Government Plans to Regulate Online Content

The Ministry of Information is planning to being regulating the Internet in the country to prevent offensive content from being posed online,

ADB Gives Update on Aid for Railway Families

The government has finished calculating the additional compensation it will pay out to some of the families forced to move for a $143 million railway rehabilitation project being funded mostly by the Asian Development bank (ADB), according to a new report.

More brides on way home

Two women who were trafficked as brides to China are scheduled to arrive home today after an anonymous donor read of their plight in the Post.

In Video Recording, KR Tribunal Calls Court ‘ Fairish’

Lawyers for Khmer Rouge second-in-command Nuon Chea have filed a motion with the Khmer Rouge tribunal to admit as evidence a video recording of a trial judge stating publicly that the court was not”totally fair”.

Seventeen Families Denied Plots In Kratie Land Reallotment

Authorities in Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday furnished more than 300 families with long-awaited titles for land confiscated from a South Korean agribusiness firm on Saturday,

‘Death hole’ if Hun Sen stays

Civil society groups had called on three former prime ministers to back their push for term limits to be added to the constitution

Census Used To Identify Those Without Work Permits

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday clarified that an ongoing census of foreign nationals was part of a larger drive to enforce a long-ignored law that requires nonnatives employed in Cambodia to hold work permits.

Monks Chase CPP Lawmaker From Pagoda

A CPP lawmaker from Preah Vihear province was chased out of a Phnom Penh yesterday after he enraged villagers by expressing a lack of sympathy for their land dispute, according to witnesses.

Court Orders Striking Workers Back to Factory

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered 400 striking workers to return to the Xin Fang garment factory by this morning after deciding that their industrial action was in violation of the labor law,

Thailand Arrests 33 Cambodian Nationals for Illegal Logging

Thirty-three Cambodian nationals were arrested for illegally logging rare rosewood trees in Thailand, where they are currently awaiting trial, officials said yesterday.

KPPM dissident’s trial to being

A Cambodian-American dissident who has been labeled a terrorist by the government will face charges of treason at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court later this month.

Hun Sen Blames Private Sector for Corruption

Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at private sector and international community at a regional conference on fighting corruption help in Phnom Penh yesterday, but also lauded his government’s own progress in implementing anti-graft measures.

ADB Gives Update on Aid for Railway Families

New evidence for Nuon Chea appeal

The Noun Chea defence is requesting that the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Superme Court Chamber investigate new evidence as it weighs the team’s appeal against their client’s life conviction in August, according to a filing posted yesterday

Protests in city, province keep going

Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday.

Newly Formed Human Rights Commission Already at Work

Only a week after it was formed with senior opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang at its helm, the National Assembly’s human right commission has already accepted four complaints related to land disputes, according to members.

Hun Sen’s son tells journos to focus on more weighty issues

HUN Manet, the eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has admonished the media to stop playing attention to his military rank and to report more about his achievements instead.

K Krom to talk census at forum

KHMER Krom activists are planning a public forum at freedom Park on September 6 about the recent census of ethnic Vietnamese Cambodians.

ECCC Struggles to Dispose of ‘Extra’ Charges Against Leaders

After Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the two most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, were convicted of crimes against humanity last month, largely for their roles in forced evacuations,

Charges in strike violence surface

A UNION leader has been charged with causing violence and destroying property during a garment strike that ended in security forces shooting dead at least five people on January 3, a court summons obtained yesterday shows.