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Phanom Penh (Phnom Penh Post) - Prime Minister Hun Sen has told his lawyers to prepare a lawsuit to demand $2 million compensation from property seized ...

Xenophobia in Cambodia is a serious issue which should not be ignored or taken lightly. One example was a violent riot against Thai embassy and Thai ...

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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.

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A senior former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) official has said he believed Prime Minister Hun Sen would win the wager on the legal status of party ...

Cambodian Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh will meet with his Thai counterpart Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon this week to discuss cooperation along their border, ...

Senior government officials on Wednesday rejected claims in a report by Hanoi-based daily, Viet Nam News (VNS), that quotes a senior Vietnamese official as ...

A government statement on Tuesday said legal action would be taken against former opposition leader Sam Rainsy should the Supreme Court request it, if he ...

The permanent committee of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) held a meeting in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the US on ...

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen is threatening to kill opposition politicians without a European Union deal.

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Wednesday began a five-day visit to Ho Chi Minh City, on which border issues and the continued cooperation between ...

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Large celebrations set to take place in Cambodian capital to mark 40th anniversary of 'Victory Over Genocide Day'.

There has been an ebb and flow in Cambodia's relations with Vietnam, 40 years after Vietnamese troops helped 'liberate' the country from the yoke of the ...

A facebook post over the weekend claimed Cambodia National Rescue Party acting president Sam Rainsy will return to Cambodia “before Khmer New Year” ...

Senior Cambodian People's Party (CPP) officials claimed on Wednesday that former opposition leader Sam Rainsy recently sent a “secret” message to Prime ...

Cambodian Prime Minister, Hun Sen's authoritarian crackdown has rendered his critics defenceless. His last major blow to the opposition was the dissolution of ...

The legislation that could allow a five-year ban on political activity by top opposition politicians to be lifted.

This article is accompanied by the mini-documentary "Psychological warfare and resistance, 'Made in Cambodia' (in three acts and an epilogue)". Click here to ...

Cambodia and Vietnam vowed to enhance their cooperation on issues of security and affirmed that neither country will allow armed forces of another nation to ...

Cambodia and Vietnam have largely completed border demarcation in Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces at locations agreed by the two parties. But disputed ...

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha on Friday mourned the death this week of a party member in his first public statement after being moved from prison ...

Cambodia has agreed to resume a search effort with the United States for the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday, ...

The Cambodian government should immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for peacefully exercising their fundamental rights.

Release follows criticism of Hun Sen government after one-sided election.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's new Parliament met for the first time on Wednesday (Sept 5), launching an era of one-party rule after an uncontested election ...

Kem Sokha could have led the opposition to victory in Cambodia but a year after his arrest, remains in jail.

Cambodia eases pressure by releasing political prisoners. Facing international condemnation over human rights and a flawed election Hun Sen shows his ...

When a judge ordered Meach Sovannara to spend 20 years in a notorious Cambodian prison, some feared the Long Beach resident had been handed a death ...

A former Cambodian opposition lawmaker who has been a strong critic of the government's handling of demarcating the border with neighbouring Vietnam has ...

Cambodia opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail on Wednesday after almost a year in jail on treason charges that critics say were trumped up by ...

Cambodian political commentator Kim Sok was released from prison on Friday morning after serving an 18-month jail term for “defamation” and “incitement to ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at an election boycott by the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party ...

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

It's been 25 years since the UN tried to bring democracy to war-ravaged Cambodia. Is that dream dead?

Five former members of Cambodia's outlawed opposition party were found guilty and fined $2500 each on Thursday for calling for a boycott of Sunday's general ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's armed forces put on a show of power on Wednesday, displaying anti-riot gear and assault rifles at a sports stadium in the ...

Author: Vannarith Chheang, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Cambodia's upcoming general election on 29 July looks set to be its most controversial since its first.

Prime Minister Hun Sen told an American filmmaker he is a patriot who resists any foreign influences, despite allegations to the contrary from Cambodia's ...

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

PARIS (Reuters) - Cambodians must show Prime Minister Hun Sen that his time is up by boycotting “fake” elections this month, and Western powers need to ...

But in a village where Cambodians and ethnic Vietnamese live together peacefully, traditional distrust surfaces in polls.

My regret is the lateness of land reform. And solving land disputes…. [W]e should have given land titles to the people more speedily, but we delayed for 10 years ...

Delivering a campaign speech from his home via Facebook Live on Thursday, caretaker Prime Minister Hun Sen said his Cambodian People's Party (CPP) had ...

With governments in Cambodia's export markets threatening sanctions as Phnom Penh backslides on democratic reforms, garment workers worry about losing ...

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 ...

Cambodia is headed for national elections on 29 July in which, although there are 20 parties contending, there is only one possible victor: the ruling Cambodian ...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the five-year prison sentence handed to former Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy for his ...

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 ...

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has spent millions of U.S. dollars of the national budget on handouts to garment workers at rallies, a government ...

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

GARMENT workers in Cambodia are facing pressure from their bosses to vote in the upcoming July general election amid calls to boycott the one-sided contest ...

Has Hun Sen's embrace of Beijing loosened the CPP's relationship with Vietnam?

