Cambodian News

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — The Cambodian National Election Committee (NEC) declared Tuesday the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has secured 90 seats, or over two thirds of the 123 seats, at top legislative body in the general election, thus enabling CPP to have stronger management of the country.
Meanwhile, the main opposition Sam Rainsy [...]

Cranston City, RI, United States, — The full implementation of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement is the only alternative to lead Cambodia toward freedom and democracy.
Presently, Cambodia is a police state just as were Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria during their occupation by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. The elections in Central Europe [...]

Hong Kong, China — The ruling Cambodian People’s Party won a landslide victory in the country’s general election on July 27, claiming 90 out of 123 seats in the National Assembly, the lower house in the bicameral parliamentary system – although final results will not be announced till September.
This party almost wiped out its long-standing [...]

With yet another election victory in the bag, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, is now entering his thirty-fourth year in power.
Hun Sen draws his inspiration not from south-east Asia’s more democratic leaders, but from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, who used dictatorial methods to build a modern, prosperous but tightly-controlled island city-state. Still only 57, [...]

As King Norodom Sihamoni returned from the Beijing Olympics Friday, he was scheduled for key election functions, but opposition officials said they would ask him to delay a swearing-in ceremony for the formation of the new government.
Opposition leaders are maintaining a boycott of July’s election results, claiming widespread fraud undermined free and fair elections.
Their complaints [...]

The newly elected members of three parties in opposition to the ruling coalition will not swear in later this month, preventing the formation of the National Assembly and retaining a deadlock in the new government, leaders said Friday.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who held a press conference with the leaders of the Human Rights and Norodom [...]

Cambodia’s National Election Commission says the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has won 58 percent of the popular vote in last month’s election.
It nearest rival is the Sam Rainsy party with 22 percent.
The NEC however declined to say how many parliamentary seats each party had won saying this would be decided later to allow political parties [...]

Phnom Penh – Cambodia released the final vote count from last month’s general election on Saturday, showing the full extent to which the country’s two main parties dominated the polls.
Of just over 6 million votes, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) took almost 3.5 million, and the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) 1.3 million, according [...]

Phnom Penh – Cambodia’s National Election Committee said Friday it would announce temporary results from the July 27 national polls within 24 hours.
The committee said the results would be announced at 8 am (0100 GMT) Saturday on state media and a number of other outlets.
It said the 11 participating parties then had 72 [...]

The consolidation of the ruling party’s power and the disunity of the opposition entrench a form of controlled democracy in Cambodia. The cost of short-term stability could be high, says Kheang Un.
On 27 July 2008, Cambodia held its fourth parliamentary elections since the 1993 United Nations imposed democracy; eleven political parties contested the elections, but [...]