Up to 20,000 extra security personnel will be deployed throughout the campaign period, with 70,000 deployed on Election Day, a police spokesman said.
Mam Sonando, who was released from eight months in prison earlier this year, told VOA Khmer in an interview in Washington that the future of his own station is “completely dark.”
Chhouk Bandith, former governor of Bavet city, was sentenced to one year and a half in jail and fined $10,000 for the shooting.
Seven of eight political parties scheduled to run in the July election pledged on Tuesday to improve Cambodians’ freedom of expression.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned two massive Angkorian statues to Cambodia.
The request was made to Prime Minister Hun Sen by lawyers for civil party participants at the tribunal.
Ethnic minorities come from 20 different groups and make up about 1 percent of Cambodia’s total population.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy last week claimed he has become the most popular Cambodian politician on Facebook leading into the July elections.
In an interview with VOA Khmer, Poch Yuon Ly’s daughter, Poch Piseth Neary, called the diary, “the only valuable asset my father left me.”
The UN suspended Cambodia’s seat in 1997, following a violent coup by the Cambodian People’s Party, which put Prime Minister Hun Sen in power.
Observers say the threat seamed to be a use of the courts by Hun Sen and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party to pressure the opposition ahead of the July 28 elections.
Cambodia has about 20 different ethnic minorities, most of whom live in the forested northeast of the country, but comprise about 1 percent of the population.
Cambodians and myriad other immigrant communities in the US are preparing to celebrate World Refugee Day.
Opposition lawmakers have begun to collect support in a petition to have 29 lawmakers returned to the National Assembly, after their expulsion earlier this month.
Better social development in Cambodia will require more education and volunteer work from the country’s young people, a youth ambassador says.
Ruling Cambodian People’s Party and opposition officials have begun engaging in public attacks on one another, as the country heads toward the official campaign period in July.
The authors recently spoke with VOA Khmer to describe what they called the “evolving” perceptions of Cambodia’s longtime premier.
Unesco representatives from than 120 countries are meeting in Phnom Penh to discuss an updated World Heritage site list.
Elections are slated for July 28, with eight political parties vying for support from 9 million registered voters, many of them under the age of 35.
Legal experts say the constitution does not allow for the dismissal of lawmakers within six months of the end of their mandate, which in this case would be the July 28 elections.
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