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National Assembly Passes Roads Law With Slim Majority
A new roads law was passed unanimously by the 64 CPP lawmakers who sat for the third and final day of the National Assembly’s second plenary session yesterday.
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Railway Audit Finds Poor Maintenance of Tracks
Toll Royal Railway, the private operator of Cambodia’s train service, has no system in place to regularly inspect the state of its tracks, and lacks qualified inspectors to check either tracks or bridges, according to a recent safety audit of firm’s Phnom Penh operation.
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Krom families protest eviction
Sixty-eight Khmer Krom families in Takeo province allege they are being forcibly evicted, charged by fishery authorities with illegally occupying a nature preserve.
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Government Disputes NGO’s National Land Conflict Figures
The Ministry of Land Management called rare, last-minute press conference to defend its handling of land conflicts and to rebut a new NGO report that claims these dispute are rising again after an election-year lull.
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Villagers Say Pailin Governor Gave Orders to Clear Land in 99
A villagers involved in a dispute over 684 hectares of land with Pailin provincial governor Y Chhien claimed yesterday that in 1999 Mr. Chhien a senior military officer distributed axes and families now on the land.
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Illness, fainting after factory-funded meals
About 150 garment workers fainted at two factories owned by the same firm in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday, after lunch provide to employees allegedly caused food poisoning.
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CCAWDU Leaders Deny Corruption During Questioning at Court
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned three senior officials from Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) who stand accused of embezzling $92,929.
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Man Arrested for Sex Abuse of 5-year-old girl
A 41-year-old man was arrested yesterday afternoon for sexually abusing a 5-year-old-girl while she bathed in the Bassac River in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district, police said.
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Ministry, ACU Continue Campaign for Clean High School Exam
The Education Ministry’s crusade to clean up the national high school exam continued yesterday, with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) releasing a statement inviting concerned parties to monitor exams in August and warning that cheats would be failed and effectively banned from sitting again for two years.
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RCAF Soldiers Charged For Smuggling Rosewood
Siem Reap Provincial Court yesterday charged four soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) with illegally logging rosewood and place them in pre-trial detention, an official said.
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National Assembly Meets, Discusses Road Law
The CPP-only National Assembly sat for the second day of its second plenary session since last year’s disputed national election.
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Child Labor Probe on Preah Vihear Sugar Plantation Moves Forward
Police in Preah Vihear province say they have uncovered more evidence of child labor on a Chinese-owned sugarcane plantation and will sand the case to court if further investigation confirms their preliminary findings.
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Lawmaker’s Morning at Park Ended by District Guards
Senior opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua walked into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park yesterday morning, trailed by a small group of news photographers, and stopped to pose in front of about 100 municipal riot police exercising in the park.
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Two Killed, 73 Houses Destroyed by Lightning in Northwest
Officials said two people were killed on Tuesday by separate lightning strikes in Pailin and Kompong Cham provinces as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning about seasonal storms spreading across the country.
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Police Confirm Arrest Villagers in Dispute With Pailin Governor
Police officials yesterday that the villagers involve in a land dispute with a company allegedly owned by Pailin Governor Y Chhien were arrested last Monday and said that one more villager was detained yesterday.
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CPP Lawmakers Return to Work as CNRP Boycott Continues
The National Assembly yesterday convened its second plenary session after a three-month break, amid an ongoing boycott of parliament by all 55 opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect.
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Phnom Penh Police Bust Illegal Cockfighting Arena
Police on Monday broke up an illegal cockfighting event in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district and arrested more than 15 people in the crowd. Many were betting on which bird would survive the bloody fight, a police official said.
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Police Arrest 23 Illegal Loggers, Issue Warnings
Police raided a guesthouse in Poipet City on Monday and arrested 23 men as they waited to be paid for illegally logging rosewood across Cambodia’s border with Thailand, police officials said.
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ADB Predicts Economic Slowdown Due To Social Unrest
Cambodia’s economic growth will slow slightly this year, tamped down by political and labor market uncertainties and raising inflection, the Asian Development Bank said in its 2014 economic outlook report, released yesterday.
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Defense, Civil Parties Object to Idea of Dropping Accusations at KRT
Two defense teams at the Khmer Rouge tribunal said this week they oppose a proposal by prosecutors to allow criminal accusations against suspects and accused persons to be dropped.
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