Thomico to F'pec: Stop using King-Father's name, you losers!

Funcinpec officials pay a visit to King-Father in Beijing

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

An 11-member Funcinpec delegation led by Keo Puth Rasmey, the party president, visited China under an invitation for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Taking the opportunity of the visit in Beijing, the delegation also visited former monarch King Norodom Sihanouk on Sunday, the former king is currently in Beijing for health checkup. The Funcinpec delegation visit to King-Father took place at a time when Prince Thomico called on this party to stop using King-Father’s name for their election campaign during the upcoming 2008 general election. Prince Thomico said in a letter issued on Monday, that Funcinpec will lose the upcoming election and this lost will lead the public to stop having faith in Sihanoukism, the Funcinpec party’s political standing. The prince indicated that if Princess Arunrasmi, the daughter of King-Father and a candidate for the prime minister position, should stop using the name of King-Father anymore if she does not follow the political path set by King-Father.

Keo Puth Rasmey and F'pec delegation in China ... to visit King-Father also?

Senior CPC official meets Cambodian guests

BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Wang Gang met here Sunday with a delegation from Cambodia's Funcinpec Party led by Chairman Keo Puth Rasmey.

Describing China and Cambodia as good neighbors, good friends and good partners, Wang said the two countries have maintained frequent high-level visits in recent years, and expanded exchanges and cooperation in various areas.

Since the CPC and the Funcinpec Party established inter-party relations in 1995, they have witnessed a rapid increase of exchanges and deepening of cooperation, Wang said.

He told Rasmey, who is also deputy prime minister of Cambodia, that the CPC treasures its relations with the Funcinpec Party, and is ready to further beef up bilateral cooperation and make greater contribution to cementing China-Cambodia all-round cooperative partnership.

Wang also briefed Rasmey about the 17th CPC National Congress as well as China's economic and social development.