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The Vietnamese National Assembly will closely cooperate with the National Assembly and Senate of Cambodia to further expand and improve the efficiency of ...

Former Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong has resigned as a member of the National Assembly to stand for the chairmanship of the Phnom Penh Municipal ...

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Exiled politicians accused of incitement to commit felony and plotting treason after announcing plans to return.

The Meddling Kingdom's threat to democracy . Spying on voters is an important tool of Beijing's foreign policy as elections loom across the region.

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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 ...

A Philippine National Defence delegation on a four-day visit to the Kingdom.

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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 Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday heard testimony from 10 former teachers, including former National Election Committee member Rong Chhun, ...

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Interior Minister says the progress of issuing identification cards for citizens has been slow due to the country's political situation.

The National Election Committee (NEC) announced on Thursday that it is inviting applications from political parties and local and international observers to ...

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

The National Election Committee (NEC) has fined three former opposition party activists in Battambang province for their role in the “clean finger” opposition ...

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

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 following "anti-democratic" actions ahead of an election last month.

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

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 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 ...

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (CEC) lauded the election process in Cambodia, which it found being open, free, and transparent.

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 ...

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

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 National Election Committee started to review and verify the election results from the provinces on Saturday, August 4. The primary results will be ...

THE National Election Committee yesterday said that it has not received any formal complaints from political parties claiming that the national election was not ...

A group of European populist and nationalist politicians descended upon Cambodia last weekend to observe national elections - which they lauded with ...

The NEC responds to accusations of news presenter speaking Vietnamese.

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

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

The U.S. said it was considering imposing visa restrictions on further Cambodian officials in response to the country's one-sided election on Sunday, which were ...

Cambodians went to the polls on Sunday for their sixth general election to fill 125 lawmaker seats.

CAMBODIA'S National Election Committee website has been repeatedly down on Saturday as people prepare to head to the polls to vote in the country's latest ...

The Cambodian government has ordered internet *service* providers (ISPs) to block the websites of 15 news websites of independent outlets including Voice of ...

A VOA Khmer investigation in April found evidence of large-scale troop movements in late 2017 from the highly militarized provinces of Oddar Meanchey and ...

Cambodian People's Party (CPP) lawyers have filed a complaint with the National Election Committee (NEC) against a lawyer who posted a video on Facebook ...

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 ...

A National Election Committee (NEC) official on Monday said the number of international observers signed up to monitor the July 29 polls is steadily increasing.

For Cambodia's prime minister of more than three decades, a blossoming alliance with China means no Western powers questioning his increasingly ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) increased the estimate from a previous figure of about 50000, saying the observers were fairly evenly split between civil ...

Cambodia's general election on July 29 has become a proxy theater for competition between China and Japan as the two vie for influence in the Southeast ...

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 ...

Nearly 70,000 security personnel will be deployed at all 22,967 polling stations during Cambodia's general election, a National Election Committee (NEC) ...

An American company says it found evidence that a Chinese group has attacked computers belonging to Cambodian government agencies, opposition leaders ...

The National Election Committee said that indelible ink to be used in the election on July 29 cannot be washed off after its test.

The National Election Committee published a website that allows Cambodia's eight million voters to find polling stations on Google Map on Friday, July 13.

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

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

The EU has been slow to react to the collapse of Cambodian democracy - but if it ever chooses to use it, Brussels has substantial influence and leverage over ...

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.

Opposition party and civil society leaders spoke out on Tuesday against a move by the National Election Committee (NEC) that prohibits supporters of any party ...

Cyberattackers have been caught hacking key Cambodian government institutions in what is strongly believed to be a coordinated Chinese government attack ...

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

A National Election Committee (NEC) official on Sunday dismissed the lack of US and EU observers as unimportant for the July 29 national elections, as at least ...

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 ...

Cambodian telecom companies are sending text messages urging the public to vote in the July 29 elections, at the behest of the government.

Cambodia's ruling party, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) threatened legal action against a campaign started by opposition members which called for voters ...

Drenched in sweat and more than an hour into a speech urging 16000 garment factory workers to vote for the ruling party, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodi.

The Ministry of Labour instructed factories and enterprises in the Kingdom to give workers three days off in order to cast their ballots in the July 29 national ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) called on factories and other enterprises to allow workers to go to the polls and vote in the July 29 national elections, ...

The party of slain activist Kem Ley vows to win election.

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

New code of conduct for journalists forbids news that leads to 'loss of confidence' in the election.

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) on Tuesday drew random numbers for political party positions on election ballots, with the ruling party taking the ...

The national election in July is going to be dominated by the presence of male heads of parties. However, one woman will be among a handful of women ...

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 ...

The parties called on the country's election body, the National Election Committee, to take legal action against those calling for an election boycott.

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 ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has previously said that not voting in the election was tantamount to treason.

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday hailed the prospect of multi-party democracy with the registration of 20 parties for a July ...

Only four political parties have now officially registered with Cambodia's National Election Committee to contest elections scheduled for July, with government ...

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday hailed the prospect of multi-party democracy with the registration of 20 parties for a July general ...

On April 30, the National Election Committee announced it was opening registration for parties who wished to contest the July 29 vote.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday slammed a call by a former leader of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for ...

Rhona Smith said the government must immediately release the detained opposition leaders and lift a ban on the opposition taking part in the July 29 general ...

PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) - Cambodia began registering political parties on Monday (April 30) for a July general election which long-serving Prime Minister ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The government of Japan will provide 800,000,000 yen, or approximately $7 million, to the National Election Committee (NEC) for the general election in July.

The European Union on Tuesday said it is suspending financial assistance to Cambodia's National Election Committee, citing the dissolution of the main ...

The US government responded to the Supreme Court's dissolution of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party on Thursday by announcing it would cut ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said the 2018 national election result does not require international ...

Cambodia last went to the polls in 2013 amid evidence of widespread voter fraud, intimidation, and political violence.

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

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.