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CPP and CNRP Talk, but No Progress in Ending Impasse
More than six weeks since the ruling CPP and CNRP last met, and failed, to break the post-election political impasse, representatives from both parties restarted negotiation yesterday at the National Assembly, but came nowhere near to setting their different.
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Children, 2 And 8 Years Old, Latest Rape Victims
A 2-year-old girl in Kratie province and an 8 year-old girl in Phnom Penh became the latest victims of child rape late last week in a year that has already seen more than 100 such attack on children, prompting call for a countrywide campaign to high light the prevalence of the brutal crime.
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Land Dispute Families Submit Complaint Over Snake Attack
Three families involved in a land dispute with a private company filed a complaint yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing the company’s owner, businessman Khun Sear, of waging an ongoing campaign of intimidate as he tries to force the families from their homes in Tuol Kok district.
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Chhouk Bundith Triple Shooting Case Called a ‘Mockery’
The Court Appeal yesterday upheld the Svay Rieng Provincial Court’s verdict in the case of former Bavet City governor Chhouk Budith, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for shooting three factory workers but has not spent a day in prison and remains at large.
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Senior Diplomat Says US Still Backs Election Investigation
After meeting with government officials and opposition leaders, a senior U.S. diplomat said at a press conference yesterday afternoon that Washington would continue to back to credible investigation into irregularities reported during July’s national election.
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2014 Draft Budget Passes First Round in One-Party Parliament
Still absent an input from the opposition CNRP, the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 took another step toward becoming law-makes passed the spending bill on the National Assembly’s finance committee for approval.
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Villagers Threaten to Forcibly Resist Eviction
More than 300 people yesterday pledged to further resist moves by district authorities to evict them from the land they have lived on for more than three years along-side an large rubber plantation owned by Try Pheap Company in Preah Vihear province.
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Pro-Opposition Singer Set to Record First Protest Album
Chan Kosal has come a long way since his childhood days spent sifting through trash and busking to a few passers-by on the streets of Kompong Chhnang town to earn enough to go to school.
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Government Takes Soft Line on Claims of US ‘Listening Station’
The Cambodia government will not investigate reports that the U.S. government is using its Phnom Penh embassy to monitor communications and collect data in the country. The government of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and China released angrily-worded statements on Friday after the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper published a map showing 90 U.S. embassies—including Cambodia’s—that form part of a joint CIA-National Security Agency (NSA).
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Hun Sen Make More Cuts to Sok An’s Portfolio
Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off on a directive last week to transfer 11 government bodies, previously overseen by Cabinet Minister Sok An, to relevant ministries and institutions, further cutting the expansive portfolio of the deputy prime minister in the wake of July’s nation election.
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2014 Draft Budget Reaches Assembly, Still Under Warps
The National Assembly’s 12-member permanent committee will take its first look at the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 today, through officials are still refusing to offer breakdown of how the money will be spent.
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Cambodian ex-governor's shooting conviction upheld
Human rights groups say the failure to arrest Bandith and the light sentence demonstrate a culture of impunity for Cambodia’s political elite. ‘‘The sentence is way too lenient,’’ said Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. ‘‘I think it is still a case of impunity. Chhouk Bandith is still not appearing in court, is still not in detention, and there is still no serious attempt to make an arrest.’’
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Phnom Penh Court Rejects Evidence in Wat Phnom Attack
About 100 anti-eviction activists protesters at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday demanding the arrest of local officials, including Daun Penh district governor Sok Sambath, whom they accuse of orchestrating a violent attack on a peaceful vigil last month that left several woman injured.
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Budith Still a No Show 20 Months After Garment Worker Shot
Former Bavet City governor Chhouk Bundith failed to show up yesterday to the Appeal Court for the rehearing of his case for shooting three garment workers in February 2012.
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Appeal Court Sentences Two Men to 20 years for Rape-Murders
The Court of Appeal yesterday sentence two men to 20 years in prison for the brutal 2009 rape and murder of two young girls in Pursat province, and ordered the release of a third man implicated in the case.
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As Trial Ends, KR Defendants Define to the Very Last
Nuon Chea, one of the chief ideologues of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, proclaimed his innocence and was defiant to the end as the trial against him and his co-accused, Khieu Samphan, wrapped up at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday.
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After Sam Rainsy’s Call, No Answer From CPP
At about 10 a.m. yesterday morning during a press conference at the CNRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, opposition leader Sam Rainsy dialed the phone number of CPP Interior Minister Sar Kheng and told a few dozen reporters in attendance that he would broadcast their conversation over speaker phone.
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Democracy About More Than Polling Day
The U.N.’s envoy for freedom of assembly on Tuesday presented a report to the U.N. General Assembly that calls for an approach to election monitoring that looks beyond polling day to assess whether elections in countries such as Cambodia are “free and fair”.
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Hun Sen Bodyguard Arrested for Firing Weapon Outside Nightclub
A member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Personal Bodyguard Unit (PMBU) was arrested yesterday for firing his weapon into the air after leaving a dance club in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district in the early morning, police said.
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New German Ambassador Urges CPP and CNRP to Meet
Germany’s new ambassador to Cambodia, Jochim Baron von Marschall, said yesterday during a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong that he hoped the conutry’s ruling CPP and opposition CNRP would meet to resolve the post-election uncertain, an official said.
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