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NEC representatives attend the final consultation on the draft regulations and procedures for the 2023 election, December 16, 2022. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Opposition Parties Urge for Election Regulations to be Changed Ahead of National Election

19 Dec 2022 10:41 AM|
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As the National Election Committee (NEC) held its final consultation Friday on draft regulations for the 2023 election, the opposition parties urged several key changes that they say are necessary to ensure a free and fair election.

A fisherman repairs his fishing net on the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, August 14, 2016. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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With low water levels and poor fishing, fishers struggle in Tonle Sap Lake

21 May 2021 6:52 AM|
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“We depend on fishing, we have no other skills, otherwise we will go to work as construction workers when we cannot catch fish anymore,” he said. “I can no longer find fish to eat, and I have to buy fish from the market.”

(From L) Then-CNRP president Kem Sokha, co- vice president Pol Ham, and vice president Mu Sochua cheer during the CNRP congress for a new president in Phnom Penh. Picture taken on March 2, 2017. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Hun Sen warns of ‘rebel group’ disrupting 2022 commune elections, as high-ranking CNRP officials allowed to rejoin politics

18 May 2021 9:15 PM|
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Former CNRP deputy president Pol Ham, and Phan Chansak, a committee member who is also Kem Sokha’s lawyer, submitted a letter on May 17 to the Ministry of Interior requesting that they be permitted to return to politics. The pair is among more than 100 senior officials who in 2017 were barred from politics for five years.

Villagers set up camp to block a street leading to a new airport construction site. The development is locked in a dispute with villagers in Kandal province's Kandal Stung district, May 17, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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Hundreds of people block road as airport project damages rice crops

17 May 2021 8:45 PM|
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Around 200 people affected by a mega-airport project in Kandal province have been protesting the damaging of their rice crop by developers by blocking the road to the project’s site in Kandal Stung since Friday.

Lawyers and the mother of Mean Pich Rita leave Phnom Penh Municipal Court after signing the bail guarantee for her release, May 13, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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TV presenter released on bail following request from PM’s lawyers

13 May 2021 10:39 PM|
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Viroch Sophang, Pich Rita’s defense lawyer, told CamboJA that the court questioned her Thursday morning and that Hun Sen’s lawyers were in attendance. Sophang said the court agreed to the bail release because of health problems Pich Rita faces and due to the lack of extensive investigation.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court as seen on May 5, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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TV presenter jailed for stabbing after accusing tycoon of attempted rape

12 May 2021 9:54 PM|
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Former Miss Grand Cambodia contestant Mean Pich Rita has been jailed on charges of theft and the use of violence after having allegedly stabbed Oknha Heng Sier in the stomach with a knife. Ms Pich Rita has filed a counterclaim accusing the tycoon of sexual harassment and attemped rape.

After a small Monday morning protest in their neighborhood demanding rent exemptions, suspended garment workers stand on the balconies of their rental apartments within a red zone at the Stung Meanchey III commune in Phnom Penh, May 10, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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Struggling workers in quarantine zones demand rent waivers for COVID-19 crisis

10 May 2021 9:02 PM|
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Residents in one of Phnom Penh’s few remaining quarantined neighborhoods launched a small protest Monday morning in the city’s southwestern Meanchey district to demand subsidized rent while they’re legally unable to go to work.

A motorist drives past the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) at Preah Sihanouk province on September 28, 2017. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Report: China’s new silk road project brings risk of increased illicit trade

7 May 2021 8:57 PM|
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing’s ambitious global programme for expanding its international trade opportunities and promoting infrastructure development, has been linked to increased risks of increased illicit trade, corruption, and crime, especially for weak economies such as Cambodia, a report has alleged.

A woman tries to get past a barricade at the border of one of Phnom Penh's red zones, April 30, 2021.CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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With lockdown coming to an end, the government still has lots to learn

5 May 2021 4:27 PM|
Sorn Sarath|

Following two weeks of curfew and the partial closure of the capital of Phnom Penh, the government abruptly announced in mid-April that the whole city,…

Opposition Parties Urge for Election Regulations to be Changed Ahead of National Election

With low water levels and poor fishing, fishers struggle in Tonle Sap Lake

Hun Sen warns of ‘rebel group’ disrupting 2022 commune elections, as high-ranking CNRP officials allowed to rejoin politics

Hundreds of people block road as airport project damages rice crops

TV presenter released on bail following request from PM’s lawyers

TV presenter jailed for stabbing after accusing tycoon of attempted rape

Struggling workers in quarantine zones demand rent waivers for COVID-19 crisis

Report: China’s new silk road project brings risk of increased illicit trade

With lockdown coming to an end, the government still has lots to learn

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