Cambodia News: Mu Sochua

The co-founder of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Sam Rainsy, has called on countries “that respect democratic ...

Cambodia's government on Tuesday defended its decision to hire a U.S. state lawmaker to lobby on behalf of its interests in Congress, amid a low point in ...

Five former CNRP politicians who recently had their ban on politics lifted yesterday defended their choice in seeking clemency, noting that it was necessary for ...

New arrest warrants for Cambodian opposition leaders show Hun Sen's commitment to political repression despite the threat of sanctions. The best chance at ...

A Cambodian court has issued arrest warrants for top political opposition leaders living abroad as they prepare to return to the country. Included are warrants for ...

The warrants were issued shortly after Sam Rainsy made a public statement pledging to return to Cambodia despite the threat of arrest.

NGO the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) on Monday released a statement condemning the arrest warrants filed last week by the Phnom ...

Bernard Krisher, an idealistic, driven journalist who founded Cambodia's first English-language daily newspaper and, as a philanthropist, established a hospital, ...

BANGKOK — A Cambodian court has issued arrest warrants for eight opposition leaders who fled abroad for safety but say they are now trying to return.

Phnom Penh Municipal Court last week issued multiple arrest warrants against former opposition leader Sam Rainsy and seven other people charged with ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued arrest warrants for eight high-ranking members of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party ...

A Cambodia court Monday issued warrants for the exiled leaders of the country's top opposition group after they started making plans to return.

International Women's Day affords an opportunity to reflect on the victories and ongoing struggles faced by women around the world. This year, there is much to ...

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has spent more than 18 month in detention as of Sunday, with other opposition leaders decrying his case as politically ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged the remaining 114 outlawed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) officials to act quickly, as the opportunity for ...

More than 100 former Cambodia National Rescue Party officials were banned from politics for five years in a Supreme Court decision in November 2017.

Hun Sen and other senior CPP officials have made threats prior to the July 2018 election that the opposition would be “destroyed” or “killed” if sanctions were ...

Last November, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to a wager with the exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy. Broadly speaking, the understanding was ...

Immigration officials have been ordered to arrest Sam Rainsy, the former leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, if he follows through on pledges to ...

The deputy president of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Mu Sochua, has written to the EU about alleged threats against ...

The 22nd Asean-EU Ministerial Meeting was held in Brussels to consider issues including trade, maritime security, combating terrorism, and migration.

Officials insist Thailand's former leader Yingluck Shinawatra hasn't been given a Cambodian passport. So how she used one to register a company in Hong ...

The permanent committee of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) held a meeting in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the US on ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday threatened to retaliate against the opposition if the European Union withdraws ...

Hun Sen warned workers that continuing to press for the bonuses could lead to the closure of two-thirds of garment factories in the country.

WITH King Norodom Sihamoni having signed off on the amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties, 40 banned Cambodia National Rescue Party ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, a longtime foe of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has vowed to return to the country next year.

Cambodia's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling to fine the acting president of the country's now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National ...

Self-exiled cofounder calls government decision a political maneuver but others see it as sign of genuine improvement.

The National Assembly, which will host its plenary session on Thursday, will debate the proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties, ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's parliament on Thursday amended the law to let banned politicians petition the government for a return to politics, which ...

Cambodia's parliament is reviewing a five-year ban on more than 100 members of the main opposition party, which could allow them to return to politics, ...

Former deputy leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Mu Sochua on Monday called for “reconciliation” between Cambodian politicians to solve ...

A year after the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), the fate of the former main opposition party remains unclear. While its senior ...

The international community has to pressure Cambodia to hold free and fair elections.

When a country has a strongman for a ruler, an army at his disposal, and control of the media, how can the people fight back? You go after the one thing he does ...

Season 2 of Distributed Dialogues has begun, and a general theme will be the connection of major, real-world problems to possible solutions using blockchain ...

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Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, according to a former ...

The European Union on Friday informed Cambodia that it will lose preferential trade status unless it makes “clear and demonstrable improvements” to its rights ...

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Mu Sochua said on Thursday that she was “chased” out of the European Parliament in Brussels last ...

A former senior CNRP official has slammed his former leader Sam Rainsy over an attempt to overtake the scattered opposition. Prince Sisowath Thomico, a ...

As one of the most prominent women in Cambodian politics, Mu Sochua has championed democratic values and human rights. Yet, in 2017 Sochua was ...

Cambodia's opposition leader has been released on bail after spending a year behind bars on charges broadly viewed as politically motivated.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's parliament on Wednesday held its first session since a July general election in which Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling ...

Nearly 12 months into his detention, former CNRP political opposition leader Kem Sokha was denied bail by the country's highest court for a fourth time.

Activists, opposition welcome royal pardon of award-winning land rights defender Tep Vanny after two years in prison.

Cambodia's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won all 125 parliamentary seats in a national election in July, electoral authorities said on Wednesday as ...

After a sham election and a ban on free media, Cambodia's new generation of tech-savvy youth still has social media — a powerful protest tool, opposition party ...

Cambodia held elections last month, but the outcome was never in doubt. Prime minister Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party (CPP) won with ease, ...

Cambodian strongman Hun Sen's supposed sweeping victory in the last weekend's heavily rigged general election is set to cement the role of the country's ...

For Taiwan, isolated by Chinese pressure, hosting the Oslo Freedom Forum is a kind of international validation — from dissidents, if not from governments.

