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Five Months On, Witnesses Recall Muon Sokmean’s Beating
Muon Sokmean, a 29-year-old garment worker, scrambled off Veng Sreng Street on January 3 with military police in violent pursuit, brandishing their batons.
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Police Say No Criminal Charges Against Hit-and-Run Officer
Police said yesterday that they will not pursue charges against Ek Sovannara- the son of a former Kandal provincial police chief- whose Lexus SUV on April 12 crashed into a motorbike carrying three men, killing one and causing the other two to have their left legs amputated.
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Protester Injured at Rally Dies
Before dawn on Saturday, family members of Moun Sokmean found him distressed and incoherent.
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Grenade Attack on K Thom Deputy Chief Prosecutor’s Home
A grenade was thrown into the home of Kompong Thom Provincial Court deputy prosecutor Say Nora on Saturday night but the official escaped injury as he was not at home when the device exploded, police said.
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TVK Director Resigns, Apparently in Response to Gov’t Criticism
Kem Gunawadh, the long-serving director-general of TVK who helped set up the state broadcaster in 1983, resigned abruptly on Saturday in what his successor said was a reaction to government criticism over his decision not to broadcast live that morning’s annual Royal Plowing Ceremony.
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Teachers Union Pushes for Insurance Benefits
Public school teachers are demanding the government provide them the health insurance their meagre civil servant salaries can’t cover.
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The Rising Union Leader Behind the Caltex Station Closures
In his fight workers’ rights, Sar Mora has learned to be stubborn.
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Election Strikes to Script Gains for CNRP as CPP Takes 195 Districts
Cambodia’s subnational elections went off without a hitch yesterday, with the opposition’s improved performance in 2012’s commune elections translating into solid gains at the district, provincial, and municipal levels through a bit more modest than the party had predicted.
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After Weeks in Prison, General Given Pardon
After serving just a few weeks of an eight-month prison sentence, a two-star general of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was granted a royal pardon on Friday, a decision described by some as a “mockery of justice” and others as not surprising.
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Credentials Were Faked, Policy Say
Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court on Saturday charged an unemployed 23-year-old man with impersonating a military police officer and using the guise to defraud two men out of $6,000 – a payment they believed would buy them jobs with the military police in Phnom Penh, authorities said yesterday.
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Six Arrested for Gang Rape of 14-year-olg Girl
Three men and three minors were arrested in Pailin City on Friday for the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl, according to police.
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Talk of Betrayal as CNRP Loses Race in Prey Veng
Sithor Kandal district, Prey Veng province- Anyone passing through Prey Doeum Thnoeng could be forgiven for pinning the tidy little village for a stronghold of the ruling CPP.
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Worker Beaten on Veng Sreng in January Dies of Head Injuries
A man who was beaten by military police during the lethal suppression of a nationwide strike of garment workers in January died his head injuries on Saturday, his family said yesterday.
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Royal Oxen Predict Moderate Harvest in 2014
Takhmao City, Kandal provice- After circling the field inside the sports stadium here three times, a pair of oxen, being watched by King Norodom Sihamoni and about 500 others on Saturday, were let to seven bowls containing rice, corn, sesame seeds, beans, freshly cut grass, water and rice wine
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CPP Sweeps Council Polls, As Expected
The ruling CPP coasted to a series of expected victories in yesterday’s council elections as all but three of the country’s 11,459 commune councilors for the districts, provinces and municipalities they fall under.
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Victim’s Kin ‘no right to cash’
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has defended its decision not to pay a survivors’ pension to the family of a teenager killed in a ceiling collapse at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province last May.
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Chong Villagers Block Chinese Engineers From Reaching Dam
A group of 20 ethnic minority Chong villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley blocked the road Friday to prevent a group of Chinese engineers from reaching the site of a controversial proposed dam.
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Judicial Laws Put Independence of Courts in Jeopardy
Three constitutionally mandated judicial laws would adversely affect the independence of the court if they are passed in their current draft state, legal experts warned on Friday.
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Opposition Party Blasts NEC for Censorship of Campaign Video
The National Election Committee (NEC) admitted Friday it had axed some footage from an opposition-produced video that was broadcast on state TV Thursday night as part an equal-airtime policy during the council election campaign period.
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15,000 March For CNRP; City Hall to File Complaint
The opposition CNRP used the final day of the council election campaign Friday to stage the largest political rally of the year, with up to 15,000 people marching from the southern limits of Phnom Penh to Wat Phnom in the north.
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