With less than 90 days to the commune elections, 17 political parties this weekend registered candidates to vie for critical commune chief positions across the country — though some alleged threats during the process.
With a little over 90 days to the commune elections, political parties began registering candidates on Friday to run in the 1,652 communes across the country.
A businesswoman has sued a district governor in Siem Reap province for violating a court decision and allegedly beginning to encroach on a 200-hectare plot of land.
According to a letter circulating on social media, Ung Sovanna, former deputy head of the CNRP’s womens’ movement, has requested political amnesty. Her husband, former CNRP lawmaker Men Sothavarin, said the move took him by surprise.
The Grassroots Democratic Party has promised to cut down the number of ministries and bureaucrats to cut costs in a new policy document released ahead of the commune elections.
CNRP leader Kem Sokha’s defense team argued in court on Tuesday that the prosecution’s repeated use of video evidence did not prove the charge of treason and was only prolonging the trial.
Poipet health workers are accusing the director of a referral hospital of siphoning money meant for Covid-19 salaries by listing employee names as falsely working on Covid-19 treatment.
Kem Sokha, Cambodia’s ex-opposition leader still awaiting the resumption of his treason trial, has put his six-bedroom Toul Kork district home on the market for $2.4 million.
The royalist Funcinpec party fired three senior officials after they filed a complaint with the Interior Ministry alleging that a former wife of party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh took and misused the party seal.
While some CNRP-linked minor parties are eyeing consolidation to challenge the ruling party in the upcoming elections, one such party is choosing to try its own luck rather than joining the path of others.
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