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Trafficking Charges for Wife Broker
An alleged broker accused of selling 10 women from Tbong Khmom province as brides in China was charged by the provincial court yesterday with human trafficking.
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No Arrests Yet in July Acid Attack
A 30-year-old acid victim from Banteay Meanchey was sent to the capital for further treatment at a rehabilitation hospital, doctors said yesterday, while police are continuing to look for the perpetrator.
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Beggar Purged Kids Picked Up, Released in City Sweep
Seven children rounded up this week as part of City Hall’s ongoing efforts to rid the capital of homeless, beggars and street sellers were returned to their families’ just hours after being put into an NGO’s care.
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Judgment Day for KR
The Khmer Rouge tribunal today will hand down its verdict on the responsibility born by the senior-most surviving leaders of the regime – Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan – for the massive crimes purportedly committed in its name.
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Opening Marks a ‘Return to Freedom’
After more than haft a year in lockdown, Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park reopened to the public yesterday morning, while the results of an investigation repeatedly cited as the reason for its ongoing closure remained elusive.
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Strike Ends as Sacked Workers Take Cash
Seven union leaders protesting against being sacked from the Vantage River Textile factory in Preah Sihanouk province each agreed yesterday to accept $300 compensation.
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Villagers in KDC Row Stand Vigil
Police failed yesterday to convince dozens of families camped outside Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court to pack up their mats, blankets and tents and end their protest over two villager representatives jailed in a long-running land dispute with politically connected KDC International.
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Rainsy Seeks Youths’ Release
Following Tuesday’s swearing in of the 55 elected opposition lawmakers at the Royal Palace, Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy yesterday wrote to Interior Minister Sar Kheng to seek the release of three party members jailed over their alleged involvement in a violent protest last month.
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Khmer Rouge tribunal to hand down verdicts
The central city of Phnom Penh, already swollen with frightened people from the countryside seeking refuge from a steadily growing conflict that began nearly five years before, had watched in fear as ultra-communist forces marched on the capital.
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Family, Firm Still At Odds Over Land
While one of the two Phnom Penh families embroiled in a long-running land dispute with Khun Sear Import Export Company this week accepted a compensation offer, the other say it has no plans to back down.
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NGO Blasts Roundup of Phnom Penh’s Beggars
An NGO partnered with Phnom Penh’s municipal government in a scheme to help poor children get off the street yesterday blasted the city’s ongoing catch-and-release strategy.
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Judgment Day for Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
Today, the U.N. backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will find either innocent or guilty two of the remaining members of the Khmer Rouge nucleus, who were tried for a total of 222 days over nearly three years on charges of crimes against humanity.
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Freedom Park Open as Phnom Penh ‘Returns to Normal’
The razor-wire was removed riot police departed and Freedom Park was opened to the public for the first time in seven months yesterday morning as City Hall declared that Phnom Penh had “returned to normal” following the swearing-in Tuesday of the CNRP’s 55 lawmakers.
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Woman Charged With Trafficking Bride to China
A 52-year-old woman was charged with human trafficking by the Kampong Cham Provincial Court on Tuesday for allegedly convincing another woman to marry a Chinese man who then abused her, police said.
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Villagers Protest Arrests Over Land Dispute
About 90 villagers continued to demonstrate outside the Kampong Chhnang provincial court yesterday, calling for the release of two men from prison and protesting the summoning of another eight over clashes last month with workers from the powerful KDC company.
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Activists Stumped by License
Logging tycoon Try Pheap has been granted a license to collect all remaining seized timber from government facilities across the country – timber held as evidence in ongoing cases against illegal loggers.
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Activists Sentenced
Nine Prey Lang forest activists received suspended one-year prison sentence at Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday and were ordered to pay $1,250 to a businesswoman whose hectare of cassava they were accused of uprooting, the defendants’ lawyer said.
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Protest Calls for Villagers’ Release
Dozens of residents of Kampong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village descended on the provincial court yesterday to demand the release of two people jailed over their role in a long-running land dispute with the politically connected KDC Company.
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Villagers Take KDC Protest To Court
About 200 villagers and monks marched to the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court yesterday to call for the release from jail of two villagers and protest the summoning of eight more to appear before the provincial court.
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Australian, 65, Arrested for Having Sex With Minors
A 65-year-old Australian national who is a manager of a large Vietnam-based tour agency was arrested yesterday for purchasing sex from two teenage girls in Siem Reap City, officials said.
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