Phnom Penh, Cambodia The course of Sok Eysan's life was set one day in 1979 as he wandered the streets of the Cambodian capital, desperate and alone.

Five lawmakers seeking to visit 15 colleagues were rebuffed by prison official, who cites their ex-lawmaker status.

Cambodia's Vireak Chey National Park, which straddles Stung Treng and Rattanakiri provinces, is under siege from “hundreds of Vietnamese” illegally crossing ...

CAMBODIA is no stranger to political turmoil and autocratic rule. And in the lead up to the July 29 general election, these old tropes are once again coming to the ...

A court in Cambodia has summoned former president of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy as a suspect in a ...

Keo Samoeun has helped construct dozens of buildings throughout Phnom Penh. In the past, he repaired villas damaged during the Khmer Rouge era and he is ...

With elections approaching, Hun Sen is casting the United States as the boogeyman in a widening crackdown on democratic institutions.

Author: Nicole Jenne, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In March 2018, Cambodia and Thailand announced plans for several joint initiatives relating to ...

In its modern guise (from 1996 onwards), the tensions between both ASEAN countries relate to an omnipresent border issue that encompasses both, land and ...

Cambodia and Thailand look set to cooperate to bring "foreign fugitives" to justice. By doing so, they stand accused of illegal behaviour themselves.

Floating villages spread across the surface of the Mekong River's waterways, playing host to ethnic Vietnamese whose status in Cambodian society is ...

A COUNTRY boy, Hun Sen gets up early and works hard. He is said to spend hours every morning on his treadmill, to counter the ravages of his earlier years as ...

Hundreds of Cambodian and Chinese soldiers began a 15-day joint military exercise in central Cambodia this week, involving live-fire rocket launches from ...

Sam Rainsy might face a legal action over a video suggesting to cede Cambodia's northeast provinces to Vietnam's Montagnards.

A fourth national Senate election campaign is in full swing in Cambodia, with candidates fanning out to rural areas to drum up support among commune ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday opened a $2 million tender to help clear unexploded bombs in Cambodia weeks after the ...

The Supreme Court of Cambodia has ruled to dissolve the country's main opposition, all but guaranteeing the ruling party's victory in next year's national ...

Cambodia's Supreme Court should resist government pressure to rule on dissolving the country's main opposition party, Human Rights Watch said today.

The leader of Cambodia's political opposition sits in solitary confinement in Correctional Center 3, a maximum-security prison near the Vietnamese border.

Almost half of Cambodia's opposition lawmakers have left the country or are in jail, including most of its leadership, as proceedings to dissolve the party move ...

Mu Sochua, the deputy leader of Cambodia's main opposition party, says her country's government is waging “psychological warfare” on its opponents in an ...

Weeks of attacks have taken a toll on NGOs and the media, as the U.S. retreats from promoting human rights.

THE newsroom of the Cambodia Daily is littered with piles of proofs, pens without lids, an empty bottle of Tabasco sauce, a cat frolicking under the strip ...

Cambodia's opposition party says the Government has crossed a red line by arresting its leader over an alleged CIA-backed plot and is calling on Australia to ...

The rise of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) ahead of a general election next year is being watched closely by neighbouring Vietnam.

Cambodia's long-standing fear of Vietnam can sometimes appear to be borderline irrational and allegations of land grabbing, war-mongering, even ...

In the closing months of 2016, all of Southeast Asia seemed to be pivoting toward China. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was hailed as a “visionary ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he supports an effort by the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments to end the simmering border dispute.

Cambodia and Vietnam will invite international border experts to help settle ongoing boundary disputes between the two countries, an official said on Monday.

With elections looming, Cambodia's battered opposition has once again fixed its crosshairs on the country's ethnic Vietnamese.

Two insightful articles have appeared in recent months renewing the debate about anti-Vietnamese sentiment in Cambodia. On September 6, Tim Frewer ...

Prominent opposition lawmaker Um Sam An was arrested late Sunday in Siem Reap province for comments he made about the border with Vietnam, ...

UPDATED at 10:55 a.m. EST on 2015-11-05. A Cambodian government official in charge of border affairs accused Vietnam on Tuesday of trying to grab land in ...

Author: Vannarith Chheang, Cambodian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS) To strengthen national unity and identity, Cambodian leaders have for generations.

Cambodia and Vietnam on Thursday wrapped up a three-day meeting to discuss tensions over their disputed border, with the two sides agreeing to complete ...

Several activists from Cambodia were injured when a group of villagers from Vietnam attacked them with sticks while they inspected an area of the border ...

History doesn't appear to support claims by the Cambodian opposition to the Vietnamese island of Phu Quoc.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - It took just one word to fire up the mob that beat Tran Van Chien to death after a minor road accident in the Cambodian capital, ...

Racially charged slogans are sometimes mixed with opposition calls for more democracy and higher wages.

Cambodia, a nation once traumatised by the 'Killing Fields' of the Pol Pot regime in the 1970s, has come a long way since then in rebuilding the nation from year ...

Kevin Ponniah: July's elections once again highlighted the discrimination that ethnic Vietnamese people born in Cambodia so often encounter.