Phnom Penh Post - SRP elevates Mu Sochua
The Sam Rainsy Party elected its first woman as secretary general of the party on
December 25. Mu Sochua, a former minister of women's affairs from 1998 through 2003,
quit the royalist Funcinpec party in 2004 and joined the SRP. According to an SRP
release, Sochua received 44 votes from the 61 members of the SRP Central committee
to 15 votes against, and two invalid votes.
EU officials: Ending EBA an 18-month procedureEU officials have confirmed that it will take a total of 18 months to complete the procedure if Cambodia’s preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) trade agreement is to be withdrawn. According to EU Agriculture and Rural Development spokesman Daniel Rosario, the formal process has not
IPU slams government claimThe president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Gabriela Cuevas Barron, has refuted a claim by the National Assembly that she “highly appreciated the achievements of Cambodia” in its July national elections with a tweet saying “Of course not!” before adding “No congratulations”. A delegation from
Sam Rainsy, government group set to clash at IPU Geneva meet?Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, according to a former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker. A government delegation is also set to attend the meeting, a National Assembly press release
Conflict lingers on Paris AccordsAs the Kingdom prepares to commemorate on October 23 the 27th anniversary of the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, which ushered in an end to nearly two decades of civil war, there is political conflict on whether the tenets of the agreement are still being
