Voting for Cambodia’s Senate began on Sunday in an election decried by critics as a “farce”, with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party set to dominate months after the country’s only viable opposition party was dissolved. The European parliament has voted to consider suspending Cambodia’s preferential “Everything But Arms” trade access to the European Union in response to the country’s authoritarian backslide. A new independent report has found that most Cambodian journalists believe media freedom is declining in the country – and that recent closures of several media outlets is politically motivated.