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Read More Court Briefs: Documentary Translator’s Case Retried, Dissident Sentenced in Two Cases
The Appeal Court in Phnom Penh retried a case involving a Cambodian translator convicted of incitement for assisting on a 2018 Russia Today documentary on sex trafficking in the country.
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Read More Commune chief champion’s women’s role in leadership
Heng Srey Pov, a resident of Kansaom Ak village and commune of Prey Veng province’s Kampong Trabek district, was re-elected as Kansaom Ak commune chief in the fifth mandate commune council election on June 5 in order to continue her work serving the people there – which includes finding ways to empower women and solve their particular problems.
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Read More Tourism, Food-Worker Unions Back Plan to Strike for NagaWorld Workers
Major tourism and food workers’ unions said they supported a proposal to strike in August to show solidarity with Phnom Penh casino NagaWorld’s fired workers, who have been protesting since December.
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Read More Gov’t denies Aussie report on ‘haven for regime’s dirty money’
The Cambodian government has responded to an Australian news report that accused Cambodia of using Australia as a “haven for the regime’s dirty money”.
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Read More Hundreds of Families Want Land Concession to Offset Evictions
More than 300 village residents from Koh Kong province protested at a district hall on Monday, asking for a social land concession to resolve their longstanding land conflict with a sugarcane plantation.
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Read More Opposition Outrage as CPP’s Constitution Changes Move Ahead
The National Assembly is expected to this week adopt draft amendments to the Constitution that relate to the transition of national leadership – a move strongly opposed by the opposition as an overt power grab by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
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Read More State Hands Land to Lawmaker, Senator’s Family
A ruling-party parliamentarian, a CPP senator’s family member and a business associate of the prime minister’s daughter are among the latest recipients of state-land transfers that have been distributing lakes, forests and wildlife sanctuaries to the country’s elite.
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Read More Unions Plan Wider Strikes to Support Naga Workers Amid Incitement Accusations
Unions are planning strikes next month in the food industry and the country’s factories in support of the long-running NagaWorld labor dispute, a unionist said on Monday even after authorities accused her and another of Cambodia’s prominent union leaders of incitement.
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Read More ‘Dismay’ on new US bill’s democracy accusations
The Kingdom’s Senate was “utterly dismayed” when the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations passed the Cambodia Democracy and Human Rights Act 2022 (S.3052) last week claiming that Cambodia’s elections have not been free and fair.
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Read More Kingdom’s bid to escape ‘grey list’ looks promising
Minister of Justice Koeut Rith has urged all relevant institutions to continue their cooperation to curb money laundering and the financing of terrorism so that Cambodia can be removed from the grey list of countries which are vulnerable to money laundering.
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Read More Briefs: Kratie Military Police Officer Given Bail in Abuse Case, CNRP Official’s Conviction Upheld
The Supreme Court granted bail to a Kratie city military police chief — after lower courts denied his requests — with the official being charged with alleged torture, violence and death threats against two 12-year-old girls working at his house.
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Read More Opposition parties want CPP-backed constitutional amendments scrapped
An alliance of opposition groups led by the Candlelight Party asked the National Assembly to reject CPP-proposed changes to the constitution, saying the amendments weakened parliament and violated the principles of multiparty democracy.
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Read More Opposition parties petition NA to dismiss Constitutional amendments
Four opposition parties yesterday submitted a petition to the National Assembly (NA) asking for the proposed amendments to the Constitution requested by the Cabinet to be dismissed, claiming that the changes will reduce the power of the parliament.
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Read More Slew of High-Profile Cases Heard at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court heard back-to-back appeals from high-profile cases involving Mother Nature activists, a senior unionist and two co-accused, and a group of activists convicted for a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in October 2020.
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Read More Cambodia falls to bottom rank on U.S. human-trafficking index
Cambodia is back on another U.S. blacklist. Washington, in its 2022 Trafficking in Persons report, downgraded the Kingdom to Tier 3 status, the lowest of three designations, citing endemic corruption and an unwillingness to hold human traffickers accountable.
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Read More Interior Ministry Official Saddened by ‘Injustice’ of Human Trafficking Downgrade
The country’s top anti-trafficking official said Cambodia would investigate news reports of rampant human trafficking in the country, as a rights group noted how neither the government nor civil society were positioned to look at the emergent type of trafficking.
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Read More Brief: Kem Sokha Trial Drags On
The latest trial hearing for opposition leader Kem Sokha again examined a video of a decade-old public protest, and witnessed another clash in the final moments as a defense lawyer accused the prosecution of bringing arbitrary charges against Sokha.
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Read More Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being. Below is the list of media released on 22/July/2022.
The country’s top anti-trafficking official said Cambodia would investigate news reports of rampant human trafficking in the country, as a rights group noted how neither the government nor civil society were positioned to look at the emergent type of trafficking.
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Read More Over 30 Opposition Activists Assaulted in Five Years: Lawyer
More than 30 opposition activists have been violently attacked in the past five years — including the killing of a man in November and this weekend’s assault — typically by unknown assailants on public streets, a lawyer said.
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Read More Specialised NA committee to study amendments
The National Assembly Permanent Committee (NAPC) has approved the four Constitutional amendments intended to ensure the efficient function of national institutions to be reviewed and studied by the Assembly’s Legislative and Justice Committee.
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