Conviction of journalist who livestreamed 2020 protest goes against local and international law, legal group says
Opposition Candlelight Party is projected to win at least four commune chief positions, collecting some 2,176 commune council seats nationwide, according to party’s officials
The recent Washington summit marks a renewed U.S. commitment to ASEAN after four years of neglect under former President Trump. But experts caution that keeping up the momentum — and effectively engaging ASEAN in U.S. efforts to counter China’s regional influence — remains an uphill challenge.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, leaders of other Southeast Asian nations to meet this week for US-ASEAN Summit at White House
While the U.S. continues to regularly criticize Cambodia’s backsliding on human rights and democracy, analysts said it’s China’s influence that is driving U.S. strategy in the region, and causing the Biden administration to take such a frank approach to Phnom Penh.
Southeast Asian nations’ relatively strong responses to the Ukraine conflict shows their concerns over the breach of international law and norms by a major power.
Cambodia, the incumbent chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, says the Myanmar Junta’s Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin will not be invited to attend the 10-nation bloc’s top diplomatic gathering in Phnom Penh this month.
Analysts say the meeting of the 800-plus-member central committee will likely be the culmination of Hun Sen’s decades of consolidating control within the party, though it also risks exposing rare public rifts between senior party leaders.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne paid a visit to Cambodia earlier in November in what was the first visit by a top Australian diplomat in nearly eight years. As Australia’s engagements with Cambodia expand ahead of Phnom Penh taking over of ASEAN chairmanship in 2022, VOA Khmer’s Aun Chhengp
As Cambodia prepares to assume the ASEAN chair next month, Prime Minister Hun Sen sent a resounding and divisive message last week: Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing is welcome back into the club after being shunned since leading a coup in February.
Australian ambassador to Cambodia Pablo Kang sat down with VOA Khmer’s Aun Chhengpor on November 16 in Phnom Penh for an interview about Cambodia-Australia bilateral relations, the state of human rights in Cambodia, Indo-Pacific Security Issues and Canberra’s expectations from Cambodia’s 2022 Chairm
“The opinion of Malaysian foreign minister regarding the ASEAN Chair's special envoy could put into question his prejudice on Cambodia’s resolve and privilege as ASEAN chair in 2022 to resolve the Myanmar crisis,” said Koy Kuong, who is also a secretary of state at the foreign ministry.
China’s domestic use of high-tech tools to monitor its citizens, including biometric identification and DNA collection in restive province of Xinjiang, have raised concerns about privacy, discrimination, and potential targeting of dissidents along with legitimate criminals.
At 28 years old, the country’s sixth constitution has a longer lifespan than all of its processors. However, it’s a significantly different document — having gone through nine amendments, the latest in 2018.
Khieu Samphan’s defense team has appealed his conviction in Case 002/02 for genocide of the ethnic Vietnamese, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.
Around five million people had been given at least one dose of a vaccine as of Tuesday, with 1.7 million people fully vaccinated in Phnom Penh.
The spike in cases comes as Phnom Penh health officials announced that more than 99 percent of the capital’s adult population, around 1.7 million residents, were fully vaccinated.
The report highlights debt-based coercion among 10,000 Cambodians, including nearly 4,000 children, working in brick kilns, with similar indebtedness leading to migration and exploitative work conditions overseas.
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