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Land Rights Activists Petition EU Ambassador
About 80 activists from a trio of Phnom Penh communities protested against their past and pending eviction in front of the European Union Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, hoping to win its help in settling their land disputes with the government and a pair of private development firms.
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Prison for Thai Drug Traffickers
Two Thai women sentenced to life yesterday for allegedly smuggling more than half a kilogram of cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia in May last year.
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Rainsy Criticizes Chinese Funding of Funcinpec
The Chinese Communist Party’s continuing financial and material support for the Funcinpec Party, which includes the provision of electric bicycles and assistant with paying bills, is illegal under Cambodia’s political parties’ law, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Wednesday.
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Education Official Says Don’t Jail Exam Cheats
A senior Education Ministry official yesterday said the jailing students caught cheating, as threatened by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Tuesday, was the wrong approach to cleaning up the national high school exam.
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Cambodian Shot Killed in Thailand
A Cambodian national was fatally shot near the Thailand-Cambodia border on Wednesday in the latest of a string of deadly incidents along the border this month, officials said yesterday.
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On-the-Run Crocodile Farmer Fights Jail Term
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of local businesswoman who is on the run after being sentenced to jail in 2012 for encroaching on public land and illegally filling in part of a lake in Phnom Penh.
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12 Jailed After Wedding Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured
Twelve men remained yesterday in a Phnom Penh jail after a Sunday night wedding brawl that left one man dead and another injured.
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Former Clerk From Banteay Meanchey Jailed
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced a former Banteay Meanchey provincial court clerk to two years in jail after finding him guilty on corruption and bribery charge brought by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU).
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Sar Kheng Calls for Officials to Disrupt Stung Treng Drug Route
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday called for increased vigilance at border checkpoints in Stung Treng province, where he says local officials have been seduced into colluding with traffickers transporting drugs from the Golden Triangle into Cambodia.
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CNRP Leaders Lobby EU Parliamentarians Over 'Blood Sugar’
The opposition CNRP made another pitch for an end to free trade benefits for Cambodian sugar export to the European Union at a meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday with visiting European Parliament members, blaming the benefits for effectively subsidizing companies that are evicting poor local formers.
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Conflicting Accounts of activists’ Bus Shooting
More than 50 land rights activists from two Phnom Penh communities filed a complaint yesterday with police over an incident in which an unidentified man allegedly fired a shot at a bus transporting them from an anti-eviction protest in Siem Reap to Phnom Penh.
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Family of Slain Protesters Questioned Despite Closed Investigation
Family members of two men slain by military police in violent suppression of a garment worker protest in January were question yesterday at the Ministry of Interior, although the investigation into the killing was officially declared closed on March 16.
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Rainsy Calls For Rally at Freedom Park This Weekend
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said yesterday that the CNRP will on Sunday hold its first gathering at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park since the government sent men wielding metal rods and axes to clear the site on January 4.
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Concerns Mount Over Khmer Krom Rights in Treason Trial
Fears are mounting that Friday’s treason trial against seven ethnic Khmer and Khmer Krom men arrested in Thailand and spirited back to Cambodia last year will be a sham, an advocacy group warned yesterday, citing a lack of evidence implicating the men.
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Drug Authority Appeals Crusade Against Smoking Shisha
One day after the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) announced the rise in seizures of serious narcotics in the country; it turned its attention yesterday to another social menace: smoking shisha.
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Judges Required to Explain Reasons Behind Pre-Trial Detention
Judges are now required to write a reasoned explanation when placing citizens in pre-trial detention, instead of simply checking a box as was previously practiced, Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana said yesterday.
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Anime NGO Encourages Rural Children to Dream
Japan’s distinctive animated movies have become ubiquitous in recent years, with their saucer-eyed cartoon characters permeating both Asian and Western culture. A small Japanese NGO based in Siem Reap province believes “anime” can also inspire poor Cambodian children to dream of brighter future.
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ACU Says Tainted Health Officials Were Never Investigated
An official with the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said yesterday that stuff there were specifically instructed not to investigate allegations of large scale bribery inside the health Ministry so that the unit could settle the case out of court.
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New Mutation in Bird Flu Virus in Cambodia
Last year’s jump in avian influenza cases among Cambodians could be due to a mutation of the virus in Cambodia and southern Vietnam, experts said yesterday at a meeting in Phnom Penh.
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Rainsy Returns From Abroad, Threatens Demonstrations Again
Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy returned from a trip to Australia yesterday and threatened the resumption of mass demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen if the ruling CPP continues to uses to refuse opposition demands to reform the National Election Committee (NEC).
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