Cambodia News: Ranariddh

Two decades ago, Phnom Penh was different. It was a transitional period for the city that was being confronted by harsh realities. But in the midst of that chaos, ...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Wednesday accepted the credentials of incoming North Korean ambassador Ma Chol Su in a ceremony in Havana, ...

As the Kingdom prepares to commemorate on October 23 the 27th anniversary of the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, which ushered in an end to ...

Prime minister Hun Sen on Monday said he has forgiven those responsible for an attempt on his life 20 years ago, using the anniversary to further express his ...

The Interior Ministry has rejected the decision of the royalist Funcinpec Party to appoint Prince Norodom Ranariddh's son as acting president.

The royalist Funcinpec party and Khmer National United Party may merge in a move to gain more support, party officials said yesterday. KNUP spokesman Run ...

Four Funcinpec officials sacked by the party are now demanding clarification.

Funcinpec acting president terminates the memberships of 4 higher-ranking officials.

Displaying a conflict in the inner workings of the Funcinpec party, three senior party officials had their positions removed.

Funcinpec party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has hand-picked his oldest son to take over the party in his absence as he continues to recover from a ...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen won a sweeping victory in the July ...

The Funcinpec Party appointed Prince Norodom Chakravuth as its acting president while Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the party's head since 1992, is out of the ...

The royalist Funcinpec party has vowed to iron out its party's years-long infighting and get its leadership reformed in a move to buttress its popularity after ...

Influencing change in Cambodia will require a more sophisticated approach than sanctions and direct criticisms of Hun Sen's government.

Millions of Cambodians went to cast their ballots across the country on July 29. So too did people in Kampong Cham's Mien commune. Despite being a ...

Cambodia's election is widely seen as illegitimate due to the absence of the country's biggest opposition party, but there are still 19 parties standing up to Hun ...

The Cambodian government has ordered internet *service* providers (ISPs) to block the websites of 15 news websites of independent outlets including Voice of ...

Cambodia's U.N.-led democratic experiment is expected to receive a crushing blow Sunday, as the country goes to the polls in an election all but engineered to ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh was a former leader returning to politics, but his severe injury in a head-on collision means Prime Minister Hun Sen is unable to give ...

Svay Rieng province – In a bid to retain two seats here given to them following the dissolution of the CNRP, Funcinpec members are hoping that their message ...

The first day of campaigning for the national elections set for July 29 kicked off on Saturday with 11 political parties holding rallies across the Kingdom.

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 ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh will soon join his party's upcoming election campaign upon his recovery from a fatal car crash.

While 20 different political parties will vie for votes at Cambodia's national elections on July 29, the contest will be by any honest measure a one-horse race.

Ouk Phalla was one of the country's most prominent Apsara dancers.

Prime Minister Hun Sen lifted the curtain on some of his own political strategies on Wednesday, when he said his criticisms of minor party leaders in the past ...

The Funcipec party decides to hire a lawyer to review the Prince's traffic accident case.

Prince Norodom Ranariddh appealed to all Cambodians to vote in the July 29 national elections and not listen to members of the court-dissolved Cambodian ...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia The course of Sok Eysan's life was set one day in 1979 as he wandered the streets of the Cambodian capital, desperate and alone.

A good friend of the Filipino people, former Premier-Prince Norodom Ranariddh of Cambodia, son of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, and elder half-brother of ...

The prince and his wife, Ouk Phalla, 39, were traveling to meet supporters in the southwestern province on Sunday morning.

Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh's mangled car sits on the side of a road after a collision with another vehicle outside Sihanoukville, June 17, 2018.

Prince Norodom Ranariddh was absent at the cremation ceremony of his wife, Ouk Phalla, on Wednesday, but a gathering of the royal family, party leaders, ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who was seriously injured in a car crash that killed his wife, has regained the ability to talk as he recovers in a Thailand hospital, ...

PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian prince who was a candidate in upcoming general elections was transferred to a hospital in neighbouring Thailand after being ...

