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Government Works on Australia Refugee Plea
Government officials have got to work parsing a controversial request that Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the region with a spotty record handling refugees, take some of Australia’s asylum seekers.
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US Uphold Life Sentence For CFF Leader
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a life sentence against Cambodian-American Chhun Yasith, leader of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF), an anti-Hun Sen rebel group, for his bungled 2000 attack on Phnom Penh that left at least seven CFF members dead.
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Be Glad You’re Not Paid in Rice, Prime Minister Tells Teachers
Prime Minister Hun Sen advised the country the newest crop of teachers not to feel down about their poor salaries, recalling were that they embarking on their careers in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime their pay would be a few bags of rice each month.
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Court Orders New Probe of Chea Vichea Murder
The Supreme Court has ordered Phnom Penh Municipal Court Prosecutor Yeth Chakrya to reinvestigate the 2004 assassination in Phnom Penh of Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Vichea, Supreme Court judge Khim Pon said yesterday.
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Business Employers Say Corruption Greatest Threat to Economy
Corruption remains the most significant challenge facing Cambodia’s economy, according to a survey of more than 300 employers conducted last year by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the result of which were released yesterday.
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Vietnamese Charged With Illegal Logging
The Mondolkiri Provincial Court yesterday charged 15 Vietnamese nationals with illegally crossing the border and logging protected forest, four days after the group was detained by members of the ethnic Bunong minority in a community forest 20 km from the border.
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CPP, CNRP Election Reform Talks Flounder
The bipartisan Election Reform Commission, which has met twice since its creation last month and produced few results, appears to how have broken down entirely, which the ruling CPP saying it will refuse to even consider a provision that the opposition says is fundamental for any further meetings.
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Man Fires Rifle in Rage After Music Turned Off
An argument over loud music broke out at a wedding in Kompot province on Monday, resulting in shots begin fired but not casualties, police said yesterday.
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Six Unions Suspend ‘Stay At Home’ Garment Strike
The majority of garment factory unions organizing a nationwide stay-at-home strike among their members, which was set to begin today, decided to delay their plans until next month following a meeting.
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Cambodia Not Equipped to Help Malaysian Flight Search Efforts
With the hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 comprising 10 nations, including China and the U.S. and employing an array of military civilian officials, Cambodia’s absence from the list of countries, helping in the search is not a surprise, a regional defense expert said yesterday.
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Boy Dies of Bird Flu, Another Boy in Recovery
An 11-year-old boy from Kompong Chhnang province’s Rolea Ba’ier district has died from bird flu while and 8-year-old boy from Kandal province’s Leuk Dek district also contracted the virus but is recovering, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization said in a statement yesterday.
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Government-Formed Land Dispute Committee Suspected of Bias
The Kompong Chhnang provincial government has set up a new committee to help settle long-running land dispute between local farmer and a company owned by the wife of Mine and Energy Minister Suy Sem, but a representative of the villager has not been invited to participate in the committee.
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Villagers Charged With Illegally Clearing Land
The Kratie Provincial Court on Sunday charged three villagers with illegally clearing community forest, and six more for clearing state-owned land, official said yesterday.
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Dual Citizens May Be Banned From Prime Minister Role
Emerging from a meeting on electoral reform yesterday, senior ruling party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said that the government is considering modifying Cambodia’s nationality law to ban those with dual citizenship from ruling for the office of prime minister.
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EU, Government Still at Over Sugar Farm Compensation
The Government and the European Union remained at odds last week over how to compensate families that have lost land to the country’s controversial sugar plantations, even over how many families should be compensated, and seemed to move closer to agreement on the need for an outside party to mediate.
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Hun Sen Says More Die on Roads Than in War
Road traffic accidents are killing more Cambodians per year than those who died annually as a result of war during their country’s more than two decades of armed conflict, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday.
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Whether ‘Yuon’ Is Derogatory or Not Depends On the Vietnamese
The discussion on the use of ‘Yuon’ has been going on for a while now.
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Drawing a Line in the Sand on Land Dispute
In the early 1980s, shortly after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, my stepmother and I were given a small patch of farmland in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district.
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Chinese Firm Continues to Clear Koh Kong Land
Despite orders to stop, the Chinese-owned company Union Development Group (UDG) continues to bulldoze the land of Koh Kong province families to make way for a massive tourist report, villagers and rights groups said yesterday.
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Institute Pasteur Opens New Research Facility
The Institute Pasteur du Cambodge will today inaugurate a new research facility in Phnom Penh that will bring together national and internation scientists to work on emerging disease, the French Embassy said.
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