Cambodia News: Mam Sonando

The Grassroots Democracy Party decides not to join the Supreme Consultative Council.

Firebrand political analyst Kim Sok slams the Supreme Consultative Council.

A week in photos from award winning Fairfax photographers for the week ending August 2, 2018.

Sixty-five-year-old Bou Sokhom has a lot to lose. A mother of five and grandmother of 11, she doesn't fit the template of a firebrand activist.

Strings of numbers that appear in social media comments are portentous in Cambodia's stifled political climate.

Some 270000 supporters of competing political parties will participate in rallies in Phnom Penh on Friday when campaigning ends – the largest such gathering ...

Cambodia's upcoming general election on July 29 looks set to be its most controversial since its first national election in 1993.

Heir to the ancient Khmer Empire, modern-day Cambodia is benefiting from two decades of relative stability, having endured civil war and the murderous rule of ...

The Cambodia Indigenous People's Democracy Party vows to defend rights of minorities and protect their lands. Plang Sin, president of the Cambodia ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summonsed eight people as witnesses to testify at the trial of Kem Sokha for alleged “treason”. The warrants were signed ...

Several of the 20 political parties registered to contest in the July 29 national elections denied on Thursday that they were “created” purely to add legitimacy to ...

The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority yesterday said Cambodia will be mine-free by 2025.

Hundreds of Kratie villagers are discharged from hospital after recovering from a poisoning incident that killed 13 people.

Authorities jailed Mam Sonando three times over the past 15 years as he pushed for social changes through his popular radio station, demonstrations and also ...

Registration for political parties to compete in the coming national elections kicked off on Monday, with Prime Minister Hun Sen repeating there will be no ...

The National Election Committee today begins registering candidates from political parties to contest the upcoming national election while former opposition ...

The National Election Committee warns that anyone calling for a boycott of the upcoming national election would be punished.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union has called on the ruling CPP to allow former opposition CNRP lawmakers to retake their seats and for the party to be reinstated ...

Outspoken radio host Mam Sonando is once again at the helm of the Beehive Social Democratic Party, after he was voted back in as president at the party's ...

He claims his return to politics has nothing to do with an invitation from Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Clashes between villagers protesting a land dispute and security officers erupted in gunfire yesterday in Kratie province, with a rights official initially reporting six ...

Veteran political figure Mam Sonando has signalled he will once again take the reins of his Beehive Social Democratic Party just months out from Cambodia's ...

Cambodian People's Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former ...

Sean Pengse, a former government minister under the Lon Nol regime and an outspoken critic on Cambodia's border issues with Vietnam, has died in France at ...

In a still from a video, Kem Monovithya speaks to US lawmakers at a subcommittee hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the U.S. House of ...

A water taxi system linking Prek Pnov, the northern part of Phnom Penh, to Takhmao city in Kandal province via the Mekong River, is expected to start in April as ...

A number of Cambodian judges have been handed promotions after securing controversial rulings in cases that directly benefit the ruling party, sparking the ire ...

Cabinet chief Phat Sikan was elected as the new president of the Beehive Social Democratic Party after the party held a congress on Sunday in Kandal province ...

The Beehive Social Democratic Party will convene next week to pick its third president in four months after party leader Houn Phannary resigned due to ...

The National Military Police have been put on alert and are ready to intervene to defend the legal government and prevent any attempts at a “colour revolution” ...

Two local radio stations were yesterday ordered to stop their broadcasts of independent news outlets Radio Free Asia and Voice of America, with an Information ...

All radio stations carrying Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) outside of Phnom Penh have been closed by the Information Ministry, spokesmen ...

The Ministry of Information has ordered the closure of a radio station that broadcasts *content* from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, as well as ...

Information Ministry officials on Tuesday gave contradictory accounts on whether the government is considering new rules barring radio stations from carrying ...

Mam Sonando blamed a lack of funding for the party's failure but added that he would continue to be active in politics by giving lectures and making radio ...

Political firebrand and thrice-imprisoned radio broadcaster Mam Sonando on Friday resigned as president of the party he founded, the Beehive Social ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has invited garment workers to a meeting on August 20 to check their working and living conditions. The meeting will take place at ...

Prominent radio host and government critic Mam Sonando resigned on Friday from the Beehive Social Democratic Party he founded, saying the disappointing ...

A soldier loyal to Second Prime Minister Hun Sen armed with a B-40 rocket launcher prepares to move toward the front- line of fighting in the western area of ...

