Observers said they do not believe that cases 003 and 004 will go to trial due to the strong opposition from Hun Sen.
Sunday’s election will see 58 of the Senate’s 62 members elected by a vote of members of parliament and more than 11,000 commune councilors across the country.
Im Chaem, charged by a United Nations-backed tribunal with crimes against humanity including mass murder, extermination and enslavement, will hold a worship service in her Cambodian village Sunday.
Economist Ear Sophal discusses Cambodia’s changing international relations with VOA Khmer's reporter Sok Khemara.
Some 30 hydropower dams are being constructed in Laos and about seven in Cambodia, funded predominantly by Chinese state companies.
U.S. congressmen in recent weeks held a hearing to assess new ways of applying sanctions on the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen over its crackdown on the opposition, media and civil society.
Kem Monovithya, a spokeswoman for the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, urged UN member states to add Cambodia to the agenda when the body meets in January.
Farhan Aziz Haq spoke to VOA Khmer about the Cambodian government’s crackdown on the opposition and growing democratic crisis leading up to next year’s general election.
Three witnesses testified on a wide range of issues, seeking intervention from the U.S. government to pressure Phnom Penh to reverse its crackdown.
The State Department declined to name which Cambodians had been specifically targeted by the visa ban.
On Thursday, Washington announced it was cutting $1.8 million in aid to the country’s national election body, a move Hun Sen claimed was intended to kill off Cambodian democracy.
Two paragraphs of the statement, obtained early by VOA Khmer, mention freedom of navigation and security in the region without referring to the South China Sea directly.
The statement is set to be approved on November 13 at the 5th ASEAN-US Summit to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of ASEAN-US Dialogue Relations.
In an exclusive interview, the minister says the international community should understand the jailed opposition leader did wrong — and appeared to act with U.S. support.
"I think that is very important that the United States Congress stay focused on the very unfortunate condition of Cambodia right now," said Congressman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio).
Speaking to VOA Khmer on Tuesday at the Capitol building, the three House of Representatives lawmakers urged the international community to act against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government.
Ted Cruz, who represents Texas for the Republican Party, gave the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen until November 9 to release opposition leader Kem Sokha.
Since Kem Sokha’s arrest more than half of the CNRP’s serving MPs have fled abroad fearing arrest and a politicized justice system.
The conference also discussed the legacy of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended Cambodia’s civil war in 1991 and enshrined pluralist democracy in Cambodian law.
But Prak Sokhon says Phnom Penh's pivot to China, which has encouraged crackdown on dissent, is 'based on mutual respect and mutual benefit'.
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