The annual budgets of the country’s 1,646 communes will be increased to about $130,000 each beginning next year, Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced on Wednesday.
UPDATED 2:07 p.m. — The minor Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has urged the government to reveal the border agreement that Prime Minister Hun Sen signed with his Vietnamese counterpart last week, requesting greater transparency about the demarcation process.
At least 12 more supporters of the outlawed opposition CNRP have been charged since Saturday with “plotting” an attack over their support for exiled party leaders’ promised return to the country next month, with four of them arrested this week.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday ordered the deployment of the country’s armed forces ahead of exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s promised return on November 9.
Anyone who has “unintentionally” become involved in exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s planned homecoming next month can confess and be spared punishment, Prime Minister Hun Sen said.
Four more supporters of the banned opposition CNRP were charged for “plotting an attack” over their public backing of exiled CNRP leader Sam Rainsy’s planned return to Cambodia, which the government has branded a coup attempt.
Three more members of the outlawed opposition CNRP have been charged over their expressions of support for exiled party leader Sam Rainsy’s planned return, with one man arrested on Tuesday for “plotting an attack,” according to his wife and court documents.
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, has proposed a wager with exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy after Rainsy called Manet’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point a “second-class diploma.”
A former opposition commune chief’s arm was broken on Wednesday by unidentified, baton-wielding attackers in the second daylight assault of a CNRP supporter in Phnom Penh this week.
After almost 30 detentions and more than 150 summonses of opposition members and supporters this year, politicians and analysts are drumming up debate over the dangers facing the country.
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