Rong Chhun, an outspoken political activist who had served time in prison in recent years, has announced his intention to enter politics with the Candlelight Party (CP) and run in the parliamentary ...

LOS ANGELES – A self-appointed commander of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters, a Long Beach-based group formed to seize political control in the country, was sentenced Monday to a concurrent term of 37 ...

LOS ANGELES – An accountant was convicted Wednesday of orchestrating a failed attempt to overthrow the Cambodian government with a handful of rebel fighters who attacked government buildings in the ...

Peter Chhun, the founder of Long Beach nonprofit Hearts without Boundaries, which helped save the lives of about 100 poor Cambodian children with heart ailments, has died. He was 71. Chhun, a ...

“The legal procedures brought against [Rong Chhun] were not due to his exercise of freedom of speech but because he had committed a crime.” On August 17, Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian ...

Yasith Chhun never made a secret about his plans to overthrow Cambodia’s government. The Long Beach man boasted to reporters about his role in a rebel attack in Phnom Penh in 2000 that resulted in the ...

Yasith Chhun was hailed in the national media as the “strip mall revolutionary” whose scrappy band of immigrants conspired against Cambodia’s Communist government and raised money for their cause from ...

A prominent activist in Southern California’s Cambodian community has been indicted on charges that he masterminded a 2000 attack on several Cambodian government buildings. Yasith Chhun, 48, of Long ...

LOS ANGELES – LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California accountant was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison in Los Angeles for orchestrating a failed attempt to overthrow the Cambodian government in 2000. Yasith ...

Before arranging a meeting in a Phnom Penh coffeeshop, Chamnap Chhun laid out a list of what to avoid: pictures, mention of age, legal name and hometown. “I play two different people,” he explains.