Cambodia News: sam rainsy

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 ...
Rainsy's image replaced by slogan - Khmer TimesKhmer Times
Party Law Sails Through; SRP Mulls Name Change - The Cambodia ...The Cambodia Daily

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Rainsy airbrushed out of opposition
Khmer Times
Top officials in the opposition CNRP and Sam Rainsy Party will meet tomorrow to discuss changing their logos in line with amendments to the Law on Political Parties. The CNRP will cease to use an image of its former leader Sam Rainsy holding hands with ...

Cambodia's Sam Rainsy Backs Proposal to Grant Outgoing PMs Immunity
Radio Free Asia
Speaking to RFA's Khmer Service Wednesday from France, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since 2015 to avoid questionable defamation charges, former CNRP President Sam Rainsy said such legislation was necessary to avoid conflict in the event ...
Sam Rainsy buries himself with populismKhmer Times
Rainsy warns CPP over lawThe Phnom Penh Post
CNRP Formally Petitions King for Help Against New LawThe Cambodia Daily

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Interview: 'No One Can End my Political Career as Long as I'm Alive'
Radio Free Asia
Former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy, who has been forced to live in exile since 2015 in the face of questionable defamation charges, spoke with reporter Vuthy Huot of Radio Free Asia's Khmer Service from France ...
CNRP to Ask King to Snub New Party Law ChangesThe Cambodia Daily
Cambodia Opposition Celebrates Five-Year AnniversaryVOA Khmer (English)

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Cambodia Amendment Effectively Cuts Sam Rainsy Ties to CNRP
Radio Free Asia
The CPP had proposed an amendment to the Law on Political Parties which was approved amid a boycott of parliament by opposition lawmakers in February that banned convicted criminals from holding a leadership position in a party, forcing Sam Rainsy to ...
CPP assembly members vote for 'Anti-Rainsy' lawThe Phnom Penh Post
Hun Sen's game of political chicken: Time for Rainsy to actASEAN TODAY
Cambodia Amends Election Law Before 2018 VoteThe Wire
Khmer Times -The Cambodia Daily -Asian Correspondent
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Cambodia passes bill tightening screws on opposition
Miami Herald
Sam Rainsy has been convicted of criminal defamation and similar offenses by courts generally seen as politically biased. He already resigned his party leadership and membership in February after the Law on Political Parties was amended to make parties ...
Breaking: Assembly passes Party Law changes targeting RainsyThe Phnom Penh Post
Cambodian ruling MPs move to isolate opposition figureheadChannel NewsAsia
Cambodia passes law barring political parties from having links with convicted criminalsFirstpost

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Proposed Cambodia Law Would Ban Sam Rainsy Association With CNRP
Radio Free Asia
Lawmakers from Cambodia's National Assembly met Thursday to discuss a proposed amendment that would ban the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) from associating with its former leader Sam Rainsy if voted into law next week.
Political Party Law Would Sever Rainsy From CNRPThe Cambodia Daily
Party law vote set for MondayThe Phnom Penh Post
Political party law changes edge closerKhmer Times

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Mutilated civilians in Marawi, Trump's Indonesian woes, and Sam Rainsy under fire
Southeast Asia Globe
Filipino staff of a public cemetery carry a casket during a mass burial of victims of fighting between Islamist militants and government forces in Marawi City, Mindanao Island, Philippines, 15 June 2017. Photo: EPA/Merlyn Manos ...

More Law Changes Underway to Sideline Rainsy
The Cambodia Daily
Peeved by opposition figure Sam Rainsy's continued online criticism of his government, Prime Minister Hun Sen asked lawmakers on Wednesday to consider a second round of changes to the Law on Political Parties to keep the exiled “prisoner” out of ...
Cambodia's Hun Sen Pushes For Tighter Restrictions on Political OppositionRadio Free Asia
Cambodian court releases 5 human rights workers on bailNational Post
As CPP marks 66th anniversary, Hun Sen takes opportunity to accuse CNRPThe Phnom Penh Post
Khmer Times
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Australian James Ricketson questioned over links to Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy
ABC Online
But a source close to the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said the filmmaker's arrest was not related to the drone. "He was questioned about his links to [former opposition leader Sam] Rainsy," the source ...