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Only days after the UN World Press Freedom Day highlighted the plight of two journalists jailed for seven years on trumped-up charges of breaching Myanmar's ...

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Words hurt: time for Asean leaders to speak up on SCS Government officials and heads-of-state in Asean appears to have a collective aversion to speaking up ...

Cambodian leader knows if long-detained opposition leader is convicted on bogus treason charges that crippling Western sanctions will quickly follow.

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Sam Rainsy, the “acting president” of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, was on Thursday sentenced to a total of eight years in ...

Aung San Suu Kyi wants cooperation with China and says backtracking on Myitsone would be a blow to Myanmar's reputation. However, intense local and ...

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Phnom Penh International Airport in Cambodia on April 29. Photo: Reuters. Myanmar State Counsellor.

Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday offered a definition of “patriotism”, claiming the term should not be applied to people who “shout” from abroad but ...

Thailand is handing over a diesel-engine locomotive to Cambodia for cross-border railway which will reopen on April 22 after having been closed down for the ...

Vietnamese border guards and police officers have just captured two locals for purportedly smuggling illegal drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam. Police officers ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has raised concerns with Laos over the Pak Lay hydropower dam on the Mekong River. While Thailand, Cambodia and ...

Taipei – Visitors from Cambodia who attempt to bring pork products into Taiwan will be fined NT$200,000 (US$6,490), the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health ...

Paris – Cambodia reported a first outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in backyard pigs near the Vietnam border, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal ...

Cambodia plans to step up cross-border trade activities and has begun talks with neighbouring countries to intensify trade ties, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has set April 22 as the date for “acting president” of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy to appear for a ...

Sam Rainsy will face “trenches equipped with machine guns” at the border, Hun Sen warns.

Situated in the center of Cambodia is the Tonlé Sap lake, translated as the “Great Lake.” Its length reaches 250 km, spanning several provinces and cities.

Tokyo is fighting a losing battle for Hun Sen's support, and selling its own legacy in the democratization of Cambodia short.

African swine fever has spread to parts of Vietnam that border Cambodia's Ratanakkiri and Kratie provinces, a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and billionaire tycoon Kith Meng may no longer see eye-to-eye on the country's political and economic direction.

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

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.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has spent more than 18 month in detention as of Sunday, with other opposition leaders decrying his case as politically ...

Cambodia's economic growth trajectory is facing uncertainty and challenges amid mounting international pressure, in particular the suspension of status under ...

Svay Rieng provincial court charges four Vietnamese with possessing and trafficking about half a kilo of meth.

Cambodia will host the 14th General Border Committee Meeting, which mainly focuses on security along the border with Thailand, on Wednesday and Thursday ...

Cambodia renewed calls on Monday for the arrest of veteran opposition chief Sam Rainsy as it faces the threat of sanctions from the European Union, its biggest ...

In an interview with Vietnam News, General Pham Van Tra, who led Vietnamese forces into Cambodia in 1978, recalls the conflict from a perspective seldom ...

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

Last week, a high-ranking Vietnamese defense delegation paid a visit to Cambodia. Though the engagement was just one of several between the two sides, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Prime Minister Hun Sen returned to the Kingdom on Saturday (Dec.8) after paying an official visit to Vietnam.

The Prime Minister assured Vietnam that he would not allow a foreign military base to be established in the Kingdom during his meeting with Vietnamese Prime ...

CNRP leader Kem Sokha was released from prison in September after spending more than a year in jail on treason charges.

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 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) has cracked down on more than 4,000 transnational crimes along the Kingdom's land borders with neighbouring ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen last week spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. His presence at this year was highly strategic ...

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 ...

Cambodia has released 14 members of the country's dissolved opposition party in the wake of a controversial election that extended Prime Minister Hun Sen's ...

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

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

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.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen addresses the politically divisive issue of his historic links with the Communist Party of Vietnam by ...

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

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 ...

With the main opposition party dissolved, the three million people across Cambodia who voted for change in last year's commune elections find themselves ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Since last week, fears have spread about a potential deal between Thailand and Cambodia on dealing with 'foreign fugitives' that could affect the safety of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodia's highest court on Thursday outlawed the country's main opposition party and banned its MPs from politics, in a move that critics say will deliver a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

As Prime Minister Hun Sen continues a streak of crackdowns and power plays aimed at weakening Cambodia's main opposition party, the country's precarious ...

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, ...

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.