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Second Phase of KRT Case Set
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal yesterday set a date for the first hearing in upcoming Case 002/02, instructing parties to appear in court on July 30 to begin hammering out the particulars of how the second subtrial in the court’s flagship case will proceed.
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After Street Sweep, Boy Happy
Thirteen-year-old Hanh Vin was scavenging for cans near the Olympic Stadium early on Tuesday morning when police arrived in a caged van to haul him away.
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Cambodia Wins Seat on ILO Governing Body for First Time
Cambodia for the first time won a seat on the powerful governing body of the international Labor Organization (ILO) last week despite frequent – and, recently, deadly – labor unrest and complaint garment manufacturing industry.
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Families Appeal to Hun Sen Over Land Titles
Dozens of protesters gathered on Russian Boulevard again yesterday, donning CPP hats and waving photos of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife, Bun Rany, in the hopes of attracting the leader’s attention as he drove past en route from Kampot province.
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Hun Sen Offers TV Station Carrot to CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday attempted to condense the post-election political deadlock down to a dispute over the CNRP’s request for a television channel, saying the ball was now back in the opposition party’s court.
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City’s Roundup of Vagrants Begins; Numbers Are Kept Secret
The Phnom Penh municipality yesterday began its latest campaign to clear the city’s streets of vagrants, rounding up truckloads of beggars and sellers at traffic lights and holding them at district offices and the municipal social affairs department.
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Gov’t to meet unions for salary talks
Union members of the Ministry of Labour’s labour Advisory Committee (LAC) will meet on Monday for a garment industry wage discussion focusing on ideas raised at a workshop in April.
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Officials Fail to Show as Land Claims Grow
Kratie provincial officials yesterday abruptly canceled a planned meeting with representatives of hundreds of families evicted from their snuol district land to make way for a Vietnamese rubber company, saying they needed time to study why the population requesting replacement land had more than doubled.
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Senate boycott planned
Opposition senators will boycott the plenary session on Thursday at which ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers are expected to debate three controversial judicial draft laws that passed through the National Assembly unopposed last month.
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Kompong Cham Officials Accused of Extortion
The Anti-corruption Unit revealed Monday that the director of Kompong Cham provincial Treasury Department Kol Thearin and officials under her are being investigated for allegedly embezzling money from local development projects and extorting bribes from developers, according to a statement from the ACU.
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Ocean workers pray for jobs
Protesting workers at ocean Garment factory say they are worried the manufacturer, which has suspended operations for one month, will close altogether.
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Factory Shuts Down, Doesn’t Pay Salaries
About 400 garment workers arrived for their shifts and monthly pay at Phnom Penh’s Hongkong Yufeng factory yesterday only to find it shuttered and its owner nowhere to be found, worker’s representatives said.
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Many opens up to criticism
Prime Minister Hun Sen may regularly deliver hours of bombastic public oratory and rarely, if ever, allow anyone to ask questions of him.
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Robber Killed After Armed Gang Terrorizes Family
A burglar was shoot dead and another injured on Sunday night during a shootout with police in Prey Veng province after an armed gang of six men carried out a violent robbery at a home in Preah Sdech district, police said.
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Back on timber patrol
WHEN Cambodia’s most prominent forest activist Chut Wutty, was gunned down in April 2012, the community network he created to sabotage the rampant deforestation of this vast forest fragmented. The forest patrols that he organized nearly ground to a half.
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Reporters Drops Threat Complaint, Court Says
A journalist who filed a complaint with the Pursat Provincial Court alleging that a solider threatened to kill him over an illegal logging report withdrew his complaint after the soldier was internally disciplined, court officials and military police said yesterday.
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Man Acquitted Over Anti-Vietnamese Mob Killing
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday acquitted a man who tried late last month in connection with the racist mob killing of an ethnic Vietnamese man in February.
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City wants homeless gone
PHNOM penh City Hall wants to sweep the capital’s streets clean of beggars, street kids and the homeless.
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Evictees Reject Latest Settlement Offer From UK Sugar Firm
Representatives for the 200 Cambodian families suing U.K. sugar firm Tate & Lyle for allegedly profiting off of their stolen land say they have rejected the firm’s latest offer to settle the dispute and are looking forward to their first court date, set for October.
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‘Not enough evidence’ in mob killing
THE only man arrested in connection with the apparently racially motivated mob killing of a Vietnamese-Cambodian man in the capital’s Meanchey district in February was acquitted yesterday due to a lack of evidence.
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