Elections

Svay Rieng provincial authorities refused to take responsibility Monday for a group of thugs armed with wooden clubs who worked together with police and soldiers on Sunday to prevent a group of nationalist activists from visiting a post demarcating the eastern border with Vietnam. ...

The National Election Committee will submit draft sub-decrees to the government this week that would establish three new departments within the commission to manage public relations, voter lists and procurement. ...

Two years after his return from exile in France, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party says the changes that have occurred in Cambodia since then are dramatic, widespread, and irreversible. ...

The Interior Ministry officially registered the Khmer Power Party on Friday, after years of insisting—despite a lack of evidence—that its parent group, the Khmer People Power Movement, was a terrorist organization. ...

The new computerized registry of voters for the next election will catalog citizens’ real names, reduce fraud, and get rid of the double-name glitches that plagued the last election cycle, says NEC spokesman Hang Puthea. ...

National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun again went on the attack Friday against CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An, who has been at the fore of the opposition’s recent campaign to highlight Vietnam’s alleged incursions into Cambodia. ...

Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, is currently in Paris. He did not attend a recent dinner with the families of Rescue Party President Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen. But speaking to opposition supporters in France, he ...

The so-called “culture of dialogue” has seen the Kingdom’s two major political parties cooperating on a number of longstanding political issues, but critics of the new detente continue to warn that it could end up being a trap for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party ...

CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha has called on the public to become more actively involved in politics to prevent political leaders from growing too self-important and abandoning their causes. ...

Cambodia’s next elections for commune officials will take place in February 2017, Interior Minister Sar Kheng has confirmed. ...

The Khmer People Power Movement on Tuesday handed the Interior Ministry the last of the paperwork it needs to form a political party, just days after its self-exiled founder, Sourn Serey Ratha, was pardoned by King Norodom Sihamoni, at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s request, for ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy met with Cambodian Muslim leaders recently, promising a broad range of political concessions important to their community. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has announced it will recruit 2,400 computer-trained staff to oversee electronic voter registration, due to be launched early next year across more than 1,600 communes. ...

A dissident group is expected to file paperwork today with the Interior Ministry marking its final step towards becoming a political party. ...

Opposition spokesman Meach Sovannara returned to Cambodia from Thailand yesterday to appear in court regarding an insurrection charge he received at Naga Bridge last July. ...

Facing an opposition boycott and a European Union threat over foreign aid, the government plans to vote into law today a controversial draft law restricting NGOs. ...

China is providing increased funds for building and repairing Cambodian roads, and for water and land transportation projects, said Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jian Guo at a workshop at the Senate yesterday called “One Belt, One Road.” ...

The Japanese technical group helping the National Election Committee (NEC) with its new list of voters has suggested that the NEC not use thumbprints for registration.  ...

A group of electoral monitoring NGOs under the banner of the Electoral Reform Alliance yesterday gathered to express their concern over current regulations that govern Cambodia’s voter registration process. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC)’s leaders including chairman, vice chairman will receive a group of German Bundestag delegation on Thursday, said NEC’s news alert. ...

At the Cambodia National Rescue Party Headquarters on Sunday, the party’s president declared that bloody clashes with the government like those of July 1997 will never happen again. ...

About 25 CNRP members from Svay Rieng province traveled to Phnom Penh on Thursday to demand that opposition lawmaker Kong Sophea be removed from the party’s provincial working group for promoting his friends, but left empty-handed. ...

CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun wrote to National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Thursday to complain that CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An broke the parliament’s rules by attempting to be interviewed while Mr. Vun himself was being interviewed. ...

CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun and CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An got into a heated back-and-forth following a meeting at the National Assembly on Wednesday, with Mr. Vun refusing to allow Mr. Sam An to speak to a reporter while inside parliament. ...