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Former KPLNF Celebrate 35th Anniversary
Kien Svay district, Kandal province- Thirty-five years after General Dien Del proclaimed that the Khmer people’s National Liberation Armed Forces (KPLNAF) would oppose the new Kanoi-backed communist regime in Phnom Penh, veterans of the resistance movement gathered yesterday to remember their fallen.
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Police officer attacked by sword-wielding thugs
A commune police officer and two of his friends were attacked by 10 men wielding samurai-style swords in Ratanakkiri province’s Kon Mom district in the early hours of yesterday morning, local police said.
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Socheatvong Tells Market Chiefs to Follow Law
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong called a meeting of the city’s district governors, deputy district governors, and public market administrators yesterday to discuss the collection of money in market parking lots and rent from vendors.
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Government Says Abundance of Land for Rubber Investors
The country’s controversial natural rubber industry is open for business despite a standing moratorium on new economic land concession (ELCs), the Cambodian government said at an industry summit in Phnom Penh yesterday, as it also sought to allay concerns that land might be running out.
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Cambodia to Meet Malaysia over maids MoU
The Ministry of Labor said yesterday that the government has agreed on a final draft of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysia regarding sending Cambodian maids to work there, but that no timeframe for the signing of the agreement has been set.
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Obfuscation Reigns Over Ban on Demonstration
The government can’t seem to agree on whether or not Prime Minister Hun Sen has lifted the ban on the constitutional right to freedom of assembly.
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Four Killed in Two Separate Truck Accidents
Three people were killed and another six injured when a truck transporting wooden planks, as well as passengers, overturned yesterday in Kratie province’s Snuol District, police said.
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Road Rage Police Officer Sentenced; Tuk- Tuk Driver Shot
A police officer who was sentenced yesterday to three years in jail for shooting a man in an act of road rage told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court that his jail term was unjust as the bullets he fired after the traffic accident were not aimed directly at his victim.
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Business man Arrested Over sex with girl, 14
A 40-year-old Malaysian man who own a recycling business was arrested on Tuesday in Phnom Penh‘s Sen Sok district of allegedly having sex on three occasions with a 14-year-old worker he had hired, police said.
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CNRP Looks for Quieter Plan of Action as Labor Strike Looms
When a group of six unions organized nationwide strikes in December demanding a $160 minimum wage, the opposition CNRP aggressively took up the cause.
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Cobra-Attack Land Dispute Victim Assaulted With Iron Bar
A man involved in land dispute with a powerful land development company in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district yesterday filed a complaint with a commune police after he was attacked with an iron bar as he drove his motorbike to a local market.
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Cambodia Election Ranked 5th Most Flawed in Survey
A new report by researchers from Harvard University and the University of Sydney has ranked Cambodia’s 2013 national election as the fifth most “flawed or failed” out of 73 national ballots held around the world between July 2012 and December 2013.
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End Right to Unionize, Businesses Ask Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen told business leaders and government officials yesterday that he will not tolerate “illegal” labor strikes that harm investment, but avoided judgment on a request to withdraw ratification of a U.N. convention protecting workers’ rights to unionize.
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City Hall Denies Unions Permission for Freedom Park Forum
A group 18 labor unions and associations said they will proceed with plans for a public forum in Phnom Penh’s freedom park on Saturday, despite City Hall’s rejecting their request, citing public security concerns.
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Discussions Center on Equalizing Cambodia’s LGBT Rights
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists and legal experts began a two-day conference yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss ways to ensure that Cambodia’s LGBT community enjoys equal rights and protections under the law.
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Palm Oil Plantation Accused of Withholding Workers’ Pay
More than 20 families working on a controversial palm oil plantation in Ratanakkiri province owned by the Hoang Anh Lumphat company have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing the owners of improperly withholding one month’s pay.
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WWF Finds Research on Don Sahong Dam Flawed, Unscientific
The environmental impact assessment (EIA) that will allow for the construction of the controversial Don Sahong Dam in southern Laos, just 1.5 km from the Cambodian border, was sloppy, used in appropriate methodology, and was often based on assumptions, environmental watchdog WWF said in its own research published yesterday.
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Court Tries Man Charged With Raping Teenager
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a 32-year-old man charged with raping a 17-year-old university student after first drugging her at a beer garden.
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Hun Sen Urges Artists to Maintain Cultural Integrity
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged Cambodia’s artists to perpetuate the nation’s cultural integrity by refraining from copying foreign art.
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Slow Start for Joint Electoral Reform Commission
The ruling CPP agreed in principle to two of seven proposals put forth by the opposition CNRP yesterday during the first meeting of a joint electoral reform commission.
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