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Trio Sentenced Madams Get Five Years for Brokering
Three women were sentenced to five years in prison yesterday for supplying teenage girls to have sex with wealthy men in Phnom Penh hotels last year.
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Striking Factory Workers Thwart Police Arrests
Police in Kompong Chhnang province yesterday were prevented from arresting workers and union officials outside a Samakki Meanchey district garment factory by a mob of irate protesters who pulled two of their colleagues out of a police car to thwart their arrests.
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Gov’t Says 660,000 Workers Now in Thailand
In a drastic upward revision of previous government estimates, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that some 660,000 Cambodian, or almost 5 percent of the country’s entire population, is currently working in Thailand.
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PM Looks to US to Justify Use of Force
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday compared Cambodia’s deadly government crackdowns favorably with attempts in the United States to quell days of unrest following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman.
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Spokespeople for Gov’t Require Review: Official
A senior official at the Ministry of Information has called on the government to review spokespeople at ministries and replace those who are not doing their job properly.
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Police Arrest Three Villagers Over Decade-Old Land Row
Authorities in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea district yesterday arrested three villagers involved in a decade-old land dispute with a man alleged to be a Phnom Penh military police officer, officials said.
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Citizens Taking News Into Their Own Hands
More than 80 reporters and citizen journalists from across 23 provinces met in Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss how citizen journalists can circumvent government-dominated media in Cambodia by writing and sharing information on human rights and other issues.
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Mentally Ill Lack Support in Prison
At the age of 18, Lim Visal was chained to a post by his parents, who were anxious about his undiagnosed schizophrenia and too poor to refer to refer him to a hospital.
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Wealthy Family Denies Torturing Their Workers
Members of a wealthy family accused of torturing and holding captive a girl, now 18, for eight years and her brother, 12, for two years vehemently denied the charges to reporters at their Tuol Kok villa yesterday as the boy appeared for questioning at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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NGOs Want Charges Dropped
Charges brought against opposition members for their alleged role in inciting violence against district security guards during a protest at Freedom Park last month were politically motivated and should be dropped, civil society leaders said yesterday.
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Official Rejects Vietnam’s Reports of Punishment for Flag Burners
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun yesterday rejected report in Vietnamese media that Assembly President Heng Samrin had assured the Vietnamese prime minister that protesters would be punished for burning the country’s flag in front of its embassy in Phnom Penh last week.
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Two orphanages shut
Two orphanages in Phnom Penh have been shuttered by the city’s social affairs department following complaints from children in their care.
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Police, Officials Quiz Villagers After Protest in Phnom Penh
Villagers in Kompong Speu province claim they were harassed by authorities there after holding a protest in front of ANZ Royal Bank’s head office in Phnom Penh last week to demand that the lender help them because it had financed a sugar plantation they accuse of stealing their land.
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Woman Arrested in Kampot Land Dispute
A 67-year-old woman from Kampot province was arrested yesterday for attempting to prevent a construction company from clearing land she says belongs to her, police said.
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Unions Say Gov’t Blocking Branch Registrations
In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch.
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Boy, 15, Rapes and Kills 3-Year-Old Neighbor
A 15-year-old mentally disabled boy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly raping a 3-year-old girl and then killing her in Tbong Kmum district, police said yesterday.
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Land at Risk Families in Kratie Wary Over Moves
Kratie town and provincial administrators met with representatives of families living alongside Kratie Town Hall yesterday after receiving a petition expressing villagers’ concern that the town hall planned to expand its premises onto their land.
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Courtroom for Boy, 15, Over Death
The Kampong Cham Provincial Court has charged a 15-year-old with the rape and murder of his four-year-old neighbor.
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In China, Nowhere to Run
In yet another case of Cambodian women facing abuse in China, a 19-year-old told the post yesterday that she has taken to living on the streets after the consulate in Shanghai refused to pay for her repatriation.
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Police Nab Suspect in Rape-Killing
Police in Tbong Kmum town yesterday arrested suspect in the rape and murder of a 4-year-old girl, police said.
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