Cambodian News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s former King Norodom Sihanouk is fighting his third bout with cancer but is optimistic he will recover and return to his homeland from China, according to a message on his Web site.
The 86-year-old Sihanouk, in a statement dated Wednesday, said he was being treated by Chinese doctors in Beijing [...]

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Prince Norodom Ranariddh, a key leader in post-civil war Cambodia, has been appointed as chief adviser to his half brother, the king, the prince’s office said Monday (15 Dec).
King Norodom Sihamoni appointed Ranariddh as president of the Supreme Privy Advisory Council on 6 Dec, giving him a rank formally equivalent to that [...]

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has sent a letter to former king Norodom Sihanouk requesting his help in resolving “serious problems” within and outside of the country.
The continuing border standoff over Preah Vihear temple and an impending deadlock between the ruling party and the opposition over the next administration are both damaging the country, Sam Rainsy [...]

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 [...]

As Cambodian and Thai officials sought to resolve the continued military standoff at Preah Vihear temple, former king Norodom Sihanouk re-issued a statement this week saying he was willing to raise an army if the Thais invaded the country.
Sihanouk is scheduled to leave for Beijing Friday for the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics, but [...]

Three non-ruling parties requested King Norodom Sihamoni to intervene in the final election decision, claiming as many as a million people were denied their right to vote in Sunday’s election.
The Sam Rainsy, Human Rights and Norodom Ranariddh parties, each of which won seats Sunday but are contesting the results, wrote a letter to the king [...]

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party was seeking a partner in its ruling government Wednesday, and officials said it would reach out to its old partner, the fractured royalist party Funcinpec.
CPP officials said Wednesday they would not allow some members of the royal family to join the government, but they would be amenable to adding other [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia met Monday to begin what they said would be protracted talks over a disputed mountaintop temple where soldiers from both nations have confronted each other since early this month.
“The situation is not easing,” a Cambodian government spokesman, Khieu Kanharith, said at a news conference here in [...]

Human Rights Party President Kem Sokha has asked King Norodom Sihamoni to consider intervening in the ongoing border crisis at Preah Vihear temple.
“We believe that only Your Majesty can solve the issue, because the royal families of the two countries have a good relationship, and have no political interests or partisanship,” Kem Sokha wrote in [...]

Cambodian People’s Party district political officials issued a campaign complaint Tuesday over the display of the royal portraits outside a Norodom Ranariddh Party headquarters.
CPP representative Nuon Nho filed the complaint at the commune election committee, or CEC, for Or Cha commune, Battambang district, Battambang province, alleging the violation of a code of conduct by the [...]