Elections

The Kingdom’s fifth National Assembly is to open its second session today, more than six months after the opposition party boycotted the inauguration of parliament on September 23 and left 68 Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers to swear-in at the Royal Palace on their own. According to ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Monday that the CNRP will resume mass demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 2. The opposition will use the official campaign period for May 18 district, city and provincial council elections to circumvent a government ban ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ...

A few thousand opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday as the party held its largest public gathering in the capital since protesters were chased out of Freedom Park in early January. Although Prime Minister Hun Sen suggested in late February ...

The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) held a people’s congress at its headquarters here on Sunday after the government denied permission for the party to stage the rally at the Freedom Park. The congress, which was led by CNRP’s President Sam Rainsy and attended ...

Cambodia (AP) Cambodian authorities say they won’t permit the opposition to hold a gathering this Sunday at a park in the capital, retaining a ban on demonstrations imposed three months ago after political violence. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen used the opening ceremony of a dam in Pursat province Thursday to act out a scene of biting political satire by pouring scorn on promises from the opposition CNRP to simultaneously reduce food prices in markets, while increasing prices paid to ...

Cambodia on Friday issued an official letter to ban the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) from conducting a rally on Sunday afternoon at the capital’s Freedom Park. In a letter to the CNRP, Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong said”The Ministry of Interior does not ...

A government committee charged with assessing damage from the garment worker protests in December and January has put the value of the destruction at over $250,000. It places blame squarely on the opposition CNRP and a trio of union leaders. That committee’s report, released Thursday, ...

The opposition CNRP made another pitch for an end to free trade benefits for Cambodian sugar exports to the European Union at a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday with visiting European Parliament members, blaming the benefits for effectively subsidizing companies that are evicting poor ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has threatened action against the main opposition party if it pushes ahead with a planned mass demonstration in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday in defiance of a ban on public gatherings at the site. Blaming the Cambodian National Rescue ...

Opposition leader announced that Cambodia National Rescue Party will hold people congress on March 30 at the Freedom Park. ...

Cambodia’s main opposition party plans to resume mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government by holding a “people’s congress” in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday to gauge public feedback on stalled election reform negotiations. Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy said his ...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) is scheduled to hold a people’s congress on Sunday afternoon at the capital’s Freedom Park to consult with its supporters over current political situation, its President Sam Rainsy announced Wednesday. “We will meet with about 3,000 supporters on Sunday ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is prepared to call for more mass demonstrations if negotiations over election reform fail with the ruling party. Speaking to reporters from Australia, where he is traveling, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party said he was willing to ...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) were engaged in war of words, accusing each other for the failure of yesterday’s election reform talks. ...

The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has suspended its participation in election reform talks with the ruling party at the senior officials level, calling instead for a meeting between opposition chief Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen to break an eight-month stalemate. The ...

Cambodia’s opposition party on Monday called for a top meeting between its leader Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen over the post-election dispute after the two parties’ working group officials failed to reach agreements on electoral reforms.     “The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) would ...

Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy is appealing to the New Zealand Government to join calls for a re-run of last year’s elections in Cambodia, which he claims were rigged. “We are very grateful to the people and to the Government of New Zealand for their ...

Members of the CPP and CNRP’s Joint Committee for Election Reform will meet on Monday next week to resume election reform talk, according to senior official of ruling CPP. ...

A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) senior official has appealed to opposition leaders to let their lawmakers to fight with the CPP lawmakers who are waiting in the National Assembly. The opposition leaders recently reaffirmed the CNRP’s position that they would not join the National Assembly ...

A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) senior official has appealed to opposition leaders to let their lawmakers to fight with the CPP lawmakers who are waiting in the National Assembly. “I appealed to Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha to be brave, and free their 55 ‘roosters’ to ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is providing financial and material support to the beleaguered Funcinpec Party to cover its rent, electricity, transportation and general administration expenses, as well as offering political training to its younger members, senior leaders of the royalist party said Wednesday. Funcinpec was ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has been meeting with a number of Australian lawmakers in recent days, asking them to urge the Australian government to support his call for reform and a new election in Cambodia. But while the Cambodia National Rescue Party leader had announced that ...