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    • Cambodia
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    • Indonesia
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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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