Expulsion of Opposition Parties from the Cambodian National Assembly
Press Statement
Jen Psaki
Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
June 8, 2013
The United States is deeply concerned by reports that the Permanent Committee of the Cambodian National Assembly, made up entirely of members [...]
Hun Sen in Apparent Bid to Stifle Opposition
Radio Free Asia
Ahead of key elections next month, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is attempting to purge opposition lawmakers from parliament and prosecute a key opposition leader on allegedly distorted charges linking him to the widely [...]
Cambodian demonstration in Paris on 13 April 2013 – Organized by Singer Koy Vanna
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
http://ki-media.blogspot.com
Singer Koy Vanna is being interviewed
Singer Koy Vanna and participants to the demonstration
The banner reads: Dictator Hun Sen, a Vietnamese lackey and a mafia, get [...]
Walking in Slow Motion: French Priest Testifies on Civil War and Evacuation of Phnom Penh
April 09, 2013
By Mary Kozlovski [1]
http://www.cambodiatribunal.org
François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest and author of Cambodia: Year Zero who has lived in Cambodia for over 40 years, gave emphatic and detailed testimony as proceedings [...]
We Will Not Be Moved
Zoe discovers that the issue of forced evictions has worsened over time. The BK13 may have become a cause celebre among Cambodia’s poor and dispossessed and an inspiration to the powerless but they are feeling the pressure. They’ve been [...]
Obama presses Cambodia’s Hun Sen to improve rights record
By Matt Spetalnick
PHNOM PENH | Mon Nov 19, 2012
REUTERS.COM
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Monday to hold fair elections and release political prisoners as he took a firm line on human [...]
Obama meets with Cambodia’s longtime ‘strongman’
GRANT PECK
11/19/2012
Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – President Barack Obama arrived in Cambodia on Monday having just won four more years in office, but that is nothing compared to his host, Hun Sen. The 60-year-old Cambodian [...]
Danger on the Mekong
October 28, 2012
By Michael Benge
American Thinker
Like a toxic fungus spreading its roots throughout Cambodia, communist Vietnam is slowly and methodically colonizing and swallowing up its neighbor. Researchers estimate that over 40% of Cambodia’s [...]
Chinese Regime’s Honors for Sihanouk Annoy Netizens
Many Chinese netizens were outraged at the Communist Party’s display of honors for the deceased Cambodian ruler Norodom Sihanouk, who died on Oct. 16 in Beijing.
October 18, 2012
By Ariel Tian
Epoch Times Staff
All the flags at the Xinhua [...]
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk, ruler of Cambodia, died on October 15th, aged 89
IN THE days before Norodom Sihanouk, then 18, succeeded to the throne, a gust put out the sacred candles lit in the palace to mark the event. Courtiers tried to conceal the bad [...]
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk, the former King of Cambodia, who has died aged 89, was only intermittently a monarch; for more than half a century, though, he played a leading part in the tragic post-war history of his country.
15 Oct 2012
The Telegraph
As [...]
“The Map of Lost Memories” by Kim Fay
How can the theft of cultural treasures be anything new? Since time immemorial, we have taken them freely from the conquered. As Genghis Khan once famously put it, “The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, [...]
Cambodia’s former king Sihanouk dies at 89
Norodom Sihanouk, the charismatic former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through six decades of war, genocide and upheaval, died of a heart attack in China on Monday at the age of 89
15/10/2012
By FRANCE 24
Norodom Sihanouk, [...]
Cambodia’s Former King Norodom Sihanouk Dies at 89
Norodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died Monday. He was 89.
By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia October 15, 2012 [...]
Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk dies at 89
(CNN) — Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, who was monarch for more than 60 years until his abdication in 2004, died early Monday in Beijing at the age of 89, state news reported.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Sihanouk was monarch for more [...]
Khmer Rouge photos solve decades old mysteries
Chuon Reaksa was eight-years-old when he last saw his father in 1976. For 36 years, Mr Reaksa has searched for answers about what happened to his father after he disappeared from Cambodia’s Battambang Province during the Khmer Rouge Regime.
Claire [...]
Warning of Return to Violence
2012-08-28
Radio Free Asia
UN special envoy Surya Subedi warns of possible unrest in Cambodia if the authorities refuse to embrace election reforms.
Cambodia may plunge into violence if it does not reform the current electoral system to allow [...]
New photos to help identify victims of Khmer Rouge’s S-21 torture jail
The discovery of more than 1,200 photographs of former prisoners at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture jail has raised hopes that more Cambodians could learn the fate of their relatives.
09 Aug 2012
The Telegraph
The collection of passport-sized [...]
Officials make break in baffling disease killing Cambodian children
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 8, 2012
CNN
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) — Health officials say they have made an important discovery in the mystery surrounding the deaths of 64 children in Cambodia.
The Institut Pasteur in Cambodia tested samples [...]
Cambodia: Reality TV Reunites Families Torn Apart by Khmer Rouge
By Brendan Brady / Phnom Penh | June 20, 2012
http://world.time.com
Harnessing the emotional trauma of one of the 20th century’s most tragic episodes — a nearly four-year ultracommunist revolution that left a quarter of Cambodia’s population [...]