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Few Former CNRP Lawmakers, Councilors Join Candlelight After Ban Lifts
A slow trickle of former opposition CNRP members are making their way to the Candlelight Party ahead of the 2023 national elections, weeks after a five-year political ban was lifted.
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CHRC holds workshop on UN human rights recommendations
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) on November 28 held a workshop on the dissemination, monitoring and promotion of the implementation of the recommendations made by the UN Commission on Human Rights, which monitors Cambodia's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of State Parties.
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Falling Back Into Poverty Meant Sharing One Egg Among Family of Four
Kuong Sophat, 60, lives along Phnom Penh’s railway line in Daun Penh district. She rents a small wooden house with her 35-year-old daughter and two grandchildren. Covid-19 hit the family hard in 2020 — and two years later, Sophat said the struggles hadn’t gone away.
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Time for action on EU-ASEAN shared connectivity goals
As defined by the European Commission, connectivity may include networking in everything from transportation, energy and the digital world as well as more human links such as education, tourism and research and innovation.
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Another Ex-CNRP Member Asks to Join CPP
In a letter dated Nov. 28, Dam Seth said the reason was that Hun Sen had good and right policies. He said he asked to join the CPP sincerely without any intimidation or coercion.
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UYFC chooses Hun Manet to fill ‘honorary’ president role
The Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC) held a November 27 nationwide general assembly which voted in Lieutenant General Hun Manet as their first-ever honorary president.
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Police search for child rapist after young girl attacked
Police have launched a manhunt for a violent sexual deviant who handcuffed, raped and strangled a 9 year old girl
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Ending the mischief: PM forming movement to stop Rainsy’s destructive politics
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced he would launch a movement to crack down on the destructive politics of former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and reiterated that he would not sign a pardon for the latter a third time.
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Hun Sen Says Meals With Khmer Rouge More Palatable Than With Rainsy
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Khmer Rouge officials — some of whom have been convicted of genocide — were easy to have a meal with, something that he would never do with exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy.
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Anti-Terrorism Investigations Read Out at Mu Sochua Mass Trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court is trying 37 former CNRP leaders, members and activists for alleged plotting for allegedly participating in Sochua’s attempt to return to Cambodia in early 2021. The former CNRP vice president was attempting to attend a different mass trial involving her and other senior party officials.
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Hun Sen: Distance from ‘treason convict’ Rainsy
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on all Cambodians to distance themselves from Sam Rainsy – the former president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) whom he dubbed a traitor – or face legal action.
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PM Calls for Voter Registration Support
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged political parties to ask their supporters to register for the upcoming national election, while defending the neutrality of the National Election Committee (NEC).
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Kem Ley’s Brother Appointed Government Adviser
Seven are departed senior officials of the Cambodia National Love Party who resigned from their positions in the minor opposition party to take up Telecommunications Ministry jobs, urging their supporters to back the ruling CPP and leaving the party in limbo.
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Hun Sen threatens to dissolve political parties that associate with Sam Rainsy
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday said he would dissolve any political party that dares to associate with Sam Rainsy, a threat that opposition party officials believe indicates he is still afraid of the exiled opposition leader’s political clout ahead of the 2023 general elections.
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Wake up call: Boating tragedy prompts rethink on students’ travel to school
The tragic loss of lives of eleven students, who drowned on a journey back home from an evening class when the boat they were on sank, not only struck Cambodia with one of the greatest calamity involving children in the post-Khmer Rouge era but also nudged the government into rethinking about the safety of the underprivileged children who have to put their lives on the line for the sake of education opportunities.
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New safety rules after tragic sinking in southeast Kandal
Following the October 13 tragic ferry sinking incident that claimed the lives of 11 students, authorities in southeastern Kandal province’s Loeuk Dek district have issued an emergency order to all waterway service providers to have life jackets on board for all passengers at all times.
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Women in the 21st Century: Facing Old Attitudes in a New Era
“We feel we are never right,” she said. “That’s why I picked “Sampot Sor” (white skirt) as title for the exhibition. It’s part of a proverb in Cambodia…When you have a black spot on it, it’s forever.”
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Mass Trial Continues With Questioning of Jailed CNRP Activists
The court is trying 37 senior CNRP leaders and activists in the fifth mass trial investigated by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, alleging that support for Sochua’s planned return fell under the charges of plotting and incitement. The four prior mass trials were linked to opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s attempted return to Cambodia in 2019 and verdicts have been delivered in three of the cases.
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Interior Ministry Officials Deflect on Compound Owners, Online Scams in Marathon Briefing
A 5.5-hour Interior Ministry press conference reviewed recent raids against the forced labor of foreign nationals, but officials continued to sidestep from naming compound owners and saying whether the syndicates perpetrated global scams.
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Dith Tina Approved as New Agriculture Minister
The ruling CPP-controlled National Assembly on Friday unanimously approved Dith Tina, formerly a secretary of state at the Energy Ministry, as the new Agriculture Minister, less than a week after Veng Sakhon was removed from the position.
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