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Sam Rainsy To Call Sar Kheng Over Negotiations
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy planned to call CPP interior Minister Sar Kheng today to discuss restarting negotiations between the two parties. Mr. Rainsy said that he hoped Mr. Kheng would clarify whether the CPP is conditionally open to further negotiations.
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Evictees, Activists Scuffle With Police in Front of City Hall
Evictees and anti-eviction activists yesterday briefly scuffle with police and security guards after cutting off traffic in front of Phnom Penh City Hall to demands that businesswoman Suy Sophan compensate them for homes that were bulldozed early last year.
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Prosecutors Rest Their Case Against Khmer Rouge Leaders
Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday rested their case against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, telling the Trial Chamber judges that a fair verdict would see the pair put behind bars for life.
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NGOs Say Women Could Help End the Political Impasse
More women should be part of any future high-level negotiations between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP to resolve the current political deadlock, a coalition of women’s rights NGOs said yesterday in a statement.
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Preah Vihear Families Ordered to Make Way for Bulldozers
Preah Vihear deputy governor Kan Vuthy yesterday told 50 representatives of families from Rovieng district involved in a land dispute with authorities that despite their protests, the land they live on will be cleared today to make way for a social land concession, an official said.
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CNRP Warns Contracts Signed With CPP Could Be Canceled
The opposition CNRP released a letter yesterday warning investment firms, foreign nations and international institutions that if the part forms a government, it will review and potentially annul any agreement made with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP during the current mandate.
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Disenfranchised Votes Point to Potentially Different Election Result
The Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) yesterday shared initial finding from a survey carried out carried out across form country in the wake of July’s national election, which found that one-third of the country’s eligible voters could not vote on election day.
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Index Shows Little Progress on Gender Equality
Cambodia has media little progress on gender equality and is the lowest-rank country in the region, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2013 Gender Gap Index released Friday, slipping a place from last year to rank 104 out of 136 countries.
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Rainsy Lays Out Demands for Next Round of Negotiations
Opposition Sam Rainsy yesterday said that the CNRP would formally appeal to the CPP this week to resume negotiations to end the ongoing political deadlock, but said that the CPP would have to meet the CNRP’s conditions for a new round of talks.
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Traditionally Pro-CPP Media new Market With CNRP
In the prelude to and direct aftermath of July’s national election, local Khmer-language media largely ignored the opposition’s growing street rallies and demonstrations. But during the three days of protest last week, the CNRP was front-page news in all of the major Khmer-language newspapers.
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Try Pheap Bulldozers Return to Clear Land, Stopped by Protesters
About 100 villagers in Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district on Saturday turned out in protest for the second time this week to prevent a bulldozer that belongs to well-known businessman Try Pheap from clearing their land next to his rubber plantation, local officials and resident said.
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Cambodia protest draws big crowd
PHNOM PENH - About 20,000 Cambodian opposition supporters turned out Friday in a new show of strength as they wrapped up three days of protests against Prime Minister Hun Sen's disputed election win. Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the demonstration "shows the people are not happy" with the CPP.
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Protesters Stop Try Pheap Tractor From Clearing Land in Preah Vihear
More than 100 people yesterday protested and stopped a bulldozer belonging to businessman Try Pheap from clearing their land next to a rubber plantation he owns in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district, villagers and local officials said.
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Cambodian-Americans Warn of Dangers of Political Deadlock
WASHINGTON DC - As demonstrations continued in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-Americans in Washington said this week that the international community can no longer stay out of Cambodian affairs, lest the political deadlock turn to violence.
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Radio Host Calls On Pupils to Denounce Teachers Talking Politics
The owner of the popular local ABC radio station yesterday urged university students to call his station and inform listeners if their teachers discuss information that could be deemed critical of the government.
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Cambodian Opposition Rally's Last Day Draws 20,000
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — About 20,000 Cambodian opposition supporters on Friday wrapped up a three-day demonstration to petition foreign embassies and the U.N. for intervention in what they claim was a rigged election. Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that intervention from abroad was "not going to happen." Moreover, he said, seeking outside help was counterproductive to building democracy from within Cambodia.
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Lawyer Tell KR Tribunal Judges to Acquit Nuon Chea
Lawyer for Nuon Chea yesterday told judges at the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal that “the only avenue forward” for the regime’s fomer deputy secretary is an acquittal, due to weak evidence that fails to implicate him and a trial that the defense deems to have been inherently unfair.
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CNRP Delivers Petition Three Embassies
Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha yesterday led more than 1,000 supporters to delivers petition to the French, British and U.S. embassies before settling in for a second day of demonstration at Freedom Park, where crowds were significantly smaller than on Wednesday, peaking at about 7,000 in the early evening.
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CPP Shift Strategy Toward Opposition Protesters
Bellicose warning of suppression by riot and military police in the lead-up to the opposition CNRP’s three days of marching through the streets of Phnom Penh left many predicting clashes that would lay bare the CPP government’s authoritarian tendencies.
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Protesters Move Largely Unhindered by Police Checkpoints
Despite the return of police checkpoints around Phnom Penh yesterday morning ahead of the opposition CNRP’s latest protest against July’s still-disputed national election, most demonstrators coming in from the provinces were let through.
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