Recent satellite images taken of the coastal area around Sihanoukville, Cambodia, show a significant development of a China-funded naval base that would help Beijing boost its power projection not only in Southeast Asia but also the Taiwan Strait.
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The UN experts said that free and independent media is “critical” ahead of the national election this coming July. The call for the licence reinstatement for VOD, which was overseen by the Cambodian Centre for Independent Media (CCIM), came on February 20 from Vitit Muntarbhorn, special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia; Mary Lawlor, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; and Irene Khan, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression. “We are alarmed by the revocation of [VOD’s] licence without due process and with immediate effect in the run-up to the crucial national election in July this year,” they said in a joint statement.
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Cambodia has been officially removed from the “Money Laundering Grey List” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) today, thanks to the Kingdom’s effort in combating money laundering, terrorism financing and weapons proliferation financing, according to the outcomes of the FATF plenary released on February 24.
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Prime Minister Hun Sen, in his capacity as president of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), had a meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, the leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), in Hanoi over the weekend to discuss the situations for each party.
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