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Boy Dies After Brutal Beatings by Stepmother
A 27-year-old woman on Monday confessed to brutally beating her 6-year-old stepson to death at her Phnom Penh home over the course of several days last week, police said.
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Governor Continues to Delay UN Meeting With Montagnards
The U.N.’s efforts to locate a group of Montagnards hiding in Ratanakkiri province continued to be hindered Monday as the provincial governor was yet again unavailable to meet its delegation, four days after it traveled to the northeastern province.
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Alleged Wood Smugglers Crash in Kratie; Two Dead
Two men died and three others were seriously injured when a truck they were using to smuggle illegally logged wood overturned in Kratie province’s Prek Prasap district early Saturday morning, police said Sunday.
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National Police Set to Swap Land With Royal Palace
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Friday said the National Police was planning to swap land with the Royal Palace in order to build a new headquarters near NagaWorld Casino.
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Rights commission meet environment minister
The National Assembly’s human rights commission met on Friday with Environment Minister Say Sam Al to deliver its recommendation that the government review private land concessions held by four companies locked in land disputes with villagers in Koh Kong province, officials said.
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CNRP Official, Activist Denied Bail Over Clashes
The Court of Appeal on Friday denied bail to Meach Sovannara, an opposition CNRP official who was detained last month for his role in a violent clash at Freedom Park on July 15, and Ouk Pich Samnang, a political activist who was arrested for driving his tuk-tuk through a security barricade during a protest in October.
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In Urban Poor Settlements, Children Suffer Most
As money has flooded into Phnom Penh in the past few years, so have legions of rural poor who take up low-paying jobs servicing the needs of the wealthy.
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UN Efforts Stalled in Attempts To Meet Up With Montagnards
The U.N. says its efforts to meet a group of Montagnards hiding in Ratanakkiri province were stalled yet again Friday after authorities said any attempt to locate the group would require the approval of the provincial governor, who was not available to meet with the U.N.
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Police Search of Fugitive’s Villas Yields Incriminating Evidence
A five-hour search Friday of three villas owned by fugitive Defense Ministry official Thong Sarath, who stands accused of orchestrating the murder of a prominent businessman in Phnom Penh last month, produced evidence that implicates him in the crime, according to police.
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CNRP Calls for New Committee, Assembly Seats
The opposition CNRP on Friday called for the Council of Ministers to be removed from a process that determines the number of National Assembly seats—but came up against resistance from the ruling CPP.
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Assembly spokesman wants answers about alcohol ads
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun on Thursday said he would summon Information Minister Khieu Kanharith to parliament for questioning over the saturation of radio and television with advertisements for alcoholic beverages and, switching topics, threatened to throw a foreign NGO worker out of the country.
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Ministry Joins UN on Trip to Meet Montagnards
After nearly two weeks of stalling, the Ministry of Interior on Thursday sent officials to join representatives from the U.N. on a trip to meet a group of 13 Montagnard asylum seekers who have been hiding out in the forests of Ratanakkiri province.
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Authorities Suspend Construction Work at Site of Fatal Accident
Authorities on Thursday ordered a halt to the construction of a high-rise building in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district following the death of a 21-year-old worker at the site on Wednesday, an official from the Ministry of Land Management said.
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NGOs boycott sahong talk
Citing broken regional agreements and a lack of due process, two international organisations are sitting out regional public discussions on the Don Sahong Hydropower Dam today. International Rivers and the WWF, both vocal opponents of Laos’s 260-megawatt dam, criticised the project’s prior consultation process as going through the motions rather than evoking meaningful debate on potential hazards to the shared waterways.
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Chan Soveth mourned
A strong gathering of mourners turned out yesterday to pay their respects to high-profile human rights worker Chan Soveth, who passed away in the capital on Wednesday. Land dispute victims, fellow NGO workers and opposition lawmakers were among those who came to a Phnom Penh pagoda for Soveth’s funeral. Soveth, 51, was a senior investigator at rights group Adhoc, where he had worked for almost two decades.
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CPP pol threatens investigation, deportation of dam campaigner
A senior ruling Cambodian People’s party lawmaker has issued a thinly veiled threat of deportation to the founder of a local environmental campaign group, promising an investigation into the foreign national’s activities.
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Kep City Set to Swap Land With Tycoon Try Pheap
Tycoon Try Pheap will soon acquire a prime plot of state-owned land in the center of Kep City in exchange for building five new government offices 2 km away, city governor Ngin Vanda said Thursday.
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Controversial cybercrime law ‘scrapped’
Amid ramped-up efforts by the government to monitor and control the Internet, and plans to install surveillance equipment on the networks of mobile phone and internet providers, the council of ministers has scrapped a controversial draft cybercrime law for the time being.
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Detention center visit leaves lawmaker with mixed impression
Opposition CNRP lawmaker eng Chhay eang said he will press the government to dedicate more resources to one of Phnom Penh’s notorious detention centers after a brief visit to the facility yesterday but added that staff there should be commended for doing their best with the limited resources they had.
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Most see Kingdom on wrong path: poll
Nearly a year after the contested 2013 national election, a majority of Cambodians believed the Kingdom’s democracy was headed in the “wrong direction”, according to a report released on Wednesday. “Democracy in Cambodia”, The Asia Foundation’s third national public opinion poll on democracy, says that 59 per cent of Cambodians thought that the country was taking a turn for the worse in the wake of the election and amid the opposition’s ongoing boycott of the National Assembly due to claims of voter fraud.
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