In Cambodia's elections this past weekend, Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) reportedly won all 125 of the seats contested in elections that w…

The ruling party of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen congratulated itself Monday on its election victory, while the opposition party unable to contest the polls ...

Scared and on the run, members of the opposition mount campaign against legitimacy of strongman leader Hun Sen.

Yang Saing Koma is trying to make sense of a political situation in Cambodia that some claim is not salvageable.

Cambodia's general election on July 29 has become a proxy theater for competition between China and Japan as the two vie for influence in the Southeast ...

Nowhere else in Southeast Asia is China and the West's battle for political and economic influence more evident than in Cambodia, where strongman leader ...

Son Chhay has been a fixture in Cambodian politics since 1993. A member of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), he opted ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Doves flew into the sky and traditional dancers performed at huge rallies in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on Saturday, as ...

PHNOM PENH -- With Cambodia's national elections fast approaching, garment workers who had largely backed the opposition in the last poll say they are.

Former leaders of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) protested in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, demanding the reinstatement of its ...

The former president of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Kem Sokha, was awarded the Asian Human Rights Peace Prize last ...

South Korean rights group the National Council of Churches (NCC) on Friday awarded its Asian Human Rights Peace Prize to the jailed president of ...

In my latest Q&A, I talk with two women from Cambodia. They are lovely and gracious — also steely and brave. Their names are Mu Sochua and Monovithya ...

Speaking in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, Mu Sochua said the continued support for the election process offered a veneer of respectability to an otherwise corrupt ...

Mu Sochua was a political leader in Cambodia — now she's in exile. “If I were to stay in Cambodia I would be arrested right away,” she explained. “Being in exile ...

Cambodia's national general election is scheduled to occur at the end of July 2018. With a few months away, former opposition members of the Cambodia ...

PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) - Cambodia began registering political parties on Monday (April 30) for a July general election which long-serving Prime Minister ...

Former opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Mu Sochua paid visits to Japan and Indonesia last week, appealing for help from the regional powers amidst an ...

The exiled leader of Cambodian opposition Sam Rainsy stated that the country is near bankruptcy since PM Hun Sen is in huge debt to China, ADB.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's former opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, called on Sunday for Cambodians to boycott a general election set for July 29 if ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summonsed several prominent members of the Cambodia National Rescue Movement to appear in a case that alleges a ...

Former opposition deputy leader Mu Sochua suggested delaying Cambodia's July 29 national elections in testimony before the Canadian parliament's ...

Jakarta: For Mu Sochua, life in exile is a series of airports and interviews. This week, she is in New Zealand. Next week, Canada, where she will again be ...

Cambodian Australians of all ages put fear aside and gather in Sydney to protest against human rights abuses in their homeland, despite their leader's threat to ...

The widow of slain political analyst Kem Ley on Sunday called for protesters to join her in demonstrating against Prime Minister Hun Sen when he visits Australia ...

The United States has announced it is suspending some assistance programmes to Cambodia over its concerns with "setbacks to democracy" in the country.

When contacted by VOA, Many declined to comment on the leak, instead calling for a face-to-face interview, which must be applied for in writing.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Foreign-based members of Cambodia's dissolved opposition party have launched a movement to demand the release of its detained ...

Exiled opposition vice president Mu Sochua urges Cambodians to stay engaged in politics and calls on the international community to help restore democracy.

Former Deputy Cambodia National Rescue Party President Mu Sochua met with Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop yesterday, calling for targeted ...

Hun Sen staged a ceremony at Angkor Wat in a bid to reinforce his legitimacy, says the BBC's Jonathan Head.

In crushing the party of which I was vice-president, Cambodia's prime minister has revealed himself as a brutal dictator intent on prolonging his oppressive rule.

Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, pictured during the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on June 6, 2010. / Wikimedia ...

Boris Johnson is to face calls to slap targeted sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation amid its worst human rights crisis in two years. Mu Sochua, 63, deputy ...

Democracy 'dipping fast into a big hole', says Mu Sochua, after prime minister Hun Sen consolidates grip on power by banning opponents and closing media.

Under strongman Hun Sen, Cambodia has taken its first legal step toward completely dissolving its main opposition party. Essentially every opposition leader is ...

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Mu Sochua, one of three vice presidents of Cambodia's besieged opposition party, returned to her apartment in a central ...

Leading opposition figure Mu Sochua tells the BBC she has fled into exile for fear of being arrested for treason.

Bangkok: Cambodian strongman Hun Sen has widened a crackdown on his critics, forcing half of the country's opposition politicians to flee overseas in fear of ...

Mu Sochua, the deputy leader of Cambodia's main opposition party, says her country's government is waging “psychological warfare” on its opponents in an ...

The Hun Sen government no longer even pretends to tolerate a political opposition.

Mu Sochua knows she is a target. The Cambodian opposition politician has been told she is on a list of 10 people who are next in line to be arrested. Hers is no ...

Mu Sochua, CNRP vice president, told VOA Khmer on Wednesday that Sokha would not resign from the position.

Two lawmakers exchanged heated words outside a Pailin market on Sunday, in what the Cambodia National Rescue Party claimed was an ongoing intimidation ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For days now, tens of thousands of mourners, rich and poor, from the cities and from the countryside, have been visiting Wat Chas ...

Bloody clashes broke out in central Phnom Penh's Freedom Park on Tuesday morning as security guards broke up an antigovernment demonstration.

Outspoken female MP takes battle to Hun Sen's ruling party as Cambodia goes to the polls.

Mu Sochua, the most prominent woman in Cambodia's opposition, is part of a new generation of women in Asian politics.