Cambodian News

Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Ranariddh has returned from exile just days after being pardoned by the king over a fraud conviction. His political rival, Prime Minister Hun Sen requested the amnesty.
COCHRANE: Prince Norodom Ranariddh wasted no time getting back to Cambodia, news of a royal pardon emerged Thursday and by Sunday Prince Ranariddh touched down in [...]

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 [...]

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — The eponymous opposition party (NRP) headed by Prince Norodom Ranariddh has denied the rumor that he is expected to resign and quit politics, English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily said Tuesday.
The prince has never told anyone in the party that he plans to resign from his post as party [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodia’s royalist parties said Tuesday they would accept the results of last month’s election, despite their previous claims that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party had rigged the polls.
The royalist Funcinpec party and its offshoot the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) joined opposition leader Sam Rainsy late last month to complain that [...]

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 [...]