1. Injured Cambodian Prince Ranariddh in stable condition after road accident, airlifted to Thai hospital  The Straits Times
2. Cambodia Prince Ranariddh injured and wife killed in car crash  BBC News
3. Wife of Cambodia's Prince Ranariddh dies in road accident - Asean Plus  The Star Online
4. Cambodia's Prince Ranariddh injured and wife killed in head-on collision  Sky News
5. Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh Seriously Injured in Car Accident That Killed His Wife  TIME
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A Cambodian prince hurt in a car crash that killed his wife was flown to Bangkok for treatment Monday and is expected to recover, a member of his political party ...

Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, president of Funcinpec Party, and his wife Ouk Phalla got injured in a road accident in southwestern Preah Sihanouk ...

Migrants' ordeal ends as rescue ship docks in Spain; fire ravages Glasgow's historic Mackintosh building.

In July 1992, Ly Sitha and her husband, Thavy Nhao, were visited at their Phnom Penh home by a police lieutenant named Sok Vibol as he sought shelter from ...

Four high-ranking Funcinpec party members in Pursat province have submitted a letter to party President Prince Norodom, announcing their resignations.

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday slammed the Funcinpec party's promise to pay off the personal debts of Cambodians if it won the July 29 national ...

Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) on Tuesday drew random numbers for political party positions on election ballots, with the ruling party taking the ...

PHNOM PENH, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's National Election Committee (NEC) had officially recognized all of the 20 political parties that registered to ...

The National Election Committee raised the tally of political parties fully registered for the upcoming national elections to five on Wednesday, with the royalist ...

A lawmaker for ruling CPP and president of Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia has called on all relevant authorities to arrest suspects after doctored ...

As the master angler of Cambodia's admittedly small political pond, Prime Minister Hun Sen is the king of catch and release. Such appears to be the case with ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday urged senators to protect justice and human rights as the upper house of the ...

Two decades have passed, but Mea Chron still stands by Pol Pot. Most days he also stands by the mass murderer's cremation site, keeping guard in the Khmer ...

The National Assembly elected two members of Funcinpec to the Senate on Monday, completing the 62-member legislative body dominated by the ruling ...

A COUNTRY boy, Hun Sen gets up early and works hard. He is said to spend hours every morning on his treadmill, to counter the ravages of his earlier years as ...

Jakarta: The chief executive of Cambodia's oldest independent news outlet, Marcus Holmes, says the Phnom Penh Post is not in danger of closing down, ...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The election for the four mandate of the Cambodian Senate, or the upper house, kicked off on Sunday with four political ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, president of the royalist Funcinpec party, has said recently ousted members should have solved their problem internally instead of ...

The National Assembly unanimously passed amendments to the Constitution and Criminal Code Wednesday that will impose restrictions on political rights and ...

Cambodia's Council of Ministers approved plans on February 2 to introduce a lèse majesté law that would make it illegal to make disparaging comments against ...

A Funcinpec member who created a petition to remove other high-ranking party officials has instead himself been fired by party President Prince Norodom ...

A high-ranking Funcinpec official has published a petition calling for the dismissal of two prominent party members, accusing the pair of nepotism. Seng Haksrun ...

The royalist Funcinpec party yesterday denied local media reports that it had appointed a Chinese national as vice president. Rasmei Kampuchea on Sunday ...

Funcinpec's president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has appointed a Chinese-Cambodian businessman as the party's new vice president. The announcement ...

Funcinpec President Prince Norodom Ranariddh yesterday doubled down on his seemingly illegal request for Chinese aid, claiming it was his “right”, despite ...

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said royalist party Funcinpec will not be investigated for requesting funds from China, despite an article in the Law ...

The royalist Funcinpec Party could be fined or be temporarily suspended if it received assistance from the Communist Party of China after its president asked for ...

Ruling Cambodian People's Party member Yin Bunnang will take the seat of recently deceased lawmaker Im Sethy, representing Kampong Cham province, the ...

The royalist Funcinpec Party has asked the Communist Party of China for assistance in the upcoming 2018 national election. Wang Weiguang, president of the ...

Newly minted Funcinpec lawmakers took their places this weekend at the head of five National Assembly commissions previously chaired by the now-dissolved ...

The National Assembly voted to ratify a lawmaker from the royalist Funcipec Party as its First Vice President. On Friday You Hokry replaced Kem Sokha, who had ...

