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  • Ny Chakrya case review underway

    A former Adhoc official and deputy secretary-general of the National Election Committee hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict yesterday, which directed the Appeal Court to review his conviction over allegedly defamatory comments made to the media in May 2015.

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  • Woman charged over minor’s rape

    Kandal Provincial Court yesterday charged a woman who lured a 14-year-old girl to Phnom Penh where she was raped by a man in a guesthouse.

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  • Top court overturns Ny Chakrya’s conviction

    The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a defamation conviction against former Adhoc official Ny Chakrya and ordered the Court of Appeal to conduct a retrial.

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  • River residents to be relocated

    Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities are planning to relocate hundreds of Cham and Vietnamese residents living on the Tonle Sap river to dry land by the end of 2019.

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  • Police detains man for killing his ex-wife

    Banteay Meanchey provincial police on Sunday arrested a man for killing his ex-wife in Malai district’s Malai commune before fleeing to Pursat province. The suspect was sent to court the same day.

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  • Poll criticism a ‘serious insult’, PM tells the UN

    Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, Hun Sen defended July’s national elections and hit out at criticism from certain unnamed countries, calling them a “serious insult” to the will of the Cambodian people that showed “the ambition to interfere” in the Kingdom’s internal affairs.

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  • ‘Pardon political activists for Pchum Ben’

    A former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) politician has called for jailed members of the Supreme Court-dissolved opposition party to be among those released after the Ministry of Justice said 319 prisoners had requested pardons ahead of the upcoming Pchum Ben religious festival.

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  • Ex-Transport Ministry official on trial for number plate forgery

    Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday tried a former government official with forging vehicle number plates and driving licenses to sell to foreigners for $20 to $30 each between 2012 and this year.

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  • Online scammers to be deported next week

    More than 100 Chinese nationals are due to be deported next week for their involvement in Voice over Internet Protocol scams committed in the capital and Kampot province, according to police.

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  • Hun Sen decries external interference

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused superpower countries of using human rights to impose their will upon other countries, including Cambodia, and meddle with their internal affairs to push forward their own agendas.

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  • Camcontrol slams Sam Rainsy claim

    The Ministry of Commerce’s Cambodia Import-Export Inspection and Fraud Repression Directorate General (Camcontrol) has slammed Sam Rainsy’s recent Facebook post that raised the local food safety issue as “an attempt to reap political gain”.

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  • Four on trial for land encroachment

    Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court yesterday held a trial for four villagers accused by businessman Tan Tap of encroaching on his land in Stung Hav district.

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  • Rainsy a no-show at protest, PM urges ‘conscienc

    Hun Sen called on Cambodians in North America who are unhappy with his leadership not to damage the Kingdom’s “national interests and image” by attempting to tarnish his reputation through protests while he is on an official visit to the UN.

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  • Poor migrants caught clearing forest

    The Poutil ethnic community members from Busra commune in Mondulkiri province’s Pichreada district handed two men to district police for further action on Thursday, after they allegedly cleared many hectares of forest in their community.

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  • Sovannara’s book to detail horrid prison conditions

    Former opposition official Meach Sovannara is publishing a book detailing his experience behind bars as a prisoner in Prey Sar prison.

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  • Teachers to gather despite rally ban

    City Hall has denied a request made by the Cambodia Independent Teachers Association to rally on World Teacher’s Day at Wat Phnom on October 5.

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  • Court hears Ny Chakrya case

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard the case against Ny Chakrya, a former Adhoc official and currently deputy secretary-general of the National Election Committee (NEC) over his allegedly defamatory comments made to the media in May 2015.

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  • ‘Adhoc 5’ free despite being sentenced to five years in jail

    The Adhoc 5 were found guilty by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday and sentenced to five years in prison. They were charged with bribing a witness in the case of bailed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha’s alleged affair with a hairdresser.

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  • Adhoc 5 handed suspended sentences

    Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted four human rights defenders and a National Election Committee official of bribery, but handed them each five-year suspended sentences for their roles in bribing a witness linked to an alleged affair by former opposition leader Kem Sokha.

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  • Kingdom surrogacy law set to lift burden from ‘victims’

    Hundreds of rights organisations from 18 countries campaigned for “a global ban on women’s womb rental” on Monday during the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.

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