Cambodia News: Sihamoni

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PHNOM PENH, April 7 (Xinhua) — Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and his mother, former Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, returned home on ...

Former deputy prime minister Lu Lay Sreng on Sunday landed in Cambodia and announced his retirement from politics, less than a week after Prime Minister ...

King and Queen return to the Kingdom after a three-week medical trip to China.

PHNOM PENH, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and his mother, former Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, returned home on ...

On April 4, 2019, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk of ...

BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother ...

The National Assembly of Cambodia on Monday began its second plenary session of the sixth legislature after a three-month recess. Some 113 lawmakers of ...

King Norodom Sihamoni praises the National Assembly and PM's leadership.

The National Assembly on Monday held the second session of its sixth mandate to discuss and approve several agendas. Headed by assembly president Heng ...

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday unveiled his strategy to offset the loss of a preferential trade agreement that the European Union is likely to ...

The Ministry of Interior has informed recently rehabilitated former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Real Camerin that his request to form the ...

Ban Samphy, a former Siem Reap provincial official of the Supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, was released from prison on Friday, but ...

Politburo member Tran Quoc Vuong (R) and Second Vice President of the Cambodian National Assembly Khuon Sudary at the meeting (Photo: VNA).

Social and political analyst Lao Mong Hay on Tuesday called on King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath to grant Cambodia National ...

The King and the Queen Mother fly to Beijing for a routine medical check-up.

Prime Minister Hun Sen today said he wants the constitution amended to allow the death sentence for child rapists.

Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong yesterday began the first day of his state visit to the Kingdom with an audience with King Norodom Sihamoni and ...

Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng had talks with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Phnom Penh yesterday, during his ongoing ...

NDO/VNA – Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong held talks with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in Phnom Penh on February 25, ...

Ignore the abdications in Malaysia and Japan and forget the turmoil in Thailand; a new breed of monarch is breathing new life into Asia's long love affair with its ...

Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong will pay a two-day state visit on Monday to meet the Kingdom's high ranking officials and witness the signing of a ...

Cultural celebration: Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni (sixth left, center) poses for a photograph with Indonesian Coordinating Human Development and ...

Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong will make a two-day state visit on Monday to meet the Kingdom's high ranking officials.

King Norodom Sihamoni on Thursday signed off on an amendment to the law on municipal, provincial and district council elections, effectively increasing the ...

King Norodom Sihamoni has lifted the political ban on former opposition party top adviser Kong Korm and his son Kong Bora after the duo submitted requests to ...

A veteran Cambodian politician and his son on Wednesday became the first among 118 opposition members banned from politics for five years to have the ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni said in a royal message on Tuesday that dialogue and international ...

A Cambodian man has been sentenced to three years in jail for insulting the country's king in Facebook posts. According to Reuters, Leng Cholsa was jailed and ...

A Cambodian court has jailed a man for three years for insulting the king in Facebook posts, the second known conviction under a new lèse-majesté law ...

The King signs off on the amendment to the Law on Political Parties.

Thousands of children in Cambodia live in orphanages even though their parents are still alive. Some of the institutions exist solely to make money from tourists.

King Norodom Sihamoni returned today (Dec.21) from his three-day visit to Vietnam. His visit to Hanoi and Danang followed an invitation from the government.

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni left Phnom Penh for Vietnamese capital Hanoi on Wednesday morning, as he embarked on a three-day “friendship ...

NDO/VNA – Vietnam always attach importance to strengthening and enhancing the traditional friendship and sound cooperation with Cambodia for benefits of ...

King Norodom Sihamoni on Wednesday signed off on a $6.7 billion budget for 2019, an 11.4 percent increase when compared to this year's $6.09 billion.

King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath paid their respects to Beat Richner, the founder of the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals, ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni attended here the closing ceremony of an event marking the 25th anniversary ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni (C, front) and UNESCO's Director-General Audrey Azoulay (L, front) attend the closing ceremony of an event marking the ...

King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday by celebrating the progress made in ...

Some 25000 government officials, civil servants and members of the security forces took part in the annual event in Phnom Penh.

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia commemorated the 65th anniversary of its independence from France in a two-hour ceremony here on Friday.

Thousands of government officials and students join the celebration of Cambodia's 65th anniversary of its Independence Day on November 9, 2018, at the ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday marked the 14th anniversary of King Norodom Sihamoni's coronation by saying the King has significantly contributed to ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has moved almost 60 court officials, judges, and prosecutors to new posts across the country in a move welcomed by ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen marked the 14th anniversary of King Norodom Sihamoni's coronation by saying the King has significantly contributed to national ...

Meach Sovannara, an activist and former official of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, was released from a Cambodian prison in August.

Prayers commemorating late King Norodom Sihanouk are expected to be held today on Memorial Day. The National Committee for National and International ...

A Cambodian court has jailed a 70-year-old barber for seven months over a violation of the country's royal insult law, the first such conviction since the law was ...

A Cambodian court on Friday sentenced a former opposition party member to a year in jail for sharing a Facebook post criticizing the country's king in the first ...

