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        • Australia
        • Australia and Asia

        China’s rise in Southeast Asia is bringing in a golden age for Australia

        Susannah Patton
        Disquiet about Beijing’s growing presence is motivating countries across the region to seek deeper cooperation with Canberra.
      • 29 May 2024
        • Cambodia
        • Vietnam
        • Sustainability

        Water woes: Cambodia and Vietnam clash over the Funan Techo Canal

        Juki Trinh
        Environmental, economic and geopolitical concerns are all bound up in the latest tensions along the Mekong River.
      • 14 May 2024
        • Cambodia
        • Vietnam

        Dams, salt, and the sad fate of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

        Buu Nguyen
        Freshwater depletion and salinisation have become critical issues, while nationalism impedes cooperation.
      • 22 Feb 2024
        • Cambodia
        • Vietnam

        Can Vietnam and Cambodia build a lasting peace?

        Buu Nguyen
        Haunted by history, the two nations must go beyond official narratives for true reconciliation.
      • 13 Feb 2024
        • Asean
        • Cambodia
        • Laos
        • Thailand
        • Australia

        ASEAN summit a chance for Australia to reach out to mainland Southeast Asia

        Hadrien T. Saperstein
        Melbourne gathering is a unique chance for Australia to relate to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in ways that do not depend on geopolitical alignment.
      • 18 Sep 2023
        • Cambodia
        • Human rights
        • International law
        • War Crimes

        Testimonial therapy: Buddhism’s influence in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge tribunal

        Andre Kwok
        Faith-based interventions and criminal prosecutions can innovatively meet.
      • 29 Aug 2023
        • Cambodia
        • China
        • Thailand

        Cambodia, Thailand and dealing with China: The more things change…

        Jitsiree Thongnoi
        New prime ministers might be in the job, but don’t expect any big shifts in approaches to Beijing.
      • 22 Aug 2023
        • Cambodia
        • Australia in the World

        Cambodia’s democracy deficit: Australia’s role and responsibility

        Gareth Evans , Gordon Conochie
        Have we done enough to support human and democratic rights in a country where they are perpetually under attack?
      • 27 Jul 2023
        • Cambodia

        Is Hun Sen really stepping down?

        Milton Osborne
        After dominating Cambodia for so long, he will continue to dictate politics even after a handover to son Hun Manet.
      • 21 Jul 2023
        • Cambodia
        • China
        • Southeast Asia
        • Russia
        • Global Issues
        • Africa

        Who leads the world as longest in charge of their country?

        Daniel Flitton
        Put together a list and you can start to see a pattern.
      • 30 Mar 2023
        • Cambodia
        • Thailand

        Paying for a new Thai democracy

        Greg Earl
        The real winners are far from clear, but Thailand’s populist, party jumping election is Asia’s vote to watch this year.
      • 22 Mar 2023
        • Cambodia

        Enter Cambodia’s Hun Manet

        Jack Sato
        Numbers tell the story of a military leader working overtime on a leadership succession game plan.
      • 25 Jul 2022
        • Cambodia
        • Human rights

        Taking on Cambodia’s “Lady Liberty”

        JJ Rose
        An American human rights lawyer sentenced to six years in a Phnom Penh prison may cause Hun Sen no end of trouble.
      • 16 May 2022
        • Sustainability
        • Multilateral Institutions
        • Cambodia
        • Thailand
        • Vietnam
        • Laos
        • Environment

        Diplomacy is indispensable to manage the Mekong

        Anoulak Kittikhoun
        The goal of a healthy river won’t be helped by misreading the shared mission of the Mekong River Commission.
      • 12 Apr 2022
        • Sustainability
        • Myanmar
        • Cambodia
        • China
        • Thailand
        • Vietnam
        • Laos

        How the Mekong River Commission ignores reality

        Milton Osborne
        Nothing is worth celebrating in how a once mighty wild river has been cruelly tamed.
      • 20 Dec 2021
        • Cambodia

