Commune Elections a big test for Hun Sen
Cambodians go to the polls early next month to elect more than 12,000 district officials, but the ballot is also shaping-up as a showdown between the two major parties amid threats of civil war and a crackdown on political dissent in the lead-up to national ...
Luke Hunt
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/commune-elections-a-big-test-for-hun-sen/3866975.html
Date Set for Mam Sonando's Court Hearing
A hearing date has been scheduled next month at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando, who has been detained on charges related to insurrection, his lawyer said yesterday. The trial is set for Sept. 11, Mr. Sonando’s lawyer, Sok Sam Oeun, said ...
UN Concerned By Authorities' Use of Violence
Unprovoked violence by government and private security guards, the use of weapons to quell protests, and communities resorting to violent means in land disputes is a growing cause for concern in Cambodia, the U.N.’s Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in its ...
Reluctance to join single-visa scheme could prove to be costly
Thailand has to revise its strategy concerning a regional single visa scheme, or it could lose millions of tourists to neighbouring countries, which are kicking off the “CLMV Single Visa” next year without the Kingdom’s participation. Five countries – Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar – ...
Cambodia's consumer prices decline
Consumer prices decreased month-on-month in May for the first time since statistics were available, Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics (NIS) data showed. The 1.1 per cent drop, driven largely by lower food and gasoline prices, would be a relief to businesses and shoppers after a period ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062556991/Business/consumer-prices-decline.html
Union Bashes Wage Hike, Ponders National Strike
The Free Trade Union (FTU) is unhappy with the size of the raise agreed to this week by manufacturers for garment workers and said it would meet next week to decide whether to hold a nationwide strike in August for a larger increase, said FTU ...
The ‘silent’ in silent majority
Throngs of young Cambodian People’s Party supporters have gathered on the corners of Sihanouk and Sothearos Boulevards for days now, their mere presence a testament to the CPP’s ostensibly broad-based popularity. They represent a powerful voting bloc in a country where the lion’s share of the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98silent%E2%80%99-silent-majority
Kem Sokha Concerned Over Post-Election Violence
Opposition vice president Kem Sokha on Thursday said he could not guarantee there would be no violence following Sunday’s vote and appealed to the international community to be on alert and help ensure a peaceful transition after the election results are released. Speaking to reporters after ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/kem-sokha-concerned-over-post-election-violence-36762/
Myanmar’s president applauds Hun Sen over reappointment
Myanmar’s president Thein Sein congratulated Hun Sen over his reappointment for a new five-year term as the Prime Minister of Cambodia for the fifth legislature. “I strongly believe that under the wise leadership of Sam Dech, the relation and cooperation between our two countries will ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NzM3MzRlZTY0NTR
Declare assets, ACU tells former officials
The Anti-Corruption Unit has sent a letter of warning to three recently dismissed Senate advisers to declare their assets and debt as required by law. In a notification signed by ACU chairman Om Yentieng on Monday, the trio – identified as Vong Sopheap, Kouch Cheahuot and ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/declare-assets-acu-tells-former-officials
Crushing protests, CPP has abandoned constitution
King Norodom Sihamoni has not declared a state of emergency in Cambodia. But that hasn’t stopped the CPP government of Prime Minister Hun Sen from disregarding the Constitution in its effort to stamp out demonstrations and political dissent in Phnom Penh. Facing mass rallies calling for ...
Colin Meyn and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/crushing-protests-cpp-has-abandoned-constitution-50358/
Poll Shows Cambodia Ranks High in ‘Global Suffering’
Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poll-shows-cambodia-ranks-high-in-global-suffering-49070/
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy leads protest in Geneva against Hun Sen’s government
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy joint his Cambodian supporters, who live in Europe, to hold a protest in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva in his effort to attack the government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, one of the longest Asian leaders. He left ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZDI2YzUzOGNiMWQ
Election Body Reform Elusive as Negotiators Seek Agreement
Negotiators for Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties say they have reached agreements on key points of election reform, moving past a potential breakdown in talks last week. But they did not agree on an overhaul of the National Election Committee, widely seen as biased toward ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/election-body-reform-elusive-as-negotiators-seek-agreement/1873014.html
Four injured in roller coaster accident
Two teenagers and a couple in their twenties were injured in a roller coaster accident on Sunday at Chamkar Pring Amusement park in Sen Sok district, police said Monday. Keo Sothout, district police chief, said that a bolt on the ride came loose and sent two ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/four-injured-in-roller-coaster-accident-57652/
CNRP holds a citywide rolling rally
Days after authorities repeatedly cracked down on demonstrations, opposition party supporters staged a rolling rally across Phnom Penh yesterday, filling up roads for hours and blocking major intersections. About 500 people with tuk-tuks and motorbikes gathered at the Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in the ...
Meas Sokchea and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-holds-citywide-rolling-rally
Obama Signs Off on Aid Cuts to Government
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) officer and his son-in-law were arrested separately on Thursday and Friday in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey province for producing tens of thousands of dollars of counterfeit U.S. banknotes, officials said Sunday. Police arrested Tang Thearith, 35, in Poipet City on ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obama-signs-off-on-aid-cuts-to-government-50886/
EU Parliament Calls for Investigation of July’s Election
Members of the European Union’s parliament are calling for the Cambodian government to conduct an investigation into allegations of fraud in July’s election. A resolution passed by EU parliamentarians last week follows a violent crackdown on labor and opposition protests that have posed a challenge to ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/eu-parliament-calls-for-investigation-of-cambodia-july-election/1833952.html
NEC strives for more power
A member of the much-maligned National Election Committee said yesterday he hoped that the body would cease to be merely a “paper tiger” and be granted strong powers to punish political parties for electoral transgressions when future election reforms are put in place. Speaking at the ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-strives-more-power
CPP faces isolation: Sokha
Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem Sokha returned to Phnom Penh late on Monday and hit the ground running, lambasting the ruling party for blaming the recent collapse of talks on his intransigence and inviting his political foes to risk international condemnation by ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-faces-isolation-sokha