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In the year since Senator John McCain's death, his shadow continues to loom over President Trump. McCain continues to represent the best of the Republican ...

Even SLPP leader Mahinda Rajapaksa unhappy about Sirisena's appeal for a Supreme Court opinion. Premadasa now pushing openly for nomination, but ...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Friday announced that acting President Sam Rainsy and several other high-ranking party officials ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa to announce former Defence Secretary's name at SLPP convention today. Says talks with President Maithripala Sirisena “very successful”.

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W. Patrick Murphy appears with former U.S. Ambassador William Heidt at a press conference in Phnom Penh in 2017. Photo via Twitter. W. Patrick Murphy, a ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Prak Sokhonn, held a bilateral meeting with Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the ...

The National Election Committee says about 85% of all citizens eligible to vote have been registered on the voter list.

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Bangkok, July 26, 2019 -- Cambodia should drop incitement charges against two local journalists and stop using legal threats to intimidate and harass reporters, ...

The National Election Committee says it is committed to strongly follow the Kingdom's laws when carrying out electoral reforms.

The National Election Committee (NEC) released its first list of voters on Thursday for the 2022 communal elections and the national elections in 2023. The list is ...

The Nigeria elections in 2019 that brought President Muhammadu Buhari back into office for a second term were marred by political violence, some of it by ...

The Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won 4034 of 4114 seats in this year's third mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections, while the ...

PHNOM PENH, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen won almost all of the seats in local ...

The NEC to announce preliminary results of the council elections today.

PHNOM PENH, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen won a landslide victory in local ...

The CPP garners most of the votes on Sunday in the municipal, provincial and district council elections.

PHNOM PENH, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The third mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections kicked off in Cambodia on Sunday after an ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) announced on Friday, May 24, that campaigning for the third elections on the municipal, provincial and district levels w ...

Election campaigning for the upcoming third-mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections is due to end this Friday, while the ruling ...

Cambodia's National Election Committee says campaigns for the May 26 elections of city and provincial councillors were proceeding without irregularities.

The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced that the upcoming third mandate municipal, provincial, town and district council elections will be held on ...

Some 50,000 paper ballots will be issued for the 3rd Mandate Council Elections that will be held on May 26, said National Election Committee (NEC) ...

More than a month after Thailand held its first national elections in seven years, official results have been released by the country's Election Commission, ...

The five former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) members who faced legal action for taking part in last year's “Clean Finger” campaign are among the ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has given its approval to political parties that are registered for the sub-national elections to campaign from May 17- 24.

Doug Ericksen was criticised for previous trips to Cambodia, including one to monitor the July 2019 elections the White House said were 'neither free nor fair'

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A senior National Election Committee (NEC) official said on Friday that there is a distinct lack of interest in the third mandate council elections, which are due to ...

(New York) – Thailand's military government has failed to create conditions for a free and fair national election on March 24, 2019, Human Rights Watch said.

On the night of Jan.

The National Election Committee yesterday said that seven political parties have registered to contest May's sub-national election. In a statement, the NEC said ...

US and EU are calling for the opposition leader's release after 18 months in detention but it's not clear yet the government is listening.

With a sub-national election approaching, the ruling CPP has called on its members to work hand-in-hand to promote its platforms. In a letter dated Friday and ...

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 ...

Cambodia is scheduled to hold the third election for 4,114 municipal, provincial and district councilors on May 26, the National Election Committee (NEC) said ...

The National Election Committee yesterday called on political parties and election officials to ensure fairness in the upcoming sub-national council election.

The number of district, town, provincial and municipal council members will increase to 819 when elections are called for their third mandate on May 26, said a ...

The ruling party won a landslide victory in polls that garnered both criticism and praise internationally, while the EU began the process of withdrawing access to ...

During the two previous cycles of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Cambodia accepted 301 recommendations out of 343, but has largely failed to ...

The National Election Committee yesterday commenced the 18-day voter registration period to update the country's voter list. Nuth Sokhom, an NEC official, said ...

(New York) – Cambodian authorities should immediately quash the politically motivated convictions of five human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) is to update its new voter registration list and include more than 40,0000 new voters. NEC spokesperson Hang Puthea ...

State Sen. Doug Ericksen should not be praising July's flawed elections in Cambodia, which the White House and others have condemned as undemocratic.

Local and international observers have until the end of December to register, NEC says.

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 ...

The Cambodian People's Party gained all 125 seats in parliament. The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party had been dissolved last year.

The U.S. announced new visa restrictions against Cambodian officials responsible for “anti-democratic” actions taken in the run-up to the country's election last ...

Cambodia's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won all 125 parliamentary seats in a national election in July, electoral authorities said on Wednesday as ...

The official election results are scheduled to be announced today since the National Election Committee and the Constitutional Council received no complaints ...

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

The National Election Committee (NEC) announced the national election preliminary results on Saturday, August 10. The ruling Cambodian People's Party ...

Prime minister Hun Sen wants it both ways: He wants to claim a democratic mantle but doesn't want to deal with the pesky competition that comes with a ...

