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  • Kompong Thom Evictees Still Waiting On Land, Short Of Food

    Two months after their forcible evictions to make way for a rubber company, about 600 families in Kompong Thom province’s Santuk district have yet to receive farmland promised as compensation, villagers and rights workers said yesterday.

  • Acid Committee To Hold First Meeting On Law

    The committee drafting a law on the management and us of acid will hold its first meeting later this month, according to Interior Ministry Secretary of State Teng Savong, who will head the committee. According to an Interior Ministry decision on Jan 28,

  • US Man Gets 1 Year In Prison For Sexually Abusing 4 Girls

    The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a 58-year-old US man to a year in prison for indecent acts committed on four underage girls in a rented Daun Penh district house where he gave free English lessons.

  • Ministries Meet In Response To HRW Rehab Report

    Government officials from three ministries met on Tuesday to formulate a unified rejection of a Human Rights Watch report released last week that accused Cambodia’s drug detention centers of serious abuse.

  • Boeng Kak Lake Filling Temporarily Halte, Government Officials Say

    Residents at Phnom Penh’s Boeng kak Lake area reported yesterday that the filling in of the lake has been halted for the past four or five days, though government officials said that the work stoppage was merely temporary. Srah Chak commune chief Chhay Thirith said the contactor hired by the company behind the filling of Boeng kak,

  • Radio Broadcast Lands Five Takeo Men In Court

    Takeo Provincial Court will try five men accused of criminal disinformation over a 2008 free Asia broadcast on the alleged mishandling of funds by local Muslim leaders in Borei Cholsa district, court officials said Monday. Court Director Tith Sothy said the hearing was scheduled for this month.

  • Oddar Meanchey Evictees Say Relocation Site Lacks Food, Water

    Nine families who were evicted in a land dispute with local company Angkor Sugar are facing a serious shortage of food at a temporary relocation site in Samraong city’s Konkriel commune in Oddar Meanchey province, villagers and rights workers said yesterday.

  • 4,004 Apply As Civil Parties To KRT Case 002

    At the start of a weeklong conference of judge and prosecutors yesterday, the Khmer Rouge tribunal announced that 4,004 survivors of the Pol Pot Regime have applied to be civil parties in the recently concluded investigation of five Khmer Rouge Leaders.

  • Villagers Lobby For Effective Sewaged System Boeng Kak Area

    About 50 residents of Village Three in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak Lake area protested in front of City Hall yesterday, demanding municipal authorities build a new sewage system in their neighborhood, which has been flooded by wastewater in recent months after the construction firm Shukaku Inc blocked their local sewage system.

  • Cambodian Logger Wounded In Latest Thai Border Shooting

    A Cambodian man was shot yesterday after Thai forces along the border with Oddar Mean chey province reportedly opened fire on a group of Cambodians after they crossed into Thailand t engage in illegal logging, Cambodian officials said. Provincial cabinet SecretaryGeneral Chhim Savuth said 22-year-old Ly Kleng was hit once in his right arm and grazed by a bullet on his back at about 5:30 am

  • Mondulkiri Villagers Summonded In Case Of Vietnamese Loggers

    Mondolkiri Provincial Court has summoned four villagers to appear for questioning on Thursday over the complaint they filed last month accusing an RCAF soldier of stopping them from detaining Vietnamese illegal loggers, a court official said yesterday. The ethnic Banong villagers on Jan 15 filed a complaint with the court against a soldier known as Mr Proem, who is stationed at the No 8 border post with Vietnam.

  • Rape Warrant Awaits Confirmation Cop Was Fired

    The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will issue an arrest warrant for a police officer accused of raping a 19-year-old woman only when it is confirmed that he officer has been fired by the Interior Ministry for his involvement in the crime, Deputy Prosecutor Sok roeun Said yesterday.

  • Mu Sochua Requests Prime Minister To Clarify And Give Report About Keo Chea Co Ltd-Kh

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  • Tribunal To Enact Sweeping Reform Of Role Of Victims

    Despite months of vocal objection by lawyers for civil parties, the week-long conclave of judges gathering today at the Khmer Rouge tribunal is poised to make a radical departure from the nature of victim participation that the court began in 2007.

  • Beamed In From Paris, Rainsy Videoconferences SRP Party

    At a two-hour rally yesterday evening, opposition leader Sam Rainsy addressed an enthusiastic crowd of around 500 SRP district and commune councilors by videoconference from franc, reiterating that he plans to take evidence of supposed Vietnamese border encroachment to the international community.

  • Wastewater Rises Again Near Boeng Kak Lake

    Residents of Village Three in Boeng kak Lake of Phnom Penh area said yesterday that local authorities were not doing enough to pump out sewage water from under their houses. The wastewater has gathered in the area in recent months, after developer Shukaku blocked off the local sewage system while filling the laked.

  • By Video, Sam Rainsy Courts International Support

    A day after being sentenced to two years in prison, opposition party president Sam Rainsy said he would take his fight to the international community yesterday, claiming he had the evidence in his hands to prove land encroachment by Vietnam.

  • 6 Chinese Company guards Accused Of Assault At Sihanouk Ville Road Site

    Villagers in Preah Sihanouk province filed complaints with police and a rights group yesterday accusing guards hired by a Chinese company of brutally beating four people, including a 68-year-old woman, who tried to stop the firm’s bulldozers from clearing farmland, police and villagers said yesterday.

  • Facing Jail From Afar, Future Of Sam Rainsy Uncertain

    Slapped with a criminal conviction and living in Paris in self-imposed exile, SRP President Sam Rainsy is left with the task of maintaining his political relevancy as well as his job as the leader of the country’s main opposition party.

  • PM Warns Military To Cease Illicit Activities

    Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned all military officers to keep their hands clean of illicit activities, such as luxury wood smuggling and illegal fishing, or to be prepared to face punishment.

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