#CAMBODIA: Top Opposition Leader Kept Off Ballot

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Cambodia’s election committee on Tuesday rejected Rong Chhun, a top candidate from the country’s main opposition party and said the party must correct several things before its candidates can be allowed to run in the July 23 parliamentary elections.

The decision comes a day after Monday’s deadline for parties to submit applications to participate in the vote that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party is widely expected to win. 

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#CAMBODIA: Opposition Groups Oppose Constitutional Amendments

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Civil society and non-governmental organisations claim that the proposed amendments to the Cambodian Constitution will harm national interest and affect the process of seeking justice for the people, while the National Assembly (NA) was scheduled to discuss the draft law yesterday.

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#CAMBODIA: Retirement Age Raised From 55 To 60 For All Civil Servants

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Cambodia will increase their retirement ages as the aging population in the country keeps increasing. It joins Vietnam, who also recently raised its civil servants' retirement age.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Civil Service has increase the retirement age of all civil servants to 60 years and with this, nearly 2,000 civil servants who are set to retire by year’s end will continue working.

Its current retirement age for civil servants varies from 55 to 60 years old, according to their positions. The Phnom Penh Post said that with the new ruling, the retirement age has been standardized to 60 years.

Pictured: Ministry of Civil Service, 
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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#CAMBODIA: Supreme Court Outlaws Main Opposition Party Ahead Of 2018 Elections

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Cambodia's Supreme Court has dissolved the country's main opposition party, leaving the government with no significant competitor ahead of elections next year. The Cambodia National Rescue Party was accused of plotting to topple the government - charges it denies, and describes as politically motivated. More than 100 party members are now banned from politics for five years. Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hun Sen, has ruled for 32 years.

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#CAMBODIA: Local Elections Sunday Will Set Stage For 2018 National Vote

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Premier Hun Sen has threatened war if the rival Cambodia National Rescue Party outpaces his ruling party at bellwether local elections on Sunday

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#CAMBODIA: National Assembly Denied Request To Grill Gov't Over Murder Case

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Saying the issue a court matter, the president of Cambodia’s National Assembly has blocked the opposition National Rescue Party’s attempt to interrogate members of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet over the investigation into the July murder of popular political commentator and government critic Kem Ley. The move prevents the National Assembly from questioning Interior Minister Sar Kheng and Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana in an open session.

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#CAMBODIA: King Pardons Opposition's Kem Sokha At Request Of PM To Cool Tensions

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Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has granted a royal pardon to a leader of the main opposition party, at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen, holding out hope for compromise after a period of rising political tension. Kem Sokha, a leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, was sentenced to five months in jail in September after failing to appear in court in connection with a case against two of his party colleagues.

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#CAMBODIA: Lawmaker Stripped Of Legal Status In Nat'l Assembly; Faces Arrest On Defamation Charge

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Cambodia’s parliament voted to remove opposition leader Sam Rainsy's lawmaker status and strip him of his immunity following a court order for his arrest on a seven-year-old defamation conviction, drawing condemnation from the U.S. and rights groups who demanded that he be reinstated. He's delaying returning from a trip to South Korea.

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Ruling, Opposition Parties Form Electoral Commission; Open Talks on Election [world politics news]

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Oppo Party Rejects National Election Commission's Ruling That PM Re-Elected [world politics news]

Opposition National Rescue Party's Vice President Kem Sokha, center.

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Gov't Deploys Troops, Tanks in Capital City Ahead of Protests Disputing Election [world politics news]

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Oppo National Rescue Party Disputes Election Results, Says it Won a Majority of Seats [world politics news]

Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy claims his party won 63 of the assembly's 123 seats in the July 28 election. PM Hun Sen's People's Party claimed it won 68 seats, the opposition, 55, but the long-time leader now says he is willing to investigate claims of election fraud.

CAMBODIA: Nat'l Assembly Criminalizes Denial of Khmer Rouge Atrocities [world politics news]

CAMBODIA: US Calls for Fair Elections in 2013; Release of Protesters