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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday repeated allegations that Foreign Minister Hor Namhong was responsible for collaborating with his Khmer Rouge captors at the Boeung Trabek prison camp between 1975 and 1979, leading to the murder and torture of numerous inmates.Rainsy, who is in the Philippines, ...

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, for whom an arrest warrant was issued last week, will not be returning to Phnom Penh until a deal is struck to secure his freedom. ...

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Thursday dismissed claims that a court decision to issue an arrest warrant for Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy was politically motivated and said his lawyer had acted alone in pursuing a defamation case against the opposition ...

Cambodia’s opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, is accusing the ruling party of carrying out a constitutional coup after a local court issued an arrest warrant for him and a parliamentary committee stripped him of his seat. In a message published on Facebook, the politician said the ...

Speculation continues over if and when Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy will return to Cambodia, where he now faces a two-year prison term, as grassroots opposition members yesterday expressed “disappointment” at their leader’s continued absence.CNRP officials will meet today in Phnom Penh to ...

The victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s movement in Burma after years of military rule and repression is already starting to unnerve autocrats nearby. Last week, Sam Rainsy, an opposition leader in Cambodia, declared that the democrats’ “resounding” victory “has created panic among the last ...

Turning his back on a public promise, opposition leader Sam Rainsy canceled his scheduled return to Cambodia on Monday night and said he would instead return “in the next few days,” refusing to guarantee that his time abroad would not stretch into weeks or months. ...

Sam Rainsy is no longer a lawmaker.The decision to strip the opposition leader of his lawmaker status and immunity followed a morning meeting of the National Assembly’s permanent committee that was boycotted by the Cambodia National Rescue Party. ...

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy was stripped of his lawmaker status and parliamentary immunity Monday, paving the way for his arrest in connection with a defamation case that the opposition says is politically motivated. The prospect of Rainsy’s arrest has sparked fears of unrest in ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday urged Cambodians living in South Korea to attend CNRP events being held in Seoul this weekend, despite a warning from the Cambodian ambassador on Thurs­­day that people should stay away. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy is scheduled to return to Phnom Penh tonight where he could face arrest and a two-year prison sentence over a defamation case dating back to 2008, his party said yesterday.Eng Chhay Eang, a spokesman of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, ...

Citing a seven-year-old defamation case, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy, forcing the travelling Cambodia National Rescue Party president to choose whether to stay abroad or return and face a two-year prison term.The warrant, stemming from ...

A Cambodian court on Friday ordered the arrest of an opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, in connection with a seven-year-old defamation case, and his party accused Prime Minister Hun Sen of being behind the move to gain the upper hand in their political fight. ...

Cambodia’s ambassador to South Korea has again come under fire for telling Cambodian expatriates they face “arrest and deportation” if they attend an opposition party event this weekend in Seoul.In a Facebook post yesterday, Suth Dina told Cambodian workers and students in Korea to shun ...

Cambodia’s opposition leader yesterday lauded the success of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Myanmar’s historic election, an outcome he said will help pave the way for his party’s own electoral victory.In a post on his Facebook page, Cambodia National ...

Recent politic rhetoric in Cambodia and back-pedaling by some political leaders brings to mind a classic from the late Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror”. Below, I have inserted one paragraph from his lyrics to put things in perspective before I ramble on the about ...

A few hundred CNRP supporters welcomed opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha back to Cambodia last night after a week of political turmoil in which two lawmakers were beaten by pro-government thugs and Mr. Sokha was ousted from his parliamentary leadership position. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

During a closed-door meeting on Monday, Defense Minister Tea Banh told a Vietnamese counterpart of the CPP’s success in suppressing an opposition campaign to highlight border incursions by Vietnam and urged Hanoi to help ensure that the issue does not re-emerge. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy denied Wednesday that he had plans to meet Prince Norodom Ranariddh to discuss the CNRP joining with Funcinpec against the CPP ahead of the 2018 national election. ...

The Cambodian Higher Education Association released a statement on Saturday defending its members against claims made last week by CNRP President Sam Rainsy, who criticized the quality of Cambodia’s postsecondary education system. ...