Elections

Officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party say they will continue political talks, despite last week’s assault of two opposition lawmakers and the removal of Rescue Party Vice President Kem Sokha from his senior post at the National ...

Political analysts across the Kingdom are buzzing about the ramifications of the decision the National Assembly made last week to remove Kem Sokha, deputy president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), as deputy president of the legislative body. ...

The National Election Committee yesterday kicked off the 15-day trial of its new electronic voting registration system at 25 stations throughout the country.NEC spokesman Hang Puthea said that the registration test plans to enrol about 30,000 people, though those people will have to register again ...

Lawmakers at a CPP-only session of the National Assembly voted yesterday to approve a new law on commune elections and an updated set of internal rules for the Assembly. ...

Ruling party lawmakers removed deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha as first vice president of the National Assembly on Friday morning in a legally dubious vote that was boycotted by the CNRP. ...

The “culture of dialogue” between Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will be over unless Mr. Rainsy issues a public apology for describing the premier as a fascist, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Thursday. ...

As observers accused the CPP of orchestrating Monday’s savage beating of two opposition lawmakers, images emerged Tuesday of a senior military commander rallying troops to support calls to oust Kem Sokha as the National Assembly’s vice president. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy have clashed over the issue of Cambodians living overseas being able to vote in elections. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday warned CNRP President Sam Rainsy that he could be prosecuted over the same forgery and incitement case that led to the arrest of opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour in August. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has slammed the opposition for claiming the government forced a group of Cambodian exchange students studying in France to meet with him.A Cambodian radio station in France said the Cambodian embassy was forcing students to meet the prime minister at Maison ...

The cracks in Mam Sonando’s recently revived Beehive Social Democratic Party are widening, with a lawsuit against the party president, alleging he embezzled funds, slated to be filed at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today on behalf of the party’s own leadership. ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha on Saturday drew a positive message from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent warnings that an opposition election victory could lead to civil war, trumpeting it as acceptance from the premier that he could be defeated. Among the ...

Eleven members and department directors of the National Election Committee (NEC) will depart Cambodia departed today to attend a 10-day training course on election in Republic of Korea. ...

Angry at a new Facebook post by an opposition party spokesman and another CNRP lawmaker’s mention of the 1980s government’s deadly “K5 Plan,” Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday used the floor of the National Assembly to warn opposition lawmakers to be more civil. ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power. Hun Sen’s Facebook, which how has 1.2 ...

A future CNRP government would face a powerful backlash if it attempted to replace CPP loyalists Pol Saroeun and Neth Savoeun as the commanders of the military and national police, Prime Minister Hun Sen warned Monday. ...

Almost 100 opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters and several dozen members of the Royalist Funcinpec Party in Svay Chek district, Banteay Meanchey province, defected yesterday to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Among them were provincial and village-level leaders. ...

Hun Sen’s comments come after Sam Rainsy criticized the administration and its issuance of graduation certificates that are often useless. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said here this morning at a graduation ceremony that in the democratic countries, power cannot be transferred from a father to his child, according to the state news agency-AKP.   ...

As Prime Minister Hun Sen ages, more and more talk is surfacing of his sons taking his mantle and leading the country into the future. Two were in the spotlight this past week as they bolster their credentials for their eventual rise to the top ...

Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights – voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in Thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the ...

Acting opposition leader Kem Sokha told supporters over the weekend that they must identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Cambodian People’s Party if they hope to claim victory in the 2018 election, and called on voters to keep a watchful eye when they go ...

Oddar Meanchey provincial police chief Men Ly said yesterday he will launch an investigation into the burning of an opposition CNRP sign during a protest in Samraong City on Friday led by a defector to the ruling CPP. ...

At events marking the third anniversary of King Norodom Sihanouk’s death Thursday, deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and Prince Norodom Ranariddh provided differing opinions about reports suggesting that the CNRP and Funcinpec are considering a merger. ...