Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Tuesday posted an unsigned letter to his Facebook page supporting any CPP decision on the party’s next prime ministerial candidate, but did not explicitly name Hun Sen’s son and heir apparent Hun Manet.
The activist was arrested during protests in 2020 against the arrest of unionist Rong Chhun, who was arrested for claiming Cambodia was ceding territory to Vietnam.
Direct flights from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines are allowed again, the Health Ministry announced over the weekend, though it is still unclear when flights will resume.
The Education Ministry has announced that schools of all levels will be reopened from November 1 with health precautions remaining in place, expanding on the reopening of high schools last month.
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.
Prime Minister Hun Sen did in fact enter a CNRP Zoom call uninvited last week, he said on his Facebook page Thursday, but only to remind the “traitors” that he would not negotiate with them and to stop insulting him.
Widely shared video and audio clips seemingly showing Prime Minister Hun Sen gatecrashing an opposition CNRP Zoom call to lecture the outlawed party are digital fabrications, a ruling party spokesperson said.
Two Svay Rieng land dispute representatives have been charged again for violating Covid-19 law; separately, Mondulkiri province indigenous families file a land clearance complaint against a Takhmao city resident.
A tuk-tuk driver has been arrested in Kandal province for allegedly distributing pamphlets to neighbors that contained death threats against Prime Minister Hun Sen, though his wife said he had mental issues and was not politically involved.
Two land dispute representatives have been fined about $1,000 each for Facebook posts showing a crowd of protesters in a Svay Rieng rice field, a gathering deemed by authorities to be a violation of Covid-19 measures.
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