Two minor political parties have refused to accept the results of the Kingdom's July 29 national elections. One has filed a complaint with the Constitutional ...

For over nine months, we had known who would win last weekend's general election in Cambodia. In November, the country's largest opposition party, the ...

I told Mr. Prak Sokhonn that the results were disappointing in many ways as many of the ballots were judged invalid, although Japan had given its support to ...

The NEC says it has not and will not recognise any counts made by political parties for the national election.

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC), the top electoral body, acknowledged Monday that as many as nine percent of ballots cast in the weekend's ...

In Cambodia's elections this past weekend, Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) reportedly won all 125 of the seats contested in elections that w…

Representatives of election observers from six countries and leaders of the National Election Committee (NEC) claimed that Sunday's national elections were ...

The authoritarian prime minister Hun Sen's party won the election Sunday. But the second-largest number of votes went to no one at all.

Bangkok, July 30, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the Cambodian government's move to block news websites ahead of ...

PHNOM PENH, July 26 (Xinhua) -- About 306 international observers from over 40 countries will monitor Cambodia's general election on July 29, a spokesman ...

Cambodia's fundamentally flawed national elections on July 29, 2018, deny the Cambodian people their internationally protected right to choose their ...

A Cambodian government official on Thursday said as many as 220 observers from 52 countries would monitor Sunday's general elections, widely expected to ...

Cambodia's upcoming general election on July 29 looks set to be its most controversial since its first national election in 1993.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Three of the groups approved to monitor Cambodia's election have close ties to Prime Minister Hun Sen, one headed by his son and ...

Everyone in Phnom Penh remembers the last general elections. The excitement, the mass rallies, the protests, the promises of change and the frenetic activity ...

Japan has remained steadfast in its support of the upcoming Cambodian general election on 29 July amid growing pressure by its citizens, civil society ...

Technically, Cambodia isn't a one-party state. But Prime Minister Hun Sen's party is the only one most voters in the July 29 vote will have heard of.

A Chinese hacking group has been targeting opposition MPs, political institutions, non-governmental groups and media in Cambodia in the run-up to the ...

PHNOM PENH, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian political parties launched a three-week campaign on Saturday for the July 29 general election. Twenty political ...

In many countries, political incumbents feel threatened by get-out-the-vote efforts. Not so in Cambodia, where the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) faces ...

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) on Wednesday said 50000 observers, including some from China, Myanmar and Singapore, will monitor a ...

Yang Saing Koma has seen his party co-founder assassinated, his country's biggest opposition party systematically dismantled and the free press obliterated in ...

Hong Kong, June 4, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned today proposed restrictions on news coverage of upcoming elections in Cambodia ...

A new list of controversial rules for journalists covering Cambodia's upcoming elections, including a warning that the reporters should not ask detailed questions ...

The Cambodian people are being asked to boycott the election. To do so would be a mistake.

PHNOM PENH, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) had officially recognized all of the 20 political parties that registered to ...

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen is in breach of the country's electoral laws by urging people to vote for him in an upcoming general ballot, election ...

Twenty political parties have so far registered to contest in Cambodia's upcoming general election, up from eight in the last election five years ago, National ...

Cambodia began registering political parties on Monday for a July general election likely to extend the 33-year-old rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen after the ...

The National Election Committee on Monday criticised those urging voters or monitors to stay away from the July 29 national election, a thinly veiled reference to ...

Cambodia's national election body has invited international observers to monitor the July general election, widely expected to be a landslide victory for the ruling ...

Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party swept Senate elections, winning every seat in the latest signal of Cambodia's faltering democracy.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's ruling party said on Sunday it had won every seat up for election on the Senate in a ballot held after thousands of ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Hun Sen is poised to sweep a Senate election at the weekend, helping to consolidate ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Japan donated over 10,000 ballot boxes for Cambodia's 2018 election on Wednesday, the first international aid for the vote after ...

Four senators will be selected by the CPP-controlled parliament, while the remainder will be chosen by a vote of commune councilors.

China will donate equipment to assist in Cambodia's elections next year, including computers and ballot boxes, according to Cambodia's top electoral body, ...

The European Union in Cambodia on Tuesday said it was suspending planned funding of Cambodia's national election body.The United States last month said ...

Cambodia's long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said the 2018 national election result does not require international recognition to be valid -- the ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen set the date for next year's national election as July 29, officially backtracking on a deal his ruling CPP made with the opposition in 2014 ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) said the CPP had secured 1156 seats out of a possible 1646 and more than 3.5 million votes.

(New York) – Local elections in Cambodia on June 4, 2017, took place in a threatening environment hostile to free speech and genuine political participation, ...

Voters in Cambodia vote in local polls seen as a test for leadership in advance of general election next year.

The new NEC is comprised of nine members in all, four each selected by the ruling party and opposition and a final member agreed upon by both.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A deadlock over Cambodia's disputed election hardened on Monday as the opposition rejected official results confirming a victory for ...

(New York) – Cambodia's electoral process is marred by systematic problems that prevent national elections scheduled for July 28, 2013, from being free and ...