The Siem Reap provincial court sentenced a 70-year-old barber to a year in prison under the lèse majesté law for a Facebook post insulting King Norodom ...

King Norodom Sihamoni congratulates China on its National Day.

James Ricketson, who was sentenced to six years for spying last year, was granted a pardon from the Cambodian king.

Australian filmmaker who was sentenced to six years in prison in Cambodia for espionage, has been granted a royal pardon, according to a government ...

Cambodia and China established diplomatic ties some 60 years ago, cultivated in large part by the late King Norodom Sihanouk.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcomed Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and his mother, former Queen Norodom Monineath ...

BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan on Wednesday visited Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen ...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has appointed a total of 101 people as personal advisers and assistants to the ...

The Cambodian government should immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for peacefully exercising their fundamental rights.

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, accompanied by his mother, former Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk, left here ...

King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen mother Monineath Sihanouk flew to Beijing today to have their medical check-up. According to Prime Minister Hun Sen's ...

King Norodom Sihamoni legitimised the Supreme Consultative Council and appointed 30 representatives of 16 political parties as advisors to the government at ...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni presided over the opening of the new National Assembly on Wednesday after a recent ...

The King decorates Song Tao with the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia.

King Norodom Sihamoni will preside over its opening session on September 5.

The 14, including at least 11 former members of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, were convicted of insurrection.

His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni issued a royal pardon for former oppositional lawmaker Um Sam An (CNRP) who was serving a prison sentence for ...

Sam Rainsy was charged in June with lèse-majesté after he suggested that a letter from King Norodom Sihamoni calling on Cambodians to vote was actually ...

Pardons come less than a week after the second anniversary of Tep Vanny's imprisonment on a charge of aggravated intentional violence in connection with a ...

King Norodom Sihamoni on Friday appointed Hun Sen as prime minister with the duty of organising a government for approval by the National Assembly.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Thursday released three letters from King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...

The King and the Queen Mother have donated $1 million to Kantha Bopha Children's Hospitals to continue providing free treatment to children. The donation ...

A court in Cambodia has summoned former president of the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy as a suspect in a ...

A Cambodian prince and former prime minister was injured and his wife killed in a head-on collision on a highway in the country's southwest on Sunday, officials ...

The Royal Palace avowed on Friday, June 8, that King Norodom Sihamoni's letter (dated May 18 and made public on June 5) is authentic. The letter encourages ...

Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy has been given a slap in the face, after the King sent out a royal message calling on ...

BANGKOK - Cambodian police have arrested a 70-year-old barber for allegedly insulting the king, the second such case since a controversial lese majeste law ...

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, ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—A Cambodian school director has become the first person to be arrested on charges of insulting the monarchy after posting ...

PHNOM PENH, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Thursday held the ancient royal ploughing ceremony in southeastern Svay Rieng province under the auspices ...

King Norodom Sihamoni, in an opening speech on Monday to Cambodia's newly minted Senate, urged the legislative body to uphold human rights and justice.

With Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni in attendance, the birth of Buddha was commemorated on April 8 at Sampozan Muryojuji Temple, the head temple of ...

King Norodom Sihamoni praised Cambodia's government in a written statement that was read aloud by National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Monday.

His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni flew to Japan on Friday, April 6, to attend International Buddhist Day and the inauguration ceremony of the Nalanda ...

The Ministry of Cults and Religion yesterday said that an interview given by an activist monk defamed the King and all Cambodian people by suggesting they ...

King Norodom Sihamoni's Senate nominations were announced Thursday morning, just as he left the country for Beijing after transferring his authority to sign ...

King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk left Cambodia for Beijing for routine medical check-ups.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's government on Friday (Feb 2) approved the country's first lese majeste law handing a five-year sentence to anyone found ...

The statement comes amid growing tensions between Cambodia and the United States over Prime Minister Hun Sen's government's crackdown on political ...

“I don't want to be King. I want to consecrate my life to culture, to choreography, to film. The throne does not interest me, I have never wanted to be King … if I ...

The planned amendments, which would ban the opposition from associating with its former leader, Sam Rainsy, were due to be passed on Tuesday.

The letter said that the elections would be a chance for Cambodians to express their political views in private without fear of a backlash.

With King Norodom Sihamoni out of the country, Senate President and CPP stalwart Say Chhum is set to sign off on controversial new changes to the Law on ...

On December 25, a photograph appeared on Facebook of the Cambodian King's face photoshopped onto an image of gay pornography along with the ...

The appeal coincided with the opening of a plenary session at parliament, which the opposition boycotted.

With a sprig of leaves behind his ear in place of a crown, King Norodom Sihamoni ascended Cambodia's throne 10 years ago Wednesday in a ceremony at the ...

The King eats alone. After he wakes in his en-suite bedroom in the Royal Palace, he either skips breakfast or has a small snack before launching into the ...

A year ago this week, the world was awakened to the popularity of Cambodia's monarchy. What had been latent adoration for the late King Father Norodom ...

SINCE his coronation in 2004 Cambodia's king, Norodom Sihamoni, has enjoyed a quiet life, sticking to his constitutional role as a monarch who reigns but does ...