'Australia has been trying to reform those institutions, reform Hun Sen. It’s not going to work.'

The time may be ripe for punitive actions to call Hun Sen’s bluff.

The release of 'First they Killed my Father' is well timed to advance fears of a return of the past.

Aaron Connelly speaks with Milton Osborne, one of the world's leading historians of Cambodian politics, about recent developments in the country.

If the West allows Cambodia's democracy to fall without a whimper, the contagion of despotism will be hard to contain in Southeast Asia.

Hun Sen is preparing for next year’s elections, which means that he's determined to undermine, denigrate, and punish all those he sees as political enemies.

Four inhabited islands would have be submerged were the dam to go ahead, displacing 19,000 people.

Tough talk with the US on war debt and the budding new relationship with China are indicative of an unpopular leader steeling for elections.