Thursday, September 18, 2008

Hun Sen's "charity" for the prince: The Powerful Pauper and the Poor Exiled Prince?

Cambodian PM hopes Prince Ranariddh to return home from Malaysia

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he wanted self-exiled Prince Norodom Ranariddh to return home from Malaysia in the traditional Pchum Ben festival falling on Sept. 29.

"My intention needs the Prince to come back to have reconciliation for our nation and myself also want to do a good charity in the festival," Hun Sen said at a graduation ceremony at the National Institute of Education.

"The Prince and I used to have verbal attack but now it is over," he said, adding that Ranariddh needs pardon from the King.

Ranariddh, who left Cambodia last year under a cloud of legal problems, is living in Malaysia.

In October 2006, he was ousted from the Funcinpec Party and he created a new party under his own name, the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP), which won two seats in the National Assembly in the July 27 national election.

Meanwhile, Hun Sen also revealed that if the newly elected members of the National Assembly from NRP want to join the committees in the parliament, they have to send their names to the National Assembly and prepare a name list for approving in package voting.

The new mandate of National Assembly will have the swearing-in ceremony on Sept. 24.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet you 1 billion US dollars that Ranaridick will come back to Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Hey! you don't have that much money, 1:44am!

Who care about the dog mat a monkey? I am not crazy cientice!

Anonymous said...

I just wonder how NHEK BUN CHHAY feel when RANARITH return.

SpicyGroup said...

Why the prince is so afraid of difficulty?

Don't he want to have his name in Britainica Encyclopedia like Hun Sen ?

Congratulation to Samdech Decho Hun Sen for having his name in the new 2007 Britainica book.

However, please check the content again! I feel so pity to Hun Sen for leaving such name in the World History.

In 2000, he said he wanted to stay in power for 10 more years.

On September 17, 2008, he said that he is still strong at 2013 and he will continue forever.

Imagine, how would Britainnica Encyclopeadia will describe Hun Sen, then?