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NGOs Urge Gov’t to Keep Searching for Missing Veng Sreng Teen
A group of 54 local and international non-government groups said yesterday that the state may be behind the disappearance of a 16-year-old last seen bleeding from a bullet wound at a garment worker protest in January, and urged the government to investigate.
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Military Alliances Paying Off for Developer
A Chinese developer with a “family-like” relationship to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit has accelerated construction at its $5 billion resort- ostensibly by royal decree in 2010- in a protected national park in Preah Sihanouk province.
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Fish Imports From Cambodia Banned by EU
The European Commission (E.C.) will today ban all fish imports from Cambodia, carrying through on its threat made in November to punish the country for failing to show genuine commitment to tackling the global problem of illegal fishing, according to a memo released Friday.
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Magnate’s Ex-Partner Denies Role in Murder Plot
Another player in the Khaou family murder saga sought to clear her name in a letter last week in which she refuted allegations that she cooperated in a plot to kill the wife and daughter of commerce Minister Sun Chanthol.
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Commune Police Chief Kills Girlfriend, Flees
A local police chief in Takeo province allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend on Friday, then fled the scene, provincial police said yesterday.
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Gov’t Spokesman Once Anti-Viet Cong Commado
These days, Phay Siphan claims an entire wing of the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, where he serves as both a secretary of state and spokesman for the administration of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Shake-up May Move Judicial Figures to New Position
Twenty judges and prosecutors may soon find themselves pulling up stakes and tackling new jurisdictions, according to a draft list detailing a wide-ranging judicial reshuffling obtained by the Post yesterday.
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Cambodia Summons Thai Ambassador Over Deaths of Loggers
Thailand’s ambassador to Cambodia was formally summoned on Friday to the Foreign Affairs Ministry over the shooting death last week of a Cambodian man who was among nine allegedly caught by soldiers cutting down forest across the country’s north-western border with Thailand.
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Campaigners Call for Disappearance Probe
Local and international civil society groups, including some of the world’s largest trade unions, are urging the government to immediately and thoroughly investigate the case of 16-year-old Khim Sophath, who mysteriously disappeared during a violent crackdown on protests in early January.
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Two Murdered Within Hours in Phnom Penh
Two men were murdered hours apart in separate shooting and stabbing incidents in Phnom Penh on Friday night and early Saturday morning, police reported.
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Phnom Penh District Police Chiefs Reshuffled
The police chiefs of four districts in Phnom Penh were rotated on Friday in an apparent effort to strengthen the city’s security, municipal penal police chief Eng Sophea said.
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Seven Arrested, Two Injured in Wedding Fight
Seven were arrested and two others injured Friday night following a fight that broke out at a wedding in Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district, according to local police.
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Bus Full of Rights Activists Allegedly Shot At by Gunman
Police in Phnom Penh are investigating claims by a busload of prominent anti-eviction activists that a man fired a bullet into the windshield of the chartered bus they were riding in on their way back to Phnom Penh Saturday night.
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Woman and Child Found Dead in Plastic Bag
Police said yesterday they were investigating the murder of a woman and a child whose dead bodies were discovered inside a plastic bag in Kompong Speu province on Saturday morning.
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Khieu Samphan’s Request for Trial Delay Denied
The Trial Chamber at Khmer Rouge tribunal on Friday denied a request from former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, 82, who wanted the second phase of the trail against him to be delayed until a judgment and all potential appeals have been rendered in the first.
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Regional Unions Push for Minimum Wage Hike
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) urged the Cambodian government on Friday to raise the minimum wage of garment factory workers, to find justice for the five workers killed and to release the 21 workers in jail since January.
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School is Out, Streets Clog in Phnom Penh
Twice a day, traffic officer Troeung Sophoan takes his place at the intersection of Pasteur Street and street 306 and braces for the predictable: a traffic jam as parents pick up their children from the British International School of Phnom Penh.
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Doubt Cast Over Pao’s Presence at Hearing
The Court of Appeal is to hold a bail hearing Monday for Vorn Pao, a rights worker who has been detained in a six maximum-security prison in Kompong Cham province since January 3, a court official said Friday.
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Hun Sen Invites China, Malaysia to Search for MH370 Plane
After two weeks of International search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday invited China and Malaysia to search for the plane in Cambodia.
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Police Officers Charge With Corruption
Kompot provincial Court has charged two district police chiefs with seven counts of corruption and detained them ahead of trial, prison and court officials said yesterday.
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