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KRT Announces Scope of Second Trial Against Senior Leaders
Charge related to rape, forced marriage and genocide are to be heard in the next phase of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s trial against two senior regime leaders, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, the court announced yesterday.
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Appeal Court Uphold Heng Pov Sentence
The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a six-year-old municipal court verdict against disgraced former Phnom Penh police chief Heng Pov for the attempted murder of a newspaper publisher.
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Linking the Worst Factories With the Labels
The building that housed USA Fully Field Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district stands empty now.
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Python Smuggler Arrested in Kandal
A man was arrested on Friday in Kandal province after attempting to smuggle four rice bags filled with black pythons into Vietnam, according to local police.
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Australian PM Confirms Asylum Seeker Request
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday confirmed that Cambodia was in talks with his government to talk in some of the refugees trying to reach his country’s shores, according to Australian media.
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Rain Mires Massive Khmer New Year Party at Site of Strikes
Torrential rain on Saturday night ruined a large Khmer New Year staff party and concert at the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), one of the main sites of the nationwide garment sector strikes in late December arid early January.
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Man Injured by Landmine While illegally Logging
A man was seriously injured on Saturday by an anti-personnel landmine that exploded under him as he tried to sneak across the Thai-Cambodian border to illegally log rosewood.
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Thugs Attack Home for Families in Land Dispute
About 20 assailants armed with wooden sticks and samurai-style swords yesterday attacked a property in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district inhabited by three families at the center of a land dispute with a development company, according to residents.
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Gov’t Threatens Rainsy With Lawsuit Over Letter to King
The CPP government over the weekend released a slew of statements threatening court action against opposition leader Sam Rainsy for a letter he wrote last week, in which he appeared to rebuke King Norodom Sihamoni for convening and congratulating the single-party National Assembly.
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Man Arrested for Rape of 12-year-old Girl
A 48-year-old man was arrested on Friday evening for raping a 12-year-old girl that afternoon in Battambang province, local police said.
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Labor Ministry, ILO Set Out Plan for Minimum Wage Reforms
Facing public pressure from major garment brands and labor unions, the ministry of labor and the International Labor Organization (ILO) will cooperate in the coming months to reform the current system of setting the minimum wage in the garment sector.
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At Summit, Cambodia Urges to Delay Dam Construction
At a regional summit in Vietnam on Saturday, Cambodia once again urged Laos to delay construction on a controversial hydropower dam being planned just north of their shared border.
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Licadho data ‘not real’: gov’t
The Government yesterday accused Licadho of producing wildly misleading figures on land grabs, following the rights group’s announcement earlier this week that land conflicts in Cambodia have affected more than half a million people since 2000.
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Sar Kheng meets with Oz official
Australia’s immigration minister Scott Morrison, met with Interior Minister Sar Kheng in Phnom Penh yesterday for talks following a controversial request by Foreign Minister Julie Bisho in February for Cambodia to take in some of its refugees.
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Sochua hits road after park ouster
Opposition lawmaker-elect Mu Sochua protested for her “right to freedom” for the third day running at Freedom Park yesterday and was once again forcibly ejected from the area by security forces.
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Rainsy Writes to King Over Letter to Assembly
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has written to King Norodom Sihamoni responding to, and appearing to rebuke, a letter from the King that was read aloud at the National Assembly earlier this week.
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More Than 100 Workers Faint at Shenzhou Garment Factory
More than 100 workers of Shenzhou garment factory in Phnom Penh fainted yesterday, one day after a similar mass fainting at the same factory.
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Former RCAF Soldier Jailed For Running Cockfighting Ring
A former Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldier charged with running an illegal cockfighting and gambling ring was yesterday sentenced to one year in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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Sochua Ejected From Park for Third Straight Day
Police pushed Mu Sochua, a senior member of the opposition CNRP, out of Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for the third time in three days yesterday.
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Preah Vihear Governor to Close NGO Office for Inciting Workers
Preah Vihear provincial governor Oum Mara has sent a letter to inform Interior Minister Sar Kheng that he is ordering an NGO to close its local offices, on the grounds that the organization is inciting villagers to destroy sugarcane farmed by a Chinese company.
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