Politics
Mu Sochua attempts to fly to Cambodia, in a photo posted to her Facebook page on January 15, 2021.

Court Announces 37 CNRP Defendants in This Week’s Mass Trial

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will this week try 37 CNRP leaders, former lawmakers, party activists and supporters for alleged plotting against the state, marking the fifth mass trial the court has initiated against members of the dissolved political opposition.

Khem Veasna with LDP supporters at his Phnom Kulen plantation in Siem Reap, in a photograph posted to Veasna's Facebook page on September 7, 2022.

Workers Who Left Korea to Escape End of World Begin to Return

Cambodian workers who left their jobs in South Korea in fear of politician Khem Veasna’s prophecy that the world would end in flooding have started to return, hoping to get their old jobs back, a Cambodian association there says.

Kem Sokha outside the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on September 7, 2022. (Kem Sokha’s Facebook page)

Prosecution, Judges Link CNRP, Sokha to Veng Sreng Violence

Prosecutors and judges in the Kem Sokha treason trial looked to link senior CNRP leadership to the violence during garment worker protests in 2014, though most of the time they linked Sam Rainsy or Mu Sochua to the violence, not Sokha.