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Hun Sen’s comments draw criticism from Cambodian rights groups

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s public use of derogatory terms when discussing an unnamed woman accused of injuring a security guard after allegedly kicking him prompted rebukes from rights groups in the country on Monday. ...

Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/hun-sens-comments-draw-criticism-from-cambodian-rights-groups-08032015155819.html

In letter to lawmakers, PM says border work on track

Responding to 12 opposition lawmakers who issued a letter asking the government to bring a case against Vietnam to the International Court of Justice over its alleged border incursions, Prime Minister Hun Sen this week said his administration was already doing fine demarcating its eastern ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-letter-to-lawmakers-pm-says-border-work-on-track-90030/

In praise of RCAF Inc

Cambodia’s defence minister lauded a decade of corporate sponsorship of the country’s military, which he said had enabled underfunded units to acquire weapons with the backing of affluent supporters.Prime Minister Hun Sen’s policy on the relationship between Cambodia’s powerful tycoons – known as oknhas – ...

Vong Sokheng and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/praise-rcaf-inc

Chhouk Bandith's victims see hope in Sok Bun arrest

Three factory workers shot more than three years ago by a town governor who remains at large have come to Phnom Penh to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to take action in their case, given the recent success of the premier’s call to arrest a ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chhouk-bandiths-victims-see-hope-sok-bun-arrest

No deal for jailed 'insurrection' activists: Cambodia PM

Cambodia’s strongman premier Monday brushed off recent criticism over a string of lengthy jail sentences handed to opposition activists, adding that there would be no political deal for their release.​ ...

Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/635980/no-deal-for-jailed-insurrection-activists-cambodia-pm

Border talks with King

King Norodom Sihamoni may soon intervene in the ongoing dispute over border issues between the government and opposition by calling their leaders to a meeting, according to former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh. ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-talks-king

PM hosts mass meeting of armed forces

Some 5,000 security personnel were called to the headquarters of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit in Kandal province on Thursday, where the premier said they must protect Cambodia’s territorial integrity, according to a number of officials in attendance. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-hosts-mass-meeting-of-armed-forces-89310/

Lawmaker asks PM for probe of Try Pheap’s SEZ

CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An sent a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday asking for an investigation of Try Pheap’s Special Economic Zone in Ratanakkiri province, saying that the timber magnate is misusing the site to export illegally logged trees to Vietnam.   ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawmaker-asks-hun-sen-for-probe-of-try-pheaps-sez-89251/

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

In year since political accord, an awkward and uneasy truce

Emerging from a five-hour meeting in the Senate on this day last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy struck a pose remarkable for its warmth after a year of growing protests demanding that the long-serving premier step down. ...

Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-year-since-political-accord-an-awkward-and-uneasy-truce-89107/

PM calls constitution’s border map clause ‘mistake’

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday the framers of the 1993 Constitution made a mistake by specifying that the map developed by the French colonial authorities would be the only one legally valid for border demarcation. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-calls-constitutions-border-map-clause%E2%80%88mistake-88697/

Hun Sen denies loss of land to border encroachment

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that neither he nor his government has caused any loss of territory to bordering countries. His statement comes amid a diplomatic row with Vietnam, which has been working on ponds, a road and a military outpost in contested ...

Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-denies-loss-of-land-to-border-encroachment/2865171.html

Multiplying map requests from PM

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday wrote to three world leaders to request “cooperation” to secure copies of maps of Cambodia’s borders, which he said are held by the governments of France, the UK and the US. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/multiplying-map-requests-pm

Hun Sen asks France, UK, US for border maps

Prime Minister Hun Sen has written to French President Francois Hollande, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron to ask them to provide maps of Cambodia’s borders and experts to confirm that the government has demarcated the border legally. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-asks-france-uk-us-for-border-maps-88554/

Hun Sen asks western leaders to help resolve Cambodia’s border disputes

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen sent letters to the leaders of the three western countries on Wednesday asking to borrow a decades-old map to try to settle disputes over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam.The Cambodian leader sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama, French President ...

RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/hun-sen-asks-western-leaders-to-help-resolve-border-disputes-07152015160828.html

My dinner with Rainsy

In another effort to cement the so-called culture of dialogue between the two major parties, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy brought their families together on Saturday for what Rainsy billed as a “historic” meal during which they posed for selfies, while ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/my-dinner-rainsy

Assembly to approve​ NGO curb law today

Facing an opposition boycott and a European Union threat over foreign aid, the government plans to vote into law today a controversial draft law restricting NGOs. ...

Muny Sithyna and Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13213/assembly-to-approve-ngo-curb-law-today/

Hun Sen dismisses reports on Don Sahong dam construction

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed reports that Lao PDR has commenced construction of the giant 360MW Don Sahong Hydro Dam project. ...

T. Mohan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13211/hun-sen-dismisses-reports-on-don-sahong-dam-construction/

Japan becomes China’s business rival in Cambodia

Prime Minister Hun Sen returned Monday from a weekend in Japan that included a day-trip 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo to Yamaguchi Prefecture, home base of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. ...

James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12948/japan-becomes-china---s-business-rival-in-cambodia/

Cambodia's Hun Sen asks for UN map to help end domestic dispute over border with Vietnam

Hoping to settle internal arguments over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the U.N. on Monday for the loan of a map prepared decades ago by France to compare with maps currently used to demarcate the border. ...

Sek Bandith
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/map-07062015173648.html

Cambodia asks for original maps from UN to verify border line with Vietnam

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday requested all original maps deposited at the United Nations to verify the authenticity of maps the government is using to demarcate border line with its neighboring countries. ...

Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12922/cambodia-asks-for-original-maps-from-un-to-verify-border-line-with-vietnam/

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