Cambodia News: Ranariddh

CNRP meets as new Party Law clears council, National, Phnom ...
The Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders yesterday summoned members from across the Kingdom instructing them how to comply with impending new laws ...

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More set to leave KNUP
The Phnom Penh Post
Chan Nora, the KNUP secretary-general, said that on Saturday he told Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the president of Funcinpec, of his decision to defect back to the royalist party from which the KNUP split in February 2016 after Bun Chhay and Ranariddh ...
Under Pressure, Senior KNUP Officials Jump Ship to FuncinpecThe Cambodia Daily

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All KNUP Members Will Be Removed From Government: CPP Spokesman
The Cambodia Daily
In the following decade, amid Funcinpec's decline, Mr. Bun Chhay sued Prince Norodom Ranariddh—who had been the party's president and co-prime minister after the 1993 election—for allegedly pocketing money from the sale of Funcinpec headquarters.

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Prime Minister Calls Immunity Request for Past Premiers an Insult
The Cambodia Daily
At the time of the July 5 and 6, 1997, factional fighting between forces loyal to Mr. Hun Sen, then second prime minister, and First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Mr. Lay Sreng was the government's commerce secretary of state and a member of ...

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Never a dull second: 25 years of momentous events
The Phnom Penh Post
General election brings Hun Sen and Prince Ranariddh as co-prime ministers into coalition government after Hun Sen and the CPP refuse to accept election results that favour the royalist Funcinpec party. Cambodia becomes a kingdom again under the new ...

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Ex-SRP leader Korm marks July 1997 'coup'
The Phnom Penh Post
Speaking at the Cambodia National Rescue Party's headquarters to mark 20 years since the two bloody days that cemented Hun Sen as the country's supreme leader, Korm said the ouster of First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh said enough.
CNRP Marks Anniversary of Factional FightingThe Cambodia Daily
Khmer and Boujee: Power, Nepotism and Cambodia's Upcoming ElectionsThe McGill International Review

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Memories from the front: Former soldiers of the July 1997 conflict discuss motives, outcomes
The Phnom Penh Post
Many Khmer Rouge soldiers, he said, had switched their allegiances to rival factions of the government: Funcinpec, under then-first Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Military Commander Nhek Bun Chhay; and the Cambodian People's Party, led ...

Making of a strongman: In July 1997, Hun Sen took full control of the country – and his party
The Phnom Penh Post
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 Hun Sen crowned himself Cambodia's supreme leader and decisively quashed any opposition to ...

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The Cambodia Daily
Attacks occasionally spread to CPP critics' quarters such as Mam Sonando's independent Beehive Radio station that was located near the home of Funcinpec's leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh. On July 6, soldiers stormed the station and looted about ...

Prince Ranariddh to Visit North Korea, Make Plea Against War
The Cambodia Daily
Prince Norodom Ranariddh speaks at an event for young supporters of the Funcinpec party at the Phnom Penh Hotel in 2015. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily). “I will take a private visit to North Korea to ask the country's leader to stop their plan of ...
Cambodia's Prince Ranariddh to visit North KoreaNK News
Ranariddh off to North KoreaKhmer Times

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