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Staff of shuttered Kandal factories to share $1.2M after sale of seized equipment
More than 1,000 workers from two shuttered factories will be paid out a share of $1.2 million on February 12 after authorities found a buyer for goods seized from their former employers, authorities said, more than a year after bosses stopped paying salaries and then shut the factories in Kandal province
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Sophorn convicted to 20 months for ‘incitement’
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced Suong Sophorn, the president of the Khmer Win Party, to 20 months in prison with a combined fine of about $51,000, after being found guilty of “incitement”.
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BAKC vows to expand pro bono legal services
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has vowed to expand the scope of pro bono defence consultations for the poor and called on lawyers around the country to participate in serving social justice and contribute to reducing the effects of poverty.
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Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Gets Going at a Mild Pace
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son Hun Many and son-in-law Dy Vichea missed out on their Covid-19 jabs due to health issues as four participating hospitals in the country’s vaccination rollout gave out 339 shots on the first day — toward an ultimate target of 10 million people vaccinated.
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Kingdom vows to reduce emissions
Cambodia is focusing mainly on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the country’s goal of reducing its emissions by 21 million tonnes per year in order to combat climate change, according to Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra.
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Call for all lawyers to provide free services to the poor
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has issued a letter calling on all lawyers to volunteer free legal services to the poor.
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‘Crossed a red line’: prosecution requests maximum penalty for 9 CNRP leaders over attempted ‘coup’
Nine leaders of the outlawed Cambodia National Rescue Party should receive the maximum 30-year prison sentence for attempting an attack on the government through an alleged coup d’etat in 2019, a prosecutor and government attorney told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday.
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Good neighbour enables hassle-free border crossings for returnees
since December 21, 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand had a sudden spike to several hundred cases a day and deaths being reported, Cambodian migrant workers with their family members in tow, started fleeing Thailand.
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Politicians Warned against Using Kem Sokha’s Name to Promote Parties
Kem Sokha's defense team on Feb. 7 warned politicians not to use their client’s name for personal gain as this may amount to a violation of Sokha’s ban from political activity in Cambodia. They stressed that those who seek to protect Sokha’s rights should not put him in more danger.
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Can Cambodia avoid the resource curse?
After the discovery of oil in Cambodia’s territorial waters by US-based Chevron, Cambodia could become a major petroleum-exporting country. There are approximately 400 million barrels of oil reserves in Cambodian territory.
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Missing Thai Activists Point to ‘Pattern of Disappearances’: UN Experts
The abduction of Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit by “four unidentified armed persons” in Phnom Penh in June, and five other cases of Thai opposition activists disappearing since 2016, “point to a pattern of disappearances,” U.N. experts said in a letter released on Tuesday.
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Journalists thrilled to be prioritised for vaccines
Journalists are congratulating Prime Minister Hun Sen for recognising them as working on the frontlines and scheduling their inoculations in the first round of vaccines.
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Journalists thrilled to be prioritised for vaccines
Journalists are congratulating Prime Minister Hun Sen for recognising them as working on the frontlines and scheduling their inoculations in the first round of vaccines.
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Phnom Penh police to strengthen management of foreigners and crack down on crimes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Police held a meeting to strengthen the management, research and crack down on crimes caused by foreigners on Friday.
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At Closing of CNRP Leaders’ Trial, Defense Lawyers at Odds
Defense lawyers for nine senior opposition leaders gave conflicting closing statements on Tuesday, with a Bar Association-appointed lawyer requesting a minimum sentence — due to defendants’ age and inability to carry out their plans — as if they had pleaded guilty.
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After Release, Ouch Leng Alleges He Saw Convoys Taking Prey Lang Wood
An award-winning environmentalist detained over the weekend said upon his release that he had seen about 100 tractors carting wood away from the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary — a claim rejected by local environment authorities and a nearby reforestation project as lacking in evidence.
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Vaccine drive begins Wednesday as Health Ministry reassures public
Cambodia will begin vaccinating senior government officials, target groups, frontline workers starting Wednesday after the first batch of the Chinese-produced Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Phnom Penh.
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Vaccination campaign begins
The Kingdom’s Inter-Ministerial Committee to Combat Covid-19 and the working group overseeing logistics and implementation of the nation’s vaccination strategy have announced that a public vaccination campaign will begin from February 10.
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Oddar Meanchey’s 17 quarantine centres bursting at seams
O’SMACH, Oddar Meanchey – Oddar Meanchey, which has one official crossing point for migrant workers streaming across the border from Thailand through its Surin province, is at its bursting point as hundreds continue to pour across the border daily since the deluge began on December 21, 2020.
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Ouch Leng, four activists released after “secretly entering” Prey Lang protected forest
Goldman Environmental Prize-winning Ouch Leng and four activists were released by the Kratie Provincial Court Monday morning after being detained on Friday for allegedly entering the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary illegally.
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