        Hun Sen’s all-encompassing rule of Cambodia

        Mark Tilly
        The strongman has anointed his son as successor – after an election, of course.
      • 26 Nov 2021
        • Cambodia
        • Thailand
        • Climate change
        • Southeast Asia

        Trouble on the Mekong

        Mark Tilly
        Countries along one of Asia’s longest rivers need to address the effects of climate change and overdevelopment.
      • 29 Jul 2021
        • Sustainability
        • Cambodia
        • China
        • Vietnam
        • Laos
        • Environment

        Bad news for Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

        Milton Osborne
        Climate change, yes, but other factors, too.
      • 11 Aug 2020
        • Cambodia
        • China
        • Coronavirus

        Cambodia: Hard choices

        Kimkong Heng
        Punishment for democratic backsliding might force Hun Sen’s government closer to China – but not without cost.
      • 11 Aug 2020
        • Sustainability
        • Cambodia
        • China
        • Thailand
        • Vietnam
        • Climate change
        • Southeast Asia
        • Laos

        Chinese dams and the Mekong drought

        Milton Osborne
        The environmental impact of China’s dam building upstream is undeniable. The silence from some quarters is surprising.
      • 28 Jul 2020
        • Cambodia
        • Thailand
        • Vietnam
        • Southeast Asia
        • Laos

        What’s the secret to Southeast Asia’s Covid success stories?

        Dominic Meagher
        There is no secret.
      • 3 Jul 2020
        • Australia
        • Myanmar
        • Cambodia
        • Indonesia
        • Thailand
        • Vietnam
        • Philippines
        • Southeast Asia
        • Coronavirus
        • Human rights

        Southeast Asian democracies in declining health amid Covid-19

        Melissa Crouch
        An illiberal turn across the region has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Australia should take note.
      • 26 Jun 2020
        • Cambodia

        Hun Manet: A Cambodian dynasty?

        Kimkong Heng
        The eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen is being groomed to take over, but still has to convince key political players.
      • 17 Jun 2020
        • Cambodia
        • Coronavirus

        Cambodia: Caught in the middle

        Kimkong Heng
        As it navigates a post-Covid recovery, Cambodia needs to strike a balance between the US and China.
      • 12 Jun 2020
        • Cambodia
        • Thailand
        • Human rights

        Thailand: Another dissenter disappears

        Craig Keating
        A fresh abduction case raises serious questions, not for the first time, about the reach of Thai authorities.
      • 27 May 2020
        • Cambodia
        • China

        Another pearl in China’s string?

        Charles Dunst , Shahn Savino
        Plans in Cambodia for a massive tourist resort on an out-of-the way island don‘t add up and may serve a different goal.
      • 5 Dec 2019
        • Cambodia

        What I said then, what I think now: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal

        Milton Osborne
        Progress has been lamentably slow, but a decade on, benefits can be seen in Cambodians learning this terrible history.
      • 26 Nov 2019
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia: Playing the long game against Hun Sen

        Charles Dunst
        European Union pressure is working, and revoking trade preferences might allow Cambodians to escape dynastic rule.
      • 5 Nov 2019
        • Cambodia

        Photo essay: Phnom Penh and China-backed building boom

        Simon Roughneen
        Towering over low shops and French colonial–era townhouses grows a new city in tribute to the politics of the present.
      • 24 Sep 2019
        • Cambodia

        Micro-loans raise major questions in Cambodia

        Andrew Nachemson
        Studies show microfinance increasingly harming those it claims to help, while defenders cry “fake news”.
      • 5 Jul 2019
        • Defence & Security
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia: the regime’s base survival instinct on display

        Lucy West , Sovinda Po
        A decision to reject a US offer to refurbish Ream Naval Base might hint at China’s influence but also domestic concerns.
      • 24 May 2019
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia: weak words on strongman rule

