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Court Ejects CNRP Lawmakers From Hearing
Lawyers for 11 opposition CNRP activists facing insurrection charges Thursday walked out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in protest after the judges refused to let three CNRP lawmakers facing the same charges observe what was supposed to be the first full day of hearings.
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Inmate-initiated survey slams Kingdom’s courts
A group of foreign inmates in the capital’s Prey Sar prison have collected what they claim is evidence of failures in the justice system, and yesterday called on the government to investigate their findings.
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Sen Sok Families Left Out of Deal File Complaint
Representatives of more than 160 families involved in a land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district on Thursday filed a complaint with City Hall and delivered a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet, calling on authorities to keep their former ally from developing the contested plot.
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VN wedding bells spark hope
Activists working on LGBT rights issues in Cambodia are optimistic that Vietnam’s historic decision to repeal its ban on gay marriage will have a positive influence on their own efforts to improve the quality of life for the community here.
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Strike two for CNRP trial
The trial of 11 Cambodia National Rescue Party officials and activists charged with insurrection was sidetracked for a second time in two weeks yesterday after two opposition lawmakers were banned from the public gallery, prompting defence lawyers to boycott the hearing.
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Scores of Workers Faint at Kandal Garment Factory
More than 60 workers collapsed at the Sun Best garment factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district on Thursday morning, according to a factory representative.
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Lor Peang Protesters Demand Commission Chair Step Down
More than four months after first taking their complaint over a land dispute to the National Assembly’s human rights commission, 50 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province on Thursday protested in front of the assembly, calling for the commission’s head to resign for failing to resolve the dispute.
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Medical Students Protest Price of Final-Year Certification Exam
About 50 students from the state-run University of Health Sciences protested outside the school Thursday to demand a decrease in the $125 fee they must pay to take their exit examination, which certifies them as medical doctors.
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Kuoy, Phnong air grievances
Minority Kuoy and Phnong community members from Preah Vihear and Mondulkiri provinces are demanding that the government cancel economic land concessions granted to two Chinese companies and a Vietnamese firm for allegedly violating land laws.
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Union Development Group re-opens road
A Chinese-owned company embroiled in a land dispute with villagers in Koh Kong province agreed yesterday to reopen a road that it had blocked on Wednesday, sparking violent clashes.
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Trade Volume Exceeds $18 Billion in 2014
Cambodia’s total trade volume reached $18.1 billion last year, a 13.8 percent increase over $15.9 billion the year before, with the country’s trade deficit widening by more than half a billion dollars, according to the Commerce Ministry and state media.
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Workers Earning Up to $200 to Avoid Salary Tax
Low-wage workers will be able to earn up to $200 a month before their salary is taxed at the minimum 5 percent rate, raising the tax-free threshold by about $75 from the current $125, according to a notice released Wednesday by the general department of taxation.
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Rocks, Petrol Bombs Thrown in Botum Sakor Land Dispute
The Ministry of Environment said it would send a delegation to Koh Kong province in an attempt to resolve a long-running land dispute pitting villagers against a Chinese firm after a fight broke out between the residents and company security guards Wednesday afternoon.
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Locals Fearful of Eviction Due to Riverfront Development Plan
Residents of Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district living along the 2-km stretch of riverfront property the municipality plans to turn into a public park expressed concern Wednesday that they could be evicted without compensation.
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Tensions up in Phnom Kulen
Siem Reap authorities and migrants are negotiating for the release of two villagers who were arrested on Monday, after nearly 300 people yesterday protested the recent demolition of their shelters, which were illegally built at the foot of the province’s Phnom Kulen National Park.
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Minority Families File Complaint Against Chinese Firm
Nearly two dozen ethnic Kuoy families filed a complaint with the Preah Vihear Provincial Court on Tuesday, accusing a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation of clearing their rice fields and resin trees last week, according to villagers.
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‘Technical Error’ Caused Court To Summon CNRP Lawmakers
The lawyers for the four opposition CNRP lawmakers called to appear before the Supreme Court later this month for a hearing over their “insurrection” charges—despite their immunity from prosecution—on Tuesday said that the issuing of the summonses was due to “a technical error.”
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Foreigner round-up rolls on with arrest of 38 Vietnamese
In the first week of this year, the government has kept the foreigner census deportations going with the arrest of 38 Vietnamese migrants.
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Ou Virak to open research hub
Human rights activist Ou Virak is opening an independent public policy research hub after vacating his position as chairman of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
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Gov’t to Strictly Enforce Work Permit Law From Next Week
The Interior Ministry will next week begin strictly enforcing laws requiring foreigners employed in the country to have work permits, an official at the ministry’s immigration department said Tuesday.
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