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PM warns NGOS to submit financial reports or face closure
Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned that non-governmental organisations which fail to submit their financial statements, as required by law, would face being shut down. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-warns-ngos-submit-financial-reports-or-face-closure
Shutdown of VOD undermines press freedom, embassies and civil society groups warn
After the government shuttered independent media Voice of Democracy (VOD) on Monday, dozens of civil society groups decried the decision and numerous embassies warned the loss of the publication seriously damaged Cambodia’s dwindling press freedom in the run-up to the July national election. ...
Khuon Narim and Jack Brook
https://cambojanews.com/shutdown-of-vod-undermines-press-freedom-embassies-and-civil-society-groups-warn/
NGOs and political parties say they won’t attend Justice Ministry ‘explanation’ of new constitutional amendments
Civil society groups and opposition parties that have opposed newly passed constitutional amendments said they would be boycotting a meeting hosted by the Ministry of Justice this week intended to clarify the changes to eight articles. ...
Sorn Sarath and Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/ngos-and-political-parties-say-they-wont-attend-justice-ministry-explanation-of-new-constitutional-amendments/
Young voters face disenfranchisement
Young potential voters who have migrated abroad in search of work are facing the loss of their voting rights due to a lack of information and documents required to register to vote from a location different to their registered address, civil society groups said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30819/young-voters-face-disenfranchisement/