The Ministry of Interior is to take legal action against the president of the League for Democracy Party, for allegedly insulting Khmer nationality and the monarchy ...

The amount of money political parties spent on the campaign trail ahead of yesterday's nationwide commune elections varied wildly, with observers and party ...

He's back. After four years in self-imposed exile, Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy landed in Phnom Penh last Friday to throngs of flag-waving fans ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) talking to Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha (L) during a parliamentary meeting at the National Assembly in ...

HONG KONG — In a sign that President Trump's criticism of the news media may be having a ripple effect overseas, a government spokesman in Cambodia has ...

In Cambodia, those detained on controversial charges see themselves as pawns in a repetitive game of political chess. Will the rules stay the same? Nay Vanda ...

When 53 opposition lawmakers wrote to King Norodom Sihamoni last month asking him to intervene to end increasingly grave political repression in Cambodia, ...

A new political party is promising to find jobs for youth across the Kingdom if the party wins the elections in 2017 and 2018. The president of the Cambodian ...

Sourn Serey Ratha, the formerly self-exiled president of the new Khmer Power Party, said yesterday that he was preparing to sue Foreign Minister Hor Namhong ...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday released evidence they say clears imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, presenting a webpage ...

Former analyst and researcher Kem Ley will register a new national-level political party with the Ministry of Interior in August to serve as a model of pluralistic ...

The owner of an independent radio station engulfed in a bitter dispute with a number of his employees blamed the conflict on a prominent union leader on Friday ...

Until just a few years ago, Boeung Kak Lake in the capital city of Phnom Penh was a prime tourist location and home to thousands of Cambodians. Today, it...

The Apsara Authority, which manages the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap City, on Wednesday rejected claims made by popular opposition radio host ...

This morning, 17-year-old Pakistani youth activist Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee did the right thing by recognizing this ...

An independent judiciary that is free of corruption and external influence is a vital component of a healthy democracy. Yet Transparency International ...

A Phnom Penh court on Thursday agreed to a prosecution request to consider filing more serious charges against a U.S.-based Cambodia dissident accused of ...

More than a hundred monks and students from Vietnam's Khmer Krom ethnic minority living in Cambodia clashed Tuesday with riot police and security guards in ...

Riot police in the Cambodian capital on Monday violently dispersed more than 100 people demanding a television license for independent Beehive Radio, ...

Witnesses say at least nine people were injured when protesters clashed with police armed with shields, electric batons and smoke canisters.

The parties must begin talks before Cambodia passes the point of no return. But how to make that happen?

Tep Bopha Prasidh, a wealthy businesswoman and wife of Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh, has been anointed with the sought-after royal title of oknha.

A Cambodian overseas opposition group has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of “crimes against ...

Updated at 4:00 p.m. ET on 2013-06-28. The Cambodian government has ordered local radio stations to stop broadcasting foreign programs ahead of general ...

By Pou Sovachana. “When people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty,” said former U.S. President ...

Press freedom took a knock in Hong Kong, Cambodia, and Thailand while Burma chalked up the best gains for media reforms in Asia over the past year, says an ...

Chut Wutty was one of Cambodia's most vocal activists. He was murdered by military police while investigating illegal logging and land grabs.

An appeals court in Cambodia has cut the jail term of a prominent journalist and land rights campaigner. Mam Sonando, who runs a radio station, was jailed last ...

Cambodia is on the road to authoritarianism and its political processes are backsliding, an election monitoring group said Tuesday ahead of a national election ...

Cambodia's Appeals Court is set to announce a decision next week on the fate of veteran journalist Mam Sonando after prosecutors dropped two of the most ...

(London) – Cambodia's human rights situation deteriorated in 2012 with increased violence and scripted trials against political and civil society activists, Human ...

America's embargo on Cuba began its 53rd year this fall, and it's hard to find anyone who thinks it's working. Even Cuban-Americans who hate the Castro ...

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Human rights in Cambodia are in a dire state, and China holds a lion's share of blame, argues Joel Brinkley.

As United States President Barack Obama's made history in Phnom Penh today, becoming the first sitting American president to visit Cambodia, his motorcade ...

Some of the U.S.' most senior lawmakers are urging Barack Obama to speak out on what they called Cambodia's deteriorating human rights situation when the ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—In 1979, Phan Chhunreth ventured to Phnom Penh after toiling for nearly four years in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. Pol Pot's ...

The axe-bashed body of a Cambodian journalist who uncovered illegal logging activity was found dead in the trunk of his car Tuesday, less than one week after ...