Hun Sen

Briefs, February 25, 2013

25 Feb 2013

Japan said three Chinese surveillance ships entered its territorial waters off disputed East China Sea islands. The three ships entered the 12-nautical-mile territorial zone off Uotsuri, part of...

5:43AM

Who said it?

4 Feb 2013

There have never before been groups agitating for social change. For a government that has been in power for so long, it's a worry

Naly Pilorge, director of a human rights group, on the...

3:02AM

Rising grass-roots anger shaking Hun Sen's pedestal

4 Feb 2013

Chray Nhim received just seven days notice telling her that she was to be evicted from her house near Phnom Penh's airport without compensation.

5:53AM

Obama critical of Cambodia’s human rights record

20 Nov 2012

On a history-making trip, President Barack Obama paid the first visit by an American leader to Myanmar and Cambodia, two Asian countries with troubled histories, one on the mend and the other...

2:29PM

Hun Sen aims to rule until he is 90

20 Nov 2012

US President Barack Obama arrived in Cambodia last night having just won four more years in office, but that is nothing compared to his host, Hun Sen.

3:25AM

Former king Norodom Sihanouk mourned

18 Oct 2012

Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of the Cambodian capital yesterday to pay their last respects to revered former king Norodom Sihanouk on his final journey home from China.

10:12AM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Cambodian parties team up to fight PM Hun Sen

Cambodia’s two main opposition parties have joined forces to challenge Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 27-year grip on power at a general election next July, a spokesman for the new group said.

3:11PM

Asean left on a knife-edge

As the dust settles from an Asean meeting last week marked by unprecedented rancour over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, the focus of those pondering the future of the grouping is...

9:49PM

Cambodia offers fun in the sun

Think of golden sand, glorious beaches and luxury retreats in Asia, and Cambodia might not immediately spring to mind. However, Cambodia is ascending as a tourist destination, especially its...

6:49PM

Gamblers roll in to Phnom Penh as guns go quiet

Fifteen years on, the guns are silent in Phnom Penh, the big Naga Floating Resorts Casino appears to be flourishing and developers dream of superhighways with luxury buses, replete with massage...

6:30PM

FBI urged to renew probe of grenade attack

Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy called yesterday for the FBI to renew its investigation into a grenade attack that killed at least 16 people more than a decade ago.

12:01AM

Hun Sen's friends and family outed in illegal logging expose

Cambodia's biggest illicit timber firm linked to prime minister

Cambodia's most powerful illegal logging operation is run by relatives and friends of Prime Minister Hun Sen, says a...

9:35AM