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Vietnamese Illegally Work Cambodian Land: Adhoc
Rights group Adhoc says it found cassava plantations being worked by undocumented Vietnamese nationals on Cambodia’s side of the two countries’ shared border during a visit to Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district on Monday.
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Global Fund, Gov’t to Continue Probe Into Bribes
Anti-Corruption Unit chairman Om Yentieng on Tuesday said representatives of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will visit Cambodia next week to follow up on bribery allegations against former National Malaria Center director Duong Socheat.
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Cyber Law to Protect Gov’t Honor, Ministry Says
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said Tuesday that rules punishing people for insulting government officials online would be included in a pending cybercrime law, but insisted that the state had no intention to restrict social media use.
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CNRP Activist Recounts Day of ‘Insurrection’ at Trial
A CNRP activist charged with using violence during the opposition party’s alleged insurrection attempt last year told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday that he had little recollection of the protest after being knocked on the head with a baton.
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CNRP activist questioned
An opposition activist questioned yesterday over allegations that he participated in an “insurrection” last year has claimed his innocence, saying he “did nothing” but was abused by security guards anyway.
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CEO accused of paying for sex with a child
Brian Naswall, the CEO of local private airline Aero Cambodia, was charged yesterday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court with “purchasing child prostitution”.
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US ambassador defends net freedoms
US Ambassador William Todd has called for internet freedom in Cambodia to be guaranteed, just days after a government spokesman said social media users who publicly attack officials should be prosecuted.
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State TV to Air Talks on LGBT Issues: Activist
After meeting with a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists Monday morning, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said he promised to give them airtime on state broadcaster TVK for a roundtable discussion about the challenges they face.
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Two Men Arrested Over Separate Sex Crimes
A 32-year-old fisherman who allegedly left a woman badly injured after she fought off his rape attempt early Monday morning in Preah Sihanouk province was arrested Monday, while a construction worker in Banteay Meanchey province has been charged over the indecent assault of a 3-year-old girl, police said.
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Mothers Continue to Be Wrongfully Detained, Licadho Says
The judicial system is prematurely and unnecessarily breaking up families and thwarting the development of children by sending to provisional detention mothers who pose little or no danger to society, according to a new report from rights group Licadho.
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Prison’s toll on families detailed
Ol Chanty's three children didn’t know their mother had been imprisoned until kids in the local neighbourhood started teasing them.
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Protest at Swedish Embassy
Some 20 Cambodian workers who say they were ripped off by a company they worked for in Sweden gathered at the country’s embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday to ask for assistance.
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GMAC sees surge in strikes
The number of strikes at Cambodia’s garment factories during the first three months of 2015 rose nearly 74 per cent from the same period last year, according to the nation’s garment manufacturers
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Ministry defends NGO law
The draft law on non-governmental organisations has been written in line with the constitution and other governments’ plans for similar laws, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement yesterday.
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Facebook fracas: Two briefly detained for ‘defamation’
Two Chinese plantation workers employed by the Pheapimex conglomerate to grow cassava in Pursat province were arrested for allegedly defaming their fellow farmers on Facebook and later released after the company intervened, police have said.
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Tax protest turns violent
A protest over import taxes in Poipet town yesterday descended into brick-hurling and beatings, with the local governor ultimately pointing the finger at an opposition official and a local union boss for inciting the riot.
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Military Police Open Fire at Poipet City Demonstration
Military police opened fire on Monday in Poipet City during a demonstration by handcart-pullers demanding that customs officials stop charging them arbitrary fees to transport goods back and forth across the Cambodian-Thai border.
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Court Hears 3 Chinese Charged With Trafficking
Three Chinese nationals charged with attempting to traffic four Cambodian teenagers to China told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday that the they were trying to help their friends find wives and that the teenagers had willingly agreed to travel to China.
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Lawmaker Opens Door to Talks on NGO Law
A spokesman for the National Assembly on Monday said civil society groups may still have a chance to meet with lawmakers over a controversial draft law that aims to regulate the country’s multimillion dollar NGO sector before it goes to a vote.
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Minister Backs Legal Action Over Online Insults
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Sunday that he supports the prosecution of social media users who insult government officials, after a government spokesman requested such action last week in letters to the ministries of interior and telecommunications.
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