A group of opposition lawmakers has urged the Constitutional Council to amend a contentious law on regulating NGOs in the country. Prum Nhean Vicheth, a spokesman for the Constitutional Council, confirmed receipt of the petition and said the Council will be considering the draft law ...

Hundreds of Cambodian internet users have made their feelings unknown on their government’s controversial plants to regulate the country’s internet, after a local civil society group invited public comment online. ...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC) held a meeting today on the “constitutionality” of a newly-approved law on the Association and Non-governmental Organization. ...

The Constitutional Council will meet with a group of opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over a controversial draft law to regulate NGOs, as it prepares to review the bill and send it to the king to be signed into law. ...

The Constitutional Council has officially accepted the contentious Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations, which would tighten regulations on thousands of organizations in the country in what critics fear could mean a major crackdown on basic freedoms and government criticism. ...

Not long ago, Sim Pov, a representative of 69 families from Kratie province, came to Phnom Penh to meet with urban housing rights protesters. He wanted to learn from them how he could organize his own community, which is locked in a land dispute with ...

The National Road Safety Committee said 2020 will be the year it strengthens enforcement of the Road Traffic Law, while Minister of Interior Sar Kheng urged traffic police to enforce the Law equally and without tolerance to reduce the number of traffic casualties. The remarks ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday dismissed a request made by some civil society groups and claimed the government will not repeal the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations. ...

The Ministry of Interior has rejected a request by some 100 civil society organisations to repeal the Law on Associations and NGOs (Lango). The ministry said the current Lango is in line with the Constitution and had gone through many rounds of consultation among relevant ...

The government said today the state of emergency draft law will be forwarded directly to the National Assembly without the need of the Council of Ministers to approve amid COVID-19 outbreak. ...

While the Senate is expected to debate and approve the “State of Emergency” law next week, if it is approved by the National Assembly on Friday, the question remains on who can declare a state of emergency since King Norodom Sihamoni is still in China ...

A unanimous vote of approval for the proposed “State of Emergency” law is expected to be cast today during the plenary session of the National Assembly. The draft law comes amid the increasing cases of coronavirus infections in the Kingdom. ...

The government will take no longer than 30 days to implement a state of emergency once the bill is signed into law. Soldiers are already on standby to ensure security and help citizens.   ...

The opposition has selected five of its members to join a bipartisan committee to examine the draft trade union law, a step the ruling party has not yet made amid murkiness about when the group will actually meet.The law has come under fire from independent ...

The Ministry of Interior will hold a sixth meeting with civil society organisation representatives on July 6 to review and discuss amendments to the Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations (Lango). The organisations are hopeful the points they have raised will be included in the ...

The government and members of the civil society organisation met for the sixth and final time yesterday to discuss amendments to the Law on Association and Non-governmental Organisations, which still remains unresolved. The government working group led by Interior Ministry secretary of state Bun Honn ...

Prisoners still face being exploited for labour, despite the government’s March prakas banning goods made behind bars from being exported, rights group Licadho has said. Although Licadho believes the prakas will help protect the image of Cambodia’s garment industry, it says inmates still face exploitation under ...

Cambodia will not declare the state of emergency with the current situation of COVID-19 transmission in the country, stressed Prime Minister Hun Sen in a voice message Monday evening.   ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen reaffirmed today that the Kingdom will not declare a state of emergency for the “November 28 community incident” because it will paralyze the country’s economy.   ...

Seventy-five NGOs have asked the government to resume negotiations with civil society organisations on the draft LANGO amendment, which are in limbo, in order to speed up the process. ...