Advertisement A week after Cambodian authorities barred the country’s main opposition party from taking part in national elections in July, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen again criticized Western diplomats and accused them of supporting detained opposition leader Kem Sokha. The former leader of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has been ensnared in politically … Read more
Supporters of Cambodia’s Candlelight Party campaign ahead of the commune and sangkat elections that were held on June 5, 2022. Credit: Facebook/Candlelight Party Advertisement Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) has rejected the application of the country’s main opposition party to take part in this year’s national election, all but ensuring another clean sweep for Prime … Read more
Advertisement Cambodia’s electoral non-event of July 2018, in which the ruling party won all the national assembly seats after it banned the main opposition party, made for a strange media spectacle. International television stations, faithful to the notion of regular elections that are equally important and should get their allotted amount of coverage, earnestly covered … Read more
Advertisement Twenty political parties have registered for Cambodia’s parliamentary election in July, the country’s National Election Committee (NEC) announced yesterday, though nine of them have not yet been approved, including the one opposition party of any significance. According to The Associated Press, the nine outstanding applications are still under review, including that of the Candlelight … Read more
Advertisement Southeast Asia’s leaders generally do not go gentle into that good night, as a poet once wrote. At 97 years old, Mahathir Mohammad hasn’t lost any of his enthusiasm for racism and political bumbling, although it could also be said that he had few mental faculties to lose in old age. Singapore’s Lee Kuan … Read more