The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly has picked two candidates to fill vacant positions in the Senate, with a Funcinpec spokesman saying on ...

Former Takeo provincial governor Lay Vannak might be involved in the death of a National Assembly staffer and member of the CPP's youth group, according to ...

The National Election Committee announced yesterday that the number of National Assembly seats for the upcoming national election will increase by two, ...

Two opposition lawmakers beaten up outside the National Assembly in 2015 will have their appeal heard this Friday – nearly two years after the three ...

The National Assembly unanimously passed amendments to the Constitution and Criminal Code Wednesday that will impose restrictions on political rights and ...

The National Assembly voted to ratify a lawmaker from the royalist Funcipec Party as its First Vice President. On Friday You Hokry replaced Kem Sokha, who had ...

Following the redistribution of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party's seats in parliament, 55 new lawmakers entered the National Assembly this ...

Only two women are among the National Assembly's 55 new lawmakers, leaving the already heavily male body even more bereft of female representation ...

Forty-four unelected lawmakers from three parties that won less than a combined 5 percent of the vote in the 2013 elections took their seats in the National ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has approved new candidates to fill National Assembly seats left vacant by the dissolution of the opposition, drastically ...

The National Assembly, with only ruling party lawmakers in attendance, voted on Friday to pass the national budget for 2018 and to add two additional positions ...

Four amendments to election laws passed unopposed through the National Assembly today, paving the way for the CNRP's seats throughout the country to be ...

A ruling party proposal to rewrite the National Assembly's internal regulations to scrap Cambodia National Rescue Party acting president's Kem Sokha's title of ...

Opposition lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea were viciously beaten and left seriously injured yesterday morning as a protest outside the National ...