        Andrew Nachemson
        <p>Why bother to send&nbsp;a UN special rapporteur to the country if the democratic backsliding is all but ignored?</p>
      • 14 May 2019
        • Cambodia
        • China

        Hun Sen’s natural bilateral “bestie”

        Lucy West , Sovinda Po
        Cambodia’s tilt to China is abundantly clear after a slew of new deals and rumours of a potential Chinese military base.
      • 26 Mar 2019
        • Cambodia

        Taking transitional justice to Cambodia’s youth

        Renee Jeffery
        Decades after Khmer Rouge, reparations could not be afforded to its victims. So justice is looking at Cambodia’s youth.
      • 8 Jan 2019
        • Cambodia

        The rude health of Cambodia’s Hun Sen

        Milton Osborne
        Speculation about succession by Hun Sen’s eldest son is an interesting talking point – that could go on a while yet.
      • 29 Nov 2018
        • Asia
        • War Crimes
        • Cambodia

        International justice: tackling impunity in Asia

        Priya Pillai
        Trials in Cambodia, while fraught, may help deliver accountability for crimes against humanity across the region.
      • 20 Nov 2018
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia’s genocide verdict: better late than never

        Milton Osborne
        The Khmer Rouge trials reinforce the criminality of the Pol Pot regime but the glacial pace leaves much to be desired
      • 3 Oct 2018
        • Cambodia

        Hun Sen at the UN: a strategic appearance

        Darren Touch
        Cambodia’s took to the world stage in New York, with comments to dismiss critics and target an audience at home.
      • 7 Sep 2018
        • Cambodia

        The James Ricketson trial

        Erin Handley
        Watching court proceedings of a case marred by irregularities that in a country other than Cambodia might be thrown out.
      • 26 Jul 2018
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia’s election: where the numbers lie

        Erin Handley
        Strings of numbers that appear in social media comments are portentous in Cambodia’s stifled political climate.
      • 19 Jul 2018
        • Cambodia

        What has gone wrong in Cambodia?

        Milton Osborne
        In 1993 the international community allowed Hun Sen to remain the dominant political force, as he still is today.
      • 13 Jul 2018
        • Cambodia
        • Japan

        Why Japan is supporting Cambodia’s election

        Darren Touch
        Despite Western concern the ballot will be neither free or fair, Tokyo is seeking to counter China’s influence.
      • 11 Jul 2018
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia: dispelling the Malaysia illusion

        Astrid Norén-Nilsson
        No stunning surprises will be allowed in Hun Sen’s drive to remain as prime minister.
      • 2 Jul 2018
        • Cambodia

        Hun Sen and his personality cult

        Erin Handley
        The menace behind the man within the title “Princely Exalted Supreme Great Commander of Gloriously Victorious Troops”.
      • 8 Jun 2018
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia: the unfree press

        Andrew Nachemson
        Censorship has decimated a once vibrant media landscape, and the restrictions are growing.
      • 28 May 2018
        • Cambodia

        Cambodia: to vote or not to vote?

        Darren Touch
        The Cambodian people are being asked to boycott the election. To do so would be a mistake.
      • 11 May 2018
        • Cambodia

        Courageous voice for truth silenced in Cambodia

        Milton Osborne
        The demise of The Phnom Penh Post sees the end of a premier journal of record.
      • 8 May 2018
        • Cambodia

        Mourning Cambodia’s press freedom

        Erin Handley
        <p>The media crackdown continues with the sacking of the country’s last independent newspaper&nbsp;editor.</p>
      • 1 Feb 2018
        • Australia
        • Cambodia

        The awkward case of the Australian “spy” in Phnom Penh

        David Boyle
        Espionage charges against Australian film-maker James Ricketson have put a spotlight on Canberra’s delicate ties with Cambodia.
      • 19 Jan 2018
        • Cambodia

        Despite the controversy, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal is a success

        Tom Fawthrop
        There are many yardsticks beyond counting convictions for judging the achievements of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
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