Cambodian News

An independent election monitor expressed concern Wednesday that the increase of political parties in the National Assembly could weaken the political voice of the opposition.
In July’s elections, the Sam Rainsy, Human Rights, Norodom Ranariddh and Funcinpec parties all won seats, and if they remain disjointed, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, with its 90 seats, will [...]

Cambodian lawmakers and other officials began two days of workshops Wednesday in an effort to strengthen the roles and responsibilities of the newly elected National Assembly.
More than 100 people met, including Senate and National Assembly members and other international and national organization staff.
Participants discussed the relationship between parliament and civil society, the roles of parliamentary [...]

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen promised to combat corruption and advocate good governance as he unveiled the country’s new Cabinet on Thursday (25 Sept).
Cambodia’s newly elected lower house of parliament, overwhelmingly packed with lawmakers from Hun Sen’s ruling party, voted to approve the Cabinet, which is filled with the same ministers who [...]

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 [...]

Among his childhood memories, Sam Rainsy recalls sitting with his father on the rooftop terrace of their beautiful house in Phnom Penh, watching pelicans land next to their water tank. “In Cambodia, which is full of superstitions, friends and neighbours kept telling us that these pelicans would end up by bringing us bad luck,” he [...]

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 [...]

he landslide victory of the Cambodian People’s Party at the July 27 elections, in which it is expected once official results are released to have won 90 seats out of 123, a gain of 17 seats from the 2003 election, bodes well for the future of Cambodia and it will bolster the 23-year rule of [...]

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 [...]

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — The major ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won around 58.11 percent of the votes in the fourth general election on July 27, according to the preliminary official balloting results declared by the National Election Committee (NEC) here Saturday.
Altogether 3,492,374 out of the 6,010,277 actual voters cast their ballots for [...]