Former National Assembly president and Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh met with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in Phnom ...

Following the redistribution of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party's seats in parliament, 55 new lawmakers entered the National Assembly this ...

Forty-four unelected lawmakers from three parties that won less than a combined 5 percent of the vote in the 2013 elections took their seats in the National ...

Forty-four unelected lawmakers from three parties that won less than a combined 5 percent of the vote in the 2013 elections took their seats in the National ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has approved new candidates to fill National Assembly seats left vacant by the dissolution of the opposition, drastically ...

From commanding almost half of the popular vote in Cambodia's 1993 elections to barely a footnote in the most recent ballots, Funcinpec's resurgence as a tool ...

Ex-Funcinpec official Lu Lay Sreng doubled down on criticisms of his former party from abroad over the weekend, accusing the royalist party's president, Prince ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, whose Funcinpec Party has filed a complaint against the opposition CNRP, spoke to Alan Parkhouse about his return to political ...

Funcinpec president Prince Norodom Ranariddh says his party will meet on Monday to pick 60 out of 123 senior party members to take up parliamentary ...

Lawyers for Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Justice Ministry and Funcinpec party yesterday filed three separate defamation lawsuits against former deputy prime ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - With Cambodia's opposition warning of the imminent death of its democracy, the historic rival who once beat Prime Minister Hun Sen ...

The seemingly impending demise of Cambodia's main opposition, and the snap draft laws put in motion to replace them in parliament, threatens to throw a ...

A spokesman for Funcinpec said yesterday that the party had filed its complaint to dissolve the opposition CNRP because “they took all my supporters”, insisting ...

Royalist party Funcinpec yesterday followed through on its promise to file a complaint to dissolve the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), ...

As the smoke cleared in Phnom Penh on this day 20 years ago, following swift and decisive military action that cemented power in the hands of current Prime ...

Twenty years on from the day Prime Minister Hun Sen seized power from co-premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Funcinpec is seeking justice for party officials ...

Over two days of bloody armed battles 20 years ago today, forces loyal to Hun Sen routed troops supporting Prince Norodom Ranariddh, marking the moment ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is the son of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, who formed close relations with the regime of Kim Il Sung in the early 1970s.

Funcinpec President Prince Norodom Ranariddh said on Thursday that he would visit North Korea in the next month or two to help persuade the isolated ...

A high-level North Korean diplomat has pledged to build on good relations with Cambodia and the country's royalist Funcinpec Party. Ma Chol Su, who leads ...

Nhek Bun Chhay and Prince Norodom Ranariddh are going their separate ways – again.

An anonymous letter was posted on a local news portal yesterday purporting to be from royalist Funcinpec party members nostalgic for the days of the party's ...

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – President of the Funcinpec Party Prince Norodom Ranariddh yesterday denied demanding $360,000 in compensation for a car ...

PHNOM PENH, July 25, (Khmer Times) – To maintain the royalist regime, the Cambodian Royalist Youth Movement was officially launched here on July 25, with ...

Royalist party leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh has finally waded into the disputes over the demarcation of the Cambodia-Vietnam border and a controversial ...

Longtime politician Prince Norodom Ranariddh has begun attacking the opposition's negotiations with the ruling party, in what analysts say may be an attempt to ...

Funcinpec party head Prince Norodom Ranariddh was the victim of a hit-and-run accident on Saturday that left at least six injured in Kampong Cham province, ...

Princess Norodom Arun Rasmey has resigned from her position as a deputy president of the royalist Funcinpec party, prompting analysts to question the viability ...

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh was elected Monday as president of the royalist Funcinpec party, nine years after he was toppled as ...

Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh returned on Monday to lead a party that ditched him eight years ago, in a comeback aimed at reviving royalist support to ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is leaving his newly formed political party and returning to the one that he led decades ago. In a letter addressed to current ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is making a grand return to Cambodian politics with a new party pledging, by its title at least, to bring unity to the Kingdom. Or so say ...

Prince Norodom Ranarridh, once Prime Minister Hun Sen's biggest political rival, has formed a new party. In an interview at his home in Phnom Penh, the prince ...