Tag: Cambodia
Opposition politician arrested in Cambodia
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, son of former Prime Minister Hun Sen who was in power for almost 40 years. Archive image. Photo: Heng Sinith/AP/TT…
Hun Sen, elected senator, does not let go of the reins of power
Members of Cambodia’s lower house and local councilors voted this Sunday, February 25, to elect senators. Former Prime Minister Hun Sen, running under the banner of his eldest son’s ruling…
Sports Short: Goselink from Indonesia to Cambodia, Kampong players guide the Dutch past Spain
HANDBALL Laura van der Heijden from Leusden and Angela Malestein from Bunschoten have been selected for the upcoming European Championship qualifying matches of the Dutch team. They will play four…
appointment by Parliament of Hun Manet as Prime Minister, in the shadow of the father
After almost four decades in power, the Prime Minister, Hun Sen, gave way to his eldest son Hun Manet, 45, who must be confirmed Prime Minister and his government by…
Found in the school yard! Thousands of unexploded ordnance…
The Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) announced that thousands of unexploded ordnance from the Cambodian Civil War, which began in 1967 and ended in 1957, were found in the garden…
The Prime Minister’s son takes over in Cambodia
full screen Hun Manet, son of longtime leader Hun Sen, previously served as the country’s army chief. Archive image. Photo: Heng Sinith/AP/TT Cambodia’s longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen has formally…
Cambodia warns: Do not use the cluster bombs
Cluster bombs, or cluster munitions, are fired from the air or the ground. When they explode, they release many smaller explosive charges that spread out over a larger area. Similar…
Cambodia: trade unionist Chhim Sithar sentenced to two years in prison
In Phnom Penh, nine union representatives were found guilty this morning of “incitement to disturb public order”. Facts regularly reproached to activists and politicians who are members of the opposition.…
Sera, and Cambodia turns red
In Khmer, to have “the soul at the edge of the hair” means “to be scared to death”. For the first time, Séra, a Franco-Cambodian author, delivers an autobiographical and…
Alice Dumas Kol, return to Cambodia in the footsteps of her family history
Alice Dumas Kol was born in New York in 1989 and grew up in Paris. She exercises her profession as a psychoanalyst there after having worked for the ballet Preljocaj…