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CNRP trio seek asylum

Three Cambodia National Rescue Party staff members have fled, via Thailand, to another country in the region and are applying for asylum in third countries after being linked to the case of imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, sources have said.The group – believed to ...

Shaun Turton and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-trio-seek-asylum

CNRP pols fear possible set-up

An outspoken opposition lawmaker says he fears a set-up after a Svay Rieng woman was questioned in court yesterday over a complaint against him and others that she denies ever having made. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-pols-fear-possible-set

CNRP tells donors to retrieve their funds

A district official with the Cambodia National Rescue Party has offered a group of disgruntled donors in Kandal their money back after they lodged a complaint with local police over the opposition’s fundraising efforts for its Sun TV station. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-tells-donors-retrieve-their-funds

A ‘unique Khmer family’

In an apparent defence of his frequent absence from the Kingdom, opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy said that visiting Cambodians in wealthy Western countries such as France or Australia was just as important as visiting them in Cambodia itself. A recent war ...

Charles Rollet and Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unique-khmer-family

CNRP's Um Sam An sustains rhetoric on map

As the government threatens to prosecute those who speak out against the maps it uses to demarcate the border with Vietnam, one opposition lawmaker says he has found a map in the United States’ Library of Congress that he claims could shine new light on ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrps-um-sam-sustains-rhetoric-map

Ex-CNRP official to form new political party

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party senior official Lak Sopheap announced her return to politics last week with the founding of the Khmer Solidarity Party. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-cnrp-official-form-new-political-party

CNRP to send border maps

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will send digital maps of the Kingdom to the Royal Academy today to compare with copies provided by the United Nations, United States and France of the original French-Indochina maps known as the “Bonne maps”. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-send-border-maps

CNRP told to raise funds privately

Coming on the heels of the imprisonment of 11 of its activists, the arrests of three more and the rejection of an agreement to hold elections earlier, the Cambodia National Rescue Party has now been ordered to cease fundraising for its recently approved television station ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-told-raise-funds-privately

More CNRP called to court

A day after Prime Minister Hun Sen called for more arrests over anti-government protests that turned violent in July last year, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday summonsedfive more activists over the alleged “insurrection” in Freedom Park. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-cnrp-called-court

PM pushes for more Freedom Park arrests

On the heels of a string of prison sentences for opposition activists involved in anti-government protests in July of last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities to arrest more demonstrators allegedly involved in the “insurrection”, singling out but not naming seven Cambodia National ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-pushes-more-freedom-park-arrests

Opposition to submit complaint over LANGO

The opposition is expected today to lodge a constitutional challenge to the controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO) in a last-ditch effort to stop the legislation before it’s signed by the King. ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-submit-complaint-over-lango

Rainsy praises bipartisanship despite sentences

Only days before 11 opposition activists were imprisoned on charges widely branded as politically motivated, Prime Minister Hun Sen personally warned Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy to keep his troops in line and raised the spectre of possible jail sentences.In a text message ...

Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-praises-bipartisanship-despite-sentences

Lawmaker’s immunity threatened

Ruling party lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday said opposition parliamentarian Um Sam An’s legal immunity could be suspended for criticising National Assembly President Heng Samrin, but refused to specify what law, if any, the Cambodia National Rescue Party member had broken. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmakers-immunity-threatened

Rainsy tells FTU to push for $180

Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Sam Rainsy yesterday told unionists that his party supports a minimum wage increase in the Kingdom’s garment industry to $180 per month in 2016. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-tells-ftu-push-180

Cambodia, VN to visit border

Cambodian and Vietnamese officials will visit Svay Rieng province next week as part of efforts to resolve ongoing border disputes, but the exclusion of journalists has sparked criticism over the negotiations’ lack of transparency. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-vn-visit-border

Horrific state of P Speu revealed

Beneath a tree in Phnom Penh’s remote Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre – a de facto prison used to indefinitely incarcerate some of the capital’s most vulnerable citizens – a woman yesterday chanted loudly before bursting into tears and then laughter. Like many others at the ...

Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/horrific-state-p-speu-revealed

CNRP activists arrested over Siem Reap protest

Two opposition activists in Siem Reap’s Bakong district were arrested yesterday on accusations of inciting villagers to protest a new committee to support boating tourism. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-activists-arrested-over-siem-reap-protest

Stop stadium plans, CNRP lawmakers ask

Three CNRP lawmakers have issued a letter urging the government to decline a request by tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group company to claim rights over a former sports stadium in Battambang province. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stop-stadium-plans-cnrp-lawmakers-ask

Fix funding shortfall: CNRP

Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy yesterday proposed the National Assembly increase the amount local authorities are allocated from the national budget, arguing that the current sum is insufficient.​ ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fix-funding-shortfall-cnrp

Thousands raised for CNRP TV

The Cambodia National Rescue Party reportedly raised nearly $35,000 in one day of fundraising to finance what party chief Sam Rainsy affirmed over the weekend will be an objective TV station, which will deal with issues such as border disputes, corruption and land grabs. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thousands-raised-cnrp-tv

MP ‘injured’ at border

More than a dozen people were injured in a clash yesterday afternoon, when two opposition party lawmakers led some 200 Cambodians to inspect the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers Real Camerin and Um Sam An yesterday led nearly 200 youths, ...

Meas Sokchea and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mp-injured-border

Rainsy: CNRP now has Vietnam border map

The CNRP is now in possession of the constitutionally mandated map of the Cambodia-Vietnam border and will soon start using it with GPS technology to confirm whether border posts have been correctly placed along the 1,228-km frontier, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Sunday. CNRP lawmakers have ...

Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-now-has-vietnam-border-map-rainsy-says-86738/

CNRP demands new border committee, treaty’s cancellation

Following weeks of trips to disputed sites along the country’s border with Vietnam, the opposition CNRP issued an official statement on Thursday demanding that the government overhaul its border commission, cancel a 2005 border treaty and bring a case against Vietnam to international court. Long a ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-demands-new-border-committee-treatys-cancellation-86724/

Rent law heads to assembly

The draft of a rent-control law aimed at regulating rising housing prices and sudden rental hikes for low-income workers and students is expected to go before the National Assembly by the end of June, officials from the bipartisan working group in charge of the law ...

Sarah Taguiam and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rent-law-heads-assembly

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