Kuch Naren
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Sex, Lies, Tragedy: Classic Yike Explores Duplicity in Musical
The theater director, staging a performance of the story of “Kakei” in musical theater yike on Sunday night in Phnom Penh, hopes to challenge the centuries-old notion that the protagonist is a “bad girl.” → Read More
As Count Ticks Upward, Parties Spin Competing Narratives
With official tallies from Sunday’s commune elections slowed by internet hiccups, both major political parties provided similar results but different stories on Monday on which had won a vote that drew a record 7 million Cambodians to the polls—300,000 more than had been previously reported by the National Election Committee (NEC). → Read More
Widow of UN Peacekeeper Who Died of Malaria Gets $70K
The widow of a U.N. peacekeeper from Cambodia who died of complications after contracting malaria in January received $70,000 in compensation from the U.N. on Wednesday. → Read More
CNRP Cites Poll, Rallies as Reasons for Election Optimism
A poll distributed to major political parties earlier this year emboldened opposition leader Kem Sokha to predict that the CNRP would win 60 percent of the vote in Sunday’s commune elections, a party spokesman has revealed. → Read More
No Investigation Into Prime Minister’s Comments: NEC
The National Election Committee reiterated on Friday that it would not investigate Prime Minister Hun Sen’s election campaign speeches about waging war to maintain power because the election body had not received a complaint, saying it was taking a similar stance regarding opposition advertisements featuring former CNRP President Sam Rainsy. → Read More
NEC: No Complaints Filed Against Prime Minister Over War Rhetoric
No complaints have been filed with the National Election Committee over the Prime Minister’s election campaign speeches about waging war to maintain power, so the NEC will not investigate his public comments, spokesman Hang Puthea said on Friday. → Read More
Salary, Energy Rate Reforms Validate CNRP Agenda: Sokha
Critics who say the CNRP’s commune election platform is unrealistic should look to the ruling party’s implementation of lowered electricity costs, and salary hikes for civil servants and soldiers, issues the opposition championed during the 2013 national election, CNRP President Kem Sokha said on Wednesday. → Read More
Political Parties Can Distribute Leaflets Inside Markets, NEC Says
The National Election Committee (NEC), in an effort to avoid complaints that dogged past elections, has issued specific rules allowing political parties to distribute leaflets inside markets during the commune election campaign period. → Read More
Wives of Killed UN Peacekeepers Tell of Shock and Sadness
When Tann Phearoth received a telephone call from Central African Republic (CAR) early on Tuesday morning, she thought it would be her husband. Since becoming a U.N. peacekeeper four years ago, Im Sam had regularly phoned his wife while on overseas missions. → Read More
Bodies of Peacekeepers Headed Home
Cambodia is to send a team from the Defense Ministry to investigate an attack that killed four Cambodians attached to a U.N. Peacekeeping force in Central African Republic (CAR), Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday. → Read More
Three Missing Peacekeepers Found Dead in CAR
Three U.N. peacekeepers from Cambodia reported missing yesterday following an ambush in the Central African Republic (CAR) were killed, Prime Minister Hun Sen said this morning. → Read More
Cambodian UN Peacekeeper Killed, Three Missing in Central African Republic
A U.N. peacekeeper from Cambodia was shot dead during an ambush in the Central African Republic on Tuesday and Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the safe release of three others who went missing. → Read More
Cambodian Peacekeeper Killed, Three Missing in Central African Republic
A Cambodian peacekeeper was killed—possibly beheaded—by rebels in the Central African Republic on Monday night and three others are currently missing, Prime Minister Hun Sen and the South Korean ambassador announced this morning. → Read More
Hun Sen Takes Swipe at Opposition at Red Cross Fundraiser
Prime Minister Hun Sen got political on Monday during an annual fundraiser for the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC), an ostensibly neutral organization the premier’s wife has previously used to campaign for the ruling CPP. → Read More
PM Hit With ‘Exhaustion,’ Currently Recovering in Singapore
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Thursday that he has been hospitalized in Singapore with “extreme exhaustion” and could remain there until at least Sunday, which would mean missing a series of planned meetings with foreign diplomats, military officials and civil servants, according to a post uploaded to the premier’s Facebook page. → Read More
Independent Observer Ranks for Commune Elections Swell
More than 20,000 people have registered as independent observers for the upcoming commune elections—far more than five years ago—with three weeks still to go until the enrollment deadline. → Read More
CNRP Courts US Support in Anticipation of ‘Positive Change’
Opposition leader Kem Sokha has lined up a series of meetings with U.S. officials over the next two days as the party seeks closer international scrutiny of upcoming elections and what it hopes could be the first democratic transition of power in Cambodia. → Read More
CNRP Officials to Visit Migrants, Build Support in South Korea
CNRP vice presidents-elect Pol Ham and Eng Chhay Eang are expected to arrive in South Korea on Thursday to meet Cambodian migrant workers. → Read More
Deporting Cambodians From the US a ‘Sad Separation,’ PM Says
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday called on the U.S. to revise a repatriation agreement with Cambodia in order to allow Cambodians living under threat of deportation from the U.S. to stay with their families and avoid “a sad separation.” → Read More
Hun Sen Defends Spotty Record on Cambodians Working Abroad
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday defended his government’s often-criticized record on trying to find work for Cambodian citizens overseas, claiming he was working hard to find jobs in the Middle East for the country’s Muslims. → Read More