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Human trafficker get jail time
A human trafficker was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday after he lured two Cambodian men and one woman to Malaysia in February, court official said.
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Union Leader to Appear Court Over Demonstration
The first of six prominent union heads facing charges that include causing intentional violence and damage said he will appear At the Municipal Court today for questioning related to his alleged role in garment sector wage protests in December
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Logger let of hook
In a surprising twist, border police detained 16 illegal rosewood loggers on Wednesday, but rather than making any arrest, they release the men and paid for their fare home
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Villagers in R’kiri claim mountain
Minority villagers from Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district climbed up a mountain to a community forest yesterday morning to challenge a company they claim is illegally felling their trees.
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Vote Set for Election Committee Amendment
The National Assembly will vote on a proposal to make the National Election Committee (NEC) a Constitutional body in early October, opposition lawmakers said yesterday, honoring part of a deal the ruling party CPP struck with the CNRP in July to get the opposition to end its boycott of parliament
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Ex-Officials Tell of Free Trade Union’s Demise
Chea Mony shuffled papers on His desk and joked about the headshot of Bun Rany hanging alone on the wall of his office at Free Trade Union’s headquarters in Phnom Penh.
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Vote Set for Election Committee Amendment
The National Assembly will vote on a proposal to make the National Election Committee (NEC) a Constitutional body in early October, opposition lawmakers said yesterday, honoring part of a deal the ruling party CPP struck with the CNRP in July to get the opposition to end its boycott of parliament
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Police Commander’s Death Settled Out of Court
Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Chreang Sophanna has given $12,000 to the family of the former military police commander who fell to his death down an unfinished elevator shaft at a hotel Mr. Sophanna owns, according to officials and relatives of the officer.
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Conviction for selling girls to me
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted a Vietnamese coffee shop owner of pimping out three underage girls to rich men in Phnom Penh in exchange for commission
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Sickle-Wielding Landowner Faces Down Police
A 68-year-old woman faced down dozens of military and district police ordered to protect villagers attempting to demarcrate her land in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district after they sold it to a cousin of Prime Minister Hun
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Injustice in Cambodia
Before the Cambodian Government launches fresh investigations into garment factory union leaders it must address the shortcomings I observed in the last round of trials. The clear violations of a right to a fair trial that took place during those proceedings left me troubled about the treatment of the accused and the state of the rule of law in Cambodia – a feeling that has since been aggravated by the recent passage of three “judicial reform laws” that infringe on the independence of the judiciary, in contravention of international standards and Cambodia’s constitution.
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Vietnamese Woman Sentenced for Pimping
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a Vietnamese national to seven years in. prison for prostituting girls aged between 13 and 16
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Journalist Extortion Case Resurfaces in Kampong Chhang
The Kompong Chhang provincial court on Tuesday heard the case of five reporters accused of extorting money from an illegal-timber dealer, nearly four years after they were first charged , a court official said yesterday
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Recertification of rubber firm is ‘Cause for concern’
Investigative right group Global Witness has lodged a complaint with an international forest management body after it recertified the Vietnamese Rubber Group last week despite outstanding allegations that the company is driving a wave of land and forest grabs in Cambodia
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Adhoc to Appeal to Gov’t for Help in Shooting Case
Right group Adhoc yesterday said it would lodge complaint with the government and courts over the case of an armed security guard working for rubber company in Mondolkiri province who injured a local trapper when he fired AK-47assault riffle into the group
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Researchers Detained After Visit to Resettlement Community
Land-right NGO Equitable Cambodia yesterday Condemned the overnight detention of two of its researchers, including a dual Japanese-American citizens, following their visit to families that have been evicted by a Thai sugar company.
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Police Describe Role in Swede’s Hacking Trial
A police official yesterday detailed his department’s cooperation with Swedish and Danish authorities to collect evidence from Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm’s life in Cambodia.
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Migrants repatriated
After harrowing experiences working in slave-like condition, seven Cambodians returned home yesterday.
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PM’s threat under microscope
Political watchdog yesterday hit out at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s threat on Tuesday to boot opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha out of the first deputy presidency of parliament.
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Global call to back $177 local wage
A group of international unions is organizing a Global Day of Action later this month to Show support for Cambodian garment workers’ demand for a $177 monthly minimum wage.
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