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Cambodian Opposition Leaders Go Into Hiding Amid Protest Crackdown

Cambodia’s opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha went into hiding Saturday as the government stepped up its crackdown on protests against Prime Minister Hun Sen following deadly violence. A day after police shot dead four people during workers’ protests for higher wages, the government ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/clampdown-01042014123656.html

Cambodia's Opposition Launches Daily Protests to Force New Polls

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) launched a campaign of daily demonstrations beginning Sunday in a bid to force Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to call for a re-election following disputed July polls. CNRP President Sam Rainsy and other leaders declared at a rally attended ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/rally-12152013171658.html

Cambodian NGOs Call for Election Committee Selected By Neutral Body

Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the country’s polls, should be revamped with representatives picked by an independent panel in a transparent manner with the involvement of all stakeholders, a group of non-governmental organizations said in a report after investigating the latest disputed elections. The ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/committee-12132013175611.html

Cambodia Opposition Party To Demand Re-Election

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will push for a re-election if Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government continues to refuse calls for an independent probe into widespread irregularities in the July polls, the opposition party’s deputy president, Kem Sokha, said Tuesday. He warned that the ...

Radio Free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cnrp-11262013192513.html

Cambodian Unions Call for Doubling of Minimum Wage for Factory Workers

Four trade unions on Tuesday demanded that Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers raise the minimum wage of their workers and provide them with additional benefits, threatening a nationwide strike and demonstrations if they do not comply. In a joint letter to the Van Sou Ieng, president ...

Radio free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/wages-11262013151923.html

Rights Group Slams ‘Rampant Impunity’ in Cambodia

A Cambodian rights group said Wednesday that impunity is on the rise in Cambodia, hitting out at the authorities for failing to resolve a number of high-profile killings and bring the perpetrators to justice. Ahead of International Day to End Impunity on Saturday, the Cambodian ...

Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/impunity-11202013182832.html

Cambodian Villagers Demand Land Activist’s Release Ahead of Appeal

More than 200 villagers involved in three different land disputes gathered in front of Cambodia’s top court in the capital Tuesday to demand the release of jailed rights campaigner Yorm Bopha ahead of her final appeal against a criminal conviction later this week. Yorm Bopha’s impending ...

Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/appeal-11192013183435.html

Japan to Assist Cambodia With Election Reform

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to help Cambodia with electoral reforms, following a request by Prime Minister Hun Sen to send experts to the country ahead of future polls and amid an ongoing dispute over national elections held more than three months ago. The ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/japan-11182013183828.html

Rights Group Wants Abe to Press Cambodia on Poll Probe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who makes a visit to Phnom Penh this weekend, should leverage his country’s aid to pressure the Cambodian government to launch an independent probe into fraud and other irregularities in disputed elections, a rights group said Thursday. As head of the ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigation-11142013171238.html

Cambodia's Parliament to Question Polls Watchdog Over Reports

Cambodia’s parliament will question the director of a local election watchdog to determine whether the organization should “face consequences” for its claims of irregularities in recent national polls, a spokesman for the legislative body said Thursday. Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) chief ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/comfrel-11072013163622.html

Cambodian Opposition Lifts Conditions on Talks with Ruling Party

Cambodia’s opposition said Thursday it is prepared to hold talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party without any preconditions in a fresh bid to end a political deadlock three months after disputed national elections. The move signaled a shift by the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), which days earlier had said it ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-10312013180011.html

Cambodia’s Opposition Calls for Halt to Foreign Investment, Loans

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as the two sides remained stalled in talks in a deadlock over disputed national elections. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said in a public statement that it could not guarantee that any agreements made with Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investment-10292013173412.html

Cambodia’s Ruling, Opposition Parties Debate Prospects for Fresh Talks

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition are debating prospects of new talks aimed at ending their political deadlock three months after disputed national elections thrust the country into a crisis. But chances of a fresh meeting between the two sides following ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-10282013174112.html

International Support Growing for Cambodian Polls Probe: Sam Rainsy

growing behind his party’s call for an independent probe into claims of fraud and other irregularities in the country’s recent elections. Speaking in Washington following his visit to Europe, Sam Rainsy said that governments and parliamentarians in the European Union, the United States and several other ...

Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/probe-10172013183118.html

Phnom Penh Bans Cambodia Opposition’s Thumbprint Campaign

Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints  for a petition calling for U.N. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to collect at least 3 million ...

Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/petition-10092013174335.html

ILO Initiative Could Unravel Cambodia’s Garment Industry: Manufacturers

A move by the International Labour Organization to name and shame garment producers in Cambodia that flout workers’ rights and safety standards could damage the industry’s reputation and result in a drastic reduction in orders from buyers abroad, according to a senior manufacturing official. Last week, ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/initiative-10042013150820.html

Cambodian PM Claims Opposition Acknowledged Ruling Party Victory

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday threatened to release an audio recording in which opposition leader Sam Rainsy purportedly acknowledged a ruling party election victory during a meeting between the two leaders aimed at ending a political deadlock. Sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) ...

Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/recording-09262013165941.html

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វណ្ណ វិចារ
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/politics/first-na-meeting-09222013222449.html

Sam Rainsy Wants Ruling and Opposition Parties Declared Joint Winners

Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy called Friday for election officials to declare his party and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party joint victors in recent polls saying the move would be a first step toward resolving a deadlock over the disputed election. With the opposition Cambodia National ...

Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cnrp-09202013174129.html

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