Cambodia News: Ranariddh

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KUALA LUMPUR: The act of insulting and mocking the monarchy through social media has become increasingly common nowadays that some have suggested ...

In a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Royal Cambodian Army yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he was personally targeted by his ...

KHMER National United Party (KNUP) secretary-general Sok Visal said on Monday that his party will merge with Funcinpec and that talks had reached a ...

For decades, the official line from the United Nations and the bevy of international foreign ministers and diplomats who brokered the 1991 Paris Peace Accords ...

Cambodia's government will host the start of a three-day celebration marking the 20-year anniversary of the end of civil war. The event, beginning Dec.

Kong Korm, the former top adviser to the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) who recently announced his return to the political ...

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, ...

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.

Four high-ranking Funcinpec officials, i.e. three deputy presidents and one deputy secretary general, have been removed from office.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent ABC Four Corners story “Champagne with Dictators” shows Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at a political rally telling the ABC reporter that ...

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 ...

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

It's been 25 years since the UN tried to bring democracy to war-ravaged Cambodia. Is that dream dead?

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 ...

PHNOM PENH, July 26 (Xinhua) -- About 306 international observers from over 40 countries will monitor Cambodia's general election on July 29, a spokesman ...

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 ...

Cambodia's political prince Norodom Ranariddh submits to strongman Hun Sen as opposition crumbles.

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.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen (L), president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP), and his wife Bun Rany attend an election ...

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 ...

Cambodia and China recently marked 60 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations with a grand gala dinner. Presiding over the event were Cambodian ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cambodia's royalist Funcinpec party on Thursday rejected a police report which called a car collision that left the party's president Prince Norodom Ranariddh ...

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. Cambodia Prince Ranariddh injured and wife killed in car crash  BBC News
2. Injured Cambodian Prince Ranariddh in stable condition after road accident, airlifted to Thai hospital  The Straits Times
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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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.

Despite documented cases of torture and abuse, immigration court files obtained by Southeast Asia Globe reveal that the US is sending Cambodian asylum ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) - A 50-year-old teacher has been arrested in Cambodia for allegedly insulting the monarchy in a comment posted on Facebook, ...

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, ...

The royalist Funcipec party yesterday dismissed three more members after holding an internal meeting over the weekend. According to a letter signed by Prince ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

May 12 (UPI) -- Rising tensions on the Korean peninsula are compelling countries friendly with Pyongyang to take a more active approach to North Korea.

Prince Norodom Ranariddh has pledged to help ease rising tensions on the Korean peninsula when he visits the North in July. The Funcinpec Party president ...

It has been 19 years since the Cambodian People's Party seized control of the country in a violent coup. On Wednesday, two opposition parties — the Cambodia ...

A crisis strikes after a national election. Two longtime rivals of Prime Minister Hun Sen stand together to demand he resign and refuse to work in parliament.

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 ...

If 2014 had ended as a year for hope in Cambodian politics, 2015 was the year it all went back to normal. Almost as if an omen for the eventual return to ...

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 ...

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Prince Norodom Ranariddh's wife, Ouk Phalla, returned to the Kingdom on Monday. She will have to return to Thailand once a ...

PHNOM PENH, (Khmer Times) – The wife of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Princess Ouk Phalla, will return to Cambodia next month, the Prince announced after ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Norodom Ranariddh Party, already rudderless since the retirement from politics of its president Prince Ranariddh, took another blow Tuesday with a key ...