Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Foreign Affairs Ministry and others this week continued to take issue with the question of whether the Vietnam-backed overthrow of
Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn told a visiting E.U. delegation assessing supposed political abuses and human rights violations in Cambodia to instead consider the country’s progress and development.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has not been afraid of making his feelings clear about U.S. pressure on Cambodia’s dire record on human rights and democracy.
At a muted ceremony on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, hundreds of Cambodian nationalists gathered Tuesday morning to mark 70 years since France’s cession of its Indochinese colony of Cochinchina to the newly proclaimed State of Vietnam.
The ruling party will strike down the nascent politicization of cold Khmer noodles by joining rumored opposition plans to mark June 9 as Num Banh
Prime Minister Hun Sen vowed he would refer to political rival Sam Rainsy only as “a dog” from now on.
A joint statement issued this morning by 85 NGOs, local community groups, trade unions and political observers called on citizens to “join forces” over a recent deterioration in Cambodia’s human rights environment.
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a press conference in Tokyo that he was expecting “a dog” living outside Cambodia to wage war against him in an attempt to overthrow his government.
Kampong Cham province police have denied ignoring the death in custody of Tith Rorn, a former election observer and son of a local opposition party official, whose battered body was returned to his family three days after his arrest in April.
Cambodia’s district and provincial administrative councils have a mandate under the law to “establish, promote and sustain democratic development.”
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