Cambodia News: Mam Sonando

At the capital's Peace Palace on Monday, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sokhon led a delegation at a meeting with the Supreme ...

Senators approve an amendment to the Law on Political Parties, bringing banned members one step closer to the political arena.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Cambodia's Beehive Social Democratic Party (BSDP) has reelected its founder Mam Sonando as party president in the lead up to general elections widely seen ...

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 ...

Cambodia's government on Tuesday threatened to arrest the daughter of jailed opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) chief Kem Sokha if she ...

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 ...

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 ...

Return To War. Twenty years ago next week, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen toppled First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh after days of factional ...

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 ...

If just seven of the 151 ballots cast for the Grassroots Democracy Party in Taing Yab commune had gone for the CNRP, another commune would have slid into ...

The Municipal Election Committee Secretariat is to meet with representatives of four small political parties to discuss how they plan to campaign for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indigenous people in Mondolkiri province have joined together to form a new political party to give a voice to the country's minority groups, a party official said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few thousand opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday as the party held its largest public ...

A Cambodian riot police officer avoids a gas grenade as police fire grenades to disperse protesters led by Cambodia's most prominent human rights defender ...

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.

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 ...

Nguyen Van Hai – a Vietnamese blogger and a founding member of the Free Journalists Club – is reportedly in a very weak state after his hunger strike entered ...

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 ...

His Beehive Radio is one of the few remaining independent broadcasters in Cambodia and airs programming from the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio ...

BROMA VILLAGE, Kratie Province – In a barren field dotted with the odd corn shoot, the grave of Heng Chantha lies beneath a small, metal roof. The 14-year-old ...

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.

(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 ...

This picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows army soldiers celebrating the successful launch of the Unha-3 rocket, ...

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

With the added attention from the world on the US president's visit, Cambodia is taking on intense scrutiny over its human rights record.

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 ...