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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 ...

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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) ...

The National Election Committee yesterday said that three out of seven political parties registered for the sub-national elections will kick off their campaigns on ...

Some 50000 paper ballots will be issued for the 3rd Mandate Council Elections that will be held on May 26, said National Election Committee (NEC) ...

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 MEDIA landscape in Cambodia has dramatically changed over the past two years. Today there is a shortage of independent, impartial, and rigorous news ...

IN 2018 and early 2019, media freedom and the right to free expression came under sustained pressure in the Kingdom of Cambodia. In the past year, the Royal ...

Hong Kong – Drought in South-east Asia may become even more frequent and intense if countries do not take steps to reduce its impact, according to a joint ...

PHNOM PENH, April 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - "The rule of law and human rights are two sides of the same principle: the freedom to live in dignity" (United ...

Phnom Penh Municipal court on Monday heard two cases against Sam Rainsy, “acting president” of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue ...

A former local official with Cambodia's banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has fled his home in Tboung Khmum province following the ...

Thousands of supporters of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Saturday gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju ...

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.

Treuy Koh commune, Kampot — Cambodia's ruling party is preparing for local elections to be held in May, but few Cambodians appear to be paying much ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party now utterly dominate Cambodia, after the CPP won control of the entire lower house of parliament in ...

Cambodia's exiled acting opposition chief Sam Rainsy has called on the public to draw inspiration from a recent leadership change in Algeria and oust the ...

With David Beavers and Daniel Lippman. WASHINGTON STATE SENATOR WILL LOBBY FOR CAMBODIA: Doug Ericksen, a sitting Washington state senator, ...

The National Assembly of Cambodia on Monday began its second plenary session of the sixth legislature after a three-month recess. Some 113 lawmakers of ...

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 ...

Five former senior officials from Cambodia's banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) applied for political rehabilitation from the government ...

Phnom Penh – Cambodia on Thursday launched a 5-year national strategy for combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (2019-2023), said a ...

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.

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said that opposition officials who were banned from politics ahead of last year's election have one month to seek a royal ...

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.

Thailand's newly appointed army chief Apirat Kongsompong visited Cambodia this week to discuss border security issues and expanding military ties. Apirat, an ...

The 41st Central Committee meeting of Cambodia's ruling party ended on Thursday with Prime Minister Hun Sen's eldest son, Hun Manet, joining the powerful ...

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 ...

A move by Cambodia's single-party parliament to allow banned politicians to potentially return to politics has further stoked divisions in the country's fractured ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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…

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.

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 ...

A group of international observers said yesterday that the national election went smoothly with many Cambodians going to vote.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Interior Minister said Cambodians who were found to have taken part in the campaign would be fined up to 20 million riels (about $5000).

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

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 ...

Phnom Penh – Cambodia's election commission on Tuesday described calls to boycott a controversial election on Jul 29 as a “crime” and said authorities were ...

Agents working for Cambodia's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) are threatening to end public services for indigenous residents of Mondulkiri province ...

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.

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 ...

PHNOM PENH -- With Cambodia's national elections fast approaching, garment workers who had largely backed the opposition in the last poll say they are.

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 ...

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 Cambodia ...

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.

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 ...

Five political parties have so far successfully registered for the election, while a further 15 are having their applications reviewed.

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 ...

A third political party registers its candidates for the election in July.

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

The National Election Committee (NEC) met with stakeholders yesterday to discuss preparations for the upcoming national elections in July, fielding ...

US cut support of National Election Committee last month after dissolution of opposition party, arrest of its leader; since then, global pressure has mounted on ...

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 ...

(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.

Cambodia's opposition rejects the result of Sunday's election due to "serious irregularities", as Hun Sen claims victory with a reduced majority.