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

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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 ...

Miss USA has taken to Instagram to apologize for her comment after appearing to mock two fellow contestants' lack of English. Sarah Rose Summers, who is ...

During the two previous cycles of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Cambodia accepted 301 recommendations out of 343, but has largely failed 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 Prime Minister Hun Sen will step down after 34 years in power, or his main political rival for almost two decades, Sam Rainsy, will return to the ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia has agreed to resume a search effort with the United States for the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the ...

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

Hundreds of supporters of the leader of Cambodia's main opposition party Kem Sokha gathered outside his house on Monday after he was released on bail after ...

Parliament will reconvene on Thursday for the formality of voting Hun Sen back in as prime minister, extending his 33-year rule over the country by another 5 ...

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 ...

An outspoken Cambodian opposition lawmaker was pardoned by royal decree and released on Saturday, the first member of a now-dissolved political party to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he planned to request royal pardons for 12 former members of dissolved CNRP in the upcoming national holidays. Speaking to ...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail on appeal on Wednesday (Aug 22), despite a string of high-profile figures being ...

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 ...

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

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

SA'ANG, Cambodia -- Closing in on a landslide victory, Cambodia's ruling party remains desperate to emerge from Sunday's polls as legitimate.It has em.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

But critics say the donations from the national budget constitute 'vote buying' and 'corruption.'

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

Sam Rainsy had suggested a letter from the king endorsing an upcoming election was 'legally worthless.'

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 ...

Fears that Cambodia's new lese majeste law would be used by the government as a weapon against political opponents appears to have come to fruition with ...

PHNOM PENH — The United States has been busy in Cambodia these past few months, if Hun Sen's government is to be believed. Between trying to overthrow ...

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

The Supreme Court yesterday delayed a hearing on fake treaty against former opposition leader Sam Rainsy due to the absence of the defence lawyer.

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

Cambodian people in Kandai province queue to make their votes during the senate election on February 25 (Source: Xinhua/VNA). Phnom Penh (VNA) - The ...

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

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 ...

PHNOM PENH: Former Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha is to remain in jail while awaiting his trial after the Appeal Court on Tuesday (Mar 27) ...

As global pressure steadily mounts on Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen over his crackdown on the opposition, independent media, nongovernmental ...

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 ...

UN Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith raised the forced dissolution of the CNRP and the redistribution of its legislative seats, as well as the government's frequent ...

Cross the land border from Thailand into Cambodia and what strikes you first are the casinos. By one reading, they're a sign of economic renewal, but their ...

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

Bilateral relations between Cambodia and Australia are longstanding and mutually beneficial. And so is the relationship between Australia and Asean.

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 ...

The Supreme Court today upheld the two-and-a-half year prison sentence of former Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Um Sam An over Facebook ...

Dear Sir,. On his Facebook page, Sam Rainsy wrote, on 5 February 2018, Hun Sen ceded Koh Tral to Vietnam in 1982. It is pure lie. To rewrite history is typical ...

A National Police report on border issues found incursions by Thailand – many in the form of surveillance drones flown into Cambodia airspace – were the most ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen remains unfazed by the threat of Western sanctions for his crackdown on the political opposition.

With its promised electoral showdown between the long-ruling Cambodian People's Party and the insurgent Cambodia National Rescue Party, 2018 would have ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, removing the only existing electoral threat to Prime Minister Hun Sen's ...

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.

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

A closer look at the implications of the ongoing government crackdown in the Southeast Asian state ahead of upcoming polls.

Police yesterday arrested Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha over allegations of treason, with Prime Minister Hun Sen accusing the opposition ...

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

A week after opposition leader Kem Sokha said his party would no longer appeal to anti-Vietnamese sentiments in its campaigns, two prominent opposition ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday used the 40th anniversary of his defection from the Khmer Rouge to re-enact his crossing into Vietnam, justify his decision to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday accused “some people” of trying to instigate conflict, and even war, between the country and its neighbours, while personally ...

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

PHNOM PENH: Anti-Vietnamese sentiment is expected to run high in Cambodia as elections approach, with political parties likely to use nationalistic rhetoric as ...

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.

Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc agreed yesterday to write to the French government to request expert assistance in ...

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 ...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has asked Interior Minister Sar Kheng to ensure that Cambodians living near the border with Vietnam are barred from ...

The Vietnamese government yesterday agreed in principle to provide a grant of $2 million to Cambodia to build a model market aimed at boosting cross-border ...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday released evidence they say clears imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, presenting a webpage ...

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

As the government threatens to prosecute those who speak out against the maps it uses to demarcate the border with Vietnam, one opposition lawmaker says ...

After weeks of fiery rhetoric, more than a thousand opposition supporters led by four parliamentarians streamed towards a remote stretch of Vietnamese border ...

Cambodia's joint border committee chairman Var Kim Hong signs a border deal with his Vietnamese counterpart, deputy foreign minister Ho Xuan Son, following ...

Tensions continued to rise between Cambodia and Vietnam yesterday, with both countries firing off statements over recent border disputes, including fierce ...

CNRP lawmaker Riel Khemarin is helped by fellow activists following a clash with Vietnamese villagers in Svay Rieng province's Kampong Ro district, June 29, ...