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Transport Ministry Calls for Crackdown on Illegal Checkpoints
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has urged local authorities to step up the elimination of illegal checkpoints in their jurisdictions amid a high-profile probe of military police who opened fire on a truck that sped through two checkpoints in Tbong Khmum province earlier this month.
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Ministry to curb illegal checkpoints
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport called on the directors of public works in Phnom Penh and the provinces to crack down on fraudulent truck-weighing checkpoints around the country. The announcement follows an incident at a legitimate weigh station in Tbong Khmum province where authorities chased after and shot at a truck which had run through the checkpoint, fearing it to be a fake.
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Nancy Pelosi Leads US Delegation to Cambodia
Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, is expected to meet with human rights groups in Phnom Penh on Monday during the first stop on a five-nation Asia tour that will focus on human rights, trade and security cooperation.
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Brit professor officially named as rapporteur
British academic Rhona Smith has officially replaced Nepalese law professor Surya Subedi as the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia. Smith, 45, an international human rights law professor at the University of Northumbria in England and a visiting professor at Cambodia’s Pannasastra University, was officially appointed to the role on Friday at the closing of the 28th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Details emerge of refugee meet
Refugees who met with Cambodian immigration officials last week on the Pacific island of Nauru were told they would be given permanent visas and travel documents but would have to pay for English-language education and would lose all but emergency financial support after a year, a refugee said.
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Disaster alert system begins
Starting today, residents of Banteay Meanchey, Pursat and Kampong Thom provinces can enroll in a disaster-response calling service through their phones in anticipation of the impending rainy season.
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Six Vietnamese Charged Over Logging; Military Collusion Alleged
The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Friday charged six Vietnamese nationals with illegally logging in the province’s O’Reang district, where they were caught felling first-grade Sokrom trees after allegedly crossing into Cambodia with the help of a local military officer, officials said Sunday.
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Cambodian child labour laws flouted with fake IDs
Like most teenagers, Jorani, who says she is 14, has plenty of stamina. She has just spent the day making hundreds of shoes at the New Star Shoes Co factory in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. “I punch holes in about 300 shoes every day, and work eight hours a day, six days a week,” she says, in a barely audible voice. “But I don’t get too tired.”
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Husband of Acid Attack Victim to File Complaint Against Court
The husband of a woman attacked with acid at a market in Takeo province in November plans to file complaints Monday with the Supreme Council of the Magistracy and the Anti-Corruption Unit, claiming local court officials are to blame for a lack of action in the case.
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Cambodia ‘measles free’, WHO reports
The World Health Organization has declared Cambodia measles-free, having not registered a confirmed case in over three years, marking a success in combating what was once the country’s most deadly communicable disease.
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‘Insurrection’ Trial Begins for Opposition Figures
The trial of 11 opposition figures accused of leading or participating in an insurrection began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday, with the prosecutor questioning just two of the suspects.
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Senior Cambodian Opposition Official Summoned to Court
Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, has been summoned to appear in Phnom Penh Municipal Court a week after being threatened with a lawsuit by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Defense attorney Chen Chan told VOA the lawmaker likely will be questioned on April 8 about violent demonstrations held in Phnom Penh last July, for which 11 opposition supporters are being tried for insurrection and other charges.
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Opposition gathering to remember 1997 attack
The Cambodia National Rescue Party will hold a ceremony today to commemorate the anniversary of a deadly grenade attack on an opposition rally in Phnom Penh 18 years ago. During the March 30, 1997, attack on demonstrators protesting for better labour rights and wage increases for garment workers, three grenades killed 16 people and wounded hundreds more.
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Villagers in Cambodia taught to fight back against land grabs
Now the vast expanse lies bare and dry, levelled by bulldozers and set to become yet another rubber tree plantation. It is a picture seen across the country as local and foreign corporations are granted land concessions by the Cambodian Government, leading to disputes affecting some 500,000 people. Australians are helping to combat the so-called land grabbing through a program teaching locals to fight back.
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Khmer Rouge leader charged with crimes against humanity
Mid-ranking regime cadre Ao An, believed to be 79 and better known as Ta An, is alleged to have carried out crimes at an execution site and in two security centres during the regime's brutal rule in the 1970s. He appeared before tribunal judge Mark Harmon in northwestern Battambang province on Friday to hear the charges but was not arrested, court spokesman Lars Olsen told AFP. "The charged person is presumed innocent until proven guilty through a final judgement," Olsen said. A decision on whether or not An's case will be sent to trial is not expected before next year, he added. The news will not be welcomed by Cambodia's strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen - himself a former Khmer Rouge cadre - who spoke out earlier this month against further prosecutions, warning they could ignite a civil war.
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Cambodia’s Vibrant Civil Society
U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama's recent historic visit to Cambodia has generated a lot of discussion about the importance of girls' education and the role that we all can play in helping girls go to school and stay in school. During her visit Mrs. Obama attended one of the very first training sessions of the new Let Girls Learn initiative, a U.S. government-wide program that will work at the grassroots level and with local and national officials in developing countries around the world to break down barriers to girls' education. In doing so, I sincerely believe that our joint efforts will lead to a better future for not just a small group of girls, but for an entire generation of youth.
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KRT Charges Second Suspect In Case 004
Former Khmer Rouge official Ao An, better known by his alias “Ta An,” on Friday became the third mid-ranking cadre to be charged this month by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia over alleged crimes against humanity committed during the Pol Pot era. More than five years after investigations into the case began, International Co-Investigating Judge Mark Harmon charged Ta An with premeditated homicide and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, persecution on political and religious grounds, imprisonment, and other inhumane acts.
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Suspect fronts KRT to face accusations
Despite strong government opposition, the UN-backed Khmer Rouge trial yesterday charged another former Khmer Rouge official in Case 004, with former deputy Central Zone secretary Ao An, better known as Ta An, appearing in person at the court to face allegations of crimes against humanity and premeditated murder.
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‘Insurrection’ Trial Begins for Opposition Figures
The trial of 11 opposition figures accused of leading or participating in an insurrection began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday, with the prosecutor questioning just two of the suspects. Oeur Narith, an assistant to CNRP public affairs director Mu Sochua, and Khin Chamreoun, head of the CNRP Youth wing in Phnom Penh, were called by Presiding Judge Lim Makaron to give their version of events on July 15, when a protest to open the heavily fortified Freedom Park became a brawl between district security guards and opposition supporters.
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Cambodia internet subscriber base jumps 30% in 2014
Cambodia added 1.16 million new internet subscribers in 2014, reaching a total 5.02 million internet users at 31 December. This represents an increase of 30 percent 3.86 million internet subscribers in December 2013, the Phnom Penh Post reports, citing data released by Telecom Regulator Cambodia (TRC). According to TRC chairman Mao Chakrya, it is difficult to determine the number of internet users, because each subscription usually has multiple users.
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