<p>As leaders from the Cpp and CNRp sat down for a round of top-level negotiations aimed at breaking the country’s prolonged political impasse on Monday, opposition supporters once again poured into phnom penh’s Freedom park for the second day of demonstrations against alleged fraud in ...p>

<p>One year ago today, Hang Serei Odom, a journalist in Ratanakkiri province, received a fateful phone call. After telling his wife he was going to meet a military police officer, he bid her goodnight. He left his house in Banlung City at about 7 p.m. ...p>

<p>CNRp leader Sam Rainsy on Thursday publicly announced the opposition’s intention to conduct a campaign of civil disobedience in line with peaceful demonstrations organized by the charismatic leader of Indian nationalism Mahatma Gandhi, who helped win independence from Great Britain. Mr. Rainsy made the remarks at ...p>

<p>Defense Minister Tea Banh on Thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the Sihanoukville Autonomous port in the direction of phnom penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday in a last minute meeting that it would allow the opposition CNRp to take 1,000 people through the streets of phnom penh to deliver a petition to the U.N. and eight foreign embassies during its three-day mass demonstration that ...p>

<p>The opposition CNRp said Thursday it is forging ahead with plans to hold a three-day demonstration, which the party has dubbed a “camp-in,” despite a letter from the Ministry of Interior that says the protests can only go on for one day. The Interior Ministry letter, ...p>

<p>The permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations in Geneva shot back at the UN human rights office (OHCHR) yesterday for criticising what it characterised as the Kingdom’s deteriorating political climate, claiming the criticism was “unverified” and “politically motivated”. // // &nbsp; ...p>

<p>At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, municipal security guards and men in plainclothes, wielding steel bars, metal pipes, batons, sticks and axes, forcibly cleared hundreds of demonstrators from phnom penh’s Freedom park, where the opposition CNRp has been protesting against the government of prime Minister Hun Sen ...p>

<p>The U.N. and local human rights groups have condemned the government’s violent eviction of CNRp supporters from phnom penh’s Freedom park on Saturday, as well as its indefinite ban on public protests in the city. On Saturday, the phnom penh Municipal Court also summonsed opposition leaders ...p>

<p>// // // // An Immigration Department official yesterday confirmed that foreigners requesting a long-term extension of their business visas would need to produce a work permit, with implementation of the rule starting September 4. &nbsp;&nbsp; ...p>

<p>The Cambodia Daily yesterday said it was under “siege” and continued to call the government’s targeting of the newspaper an attack on press freedom, as five radio station owners that had been ordered to shut stop attempted to resume their services. // // &nbsp; ...p>