{"id":49590,"date":"2019-11-09T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49590"},"modified":"2019-11-09T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:25:12","slug":"cambodias-sam-rainsy-faces-hurdles-as-he-attempts-to-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49590","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia&#8217;s Sam Rainsy Faces Hurdles As He Attempts To Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov 9 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; It appears Nov 9 (today), will come and go, without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/cambodia.html\">Cambodia<\/a>&#8216;s opposition, making its promised return, after leader, Sam Rainsy, failed to board a flight from Paris to Thailand, on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rainsy, acting president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), said, he had a ticket to Bangkok arriving on Nov 8, and from there would enter Cambodia by land the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thai Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-ocha, however, ordered that Rainsy not be permitted to enter the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They say they have received very high-up instruction not to allow me to board,&#8221; Rainsy told reporters at Charles de Gaulle airport, claiming he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/cambodia-rainsy-refused-boarding-paris-bangkok-flight-191107114205502.html\">barred from boarding his Thai Airways flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An airline employee said that Rainsy did not have a valid ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, Rainsy posted a photo on social media of his ticket, along with his booking reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The booking appeared to show that Rainsy had reserved a flight leaving Paris Nov 9, not Nov 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ear Sophal, a Cambodian-American associate professor at Occidental College, said, a third party could have changed Rainsy&#8217;s ticket, after he tweeted it, or the airline may have considered his ticket invalid, because he was barred from the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multiple Cambodian social media users question why Rainsy chose to fly with Thai Airways, after Chan-ocha&#8217;s statement.&#8211; NNN-AKP <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov 9 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; It appears Nov 9 (today), will come and go, without Cambodia&#8216;s opposition, making its promised return, after leader, Sam Rainsy, failed to board a flight from Paris to Thailand, on Thursday. Rainsy, acting president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), said, he had a ticket to Bangkok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}