More marijuana destroyed in Takeo
Nearly 15,000 marijuana plants were destroyed in Takeo province’s Kirivong district on Wednesday evening, in the second such crackdown this week. ...
Mom Kunthea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/40079/more-marijuana-destroyed-in-takeo/
CLV countries boost cooperation against banknote counterfeit
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have been committed to enhance their cooperation in combating counterfeit banknotes. The commitment was made at a symposium held in Hanoi, Vietnam last Friday attended by relevant officials from the three neighbouring countries, according to the National Bank of Cambodia’s news ...
Khan Sophirom
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106872
Police seeking four more for allegedly smuggling weapons
Police are searching for four suspects believed to have carried weapons illegally across the Thai border in a case in which three Cambodians and six Thais were arrested last month for alleged weapons trafficking, a Banteay Meanchey police official said on Monday. ...
Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seeking-four-more-for-allegedly-smuggling-weapons-133090/
‘Seiha’ releases Sokha video
Material apparently aimed at incriminating jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha continued to flow in over the weekend, with pro-government leaker “Seiha” releasing another video of Sokha expressing his gratitude to the US government for its assistance in building democracy in Cambodia. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/seiha-releases-sokha-video
‘Death of democracy’: CNRP dissolved by Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party, removing the only existing electoral threat to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s grip on power in the Kingdom and undoing in one stroke the opposition’s gains over the last five years. ...
Ben Sokhean, Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/death-democracy-cnrp-dissolved-supreme-court-ruling
Surveillance up ahead of CNRP verdict
Checkpoints went up on national roads, barricades were dumped in front of the Supreme Court and police paid unannounced visits to civil society organisations and opposition officials as darkness fell yesterday ahead of today’s Supreme Court hearing on the dissolution of the opposition CNRP. ...
Niem Chheng, Daphne Chen and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/surveillance-ahead-cnrp-verdict
Hun Sen rails against traffic scofflaws, calls for crackdown on offences
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday threatened to fire Daun Penh District Governor Sok Penh Vuth over growing disregard for traffic laws among the public as local authorities scrambled to enforce a new crackdown on offenders. Hun Sen urged motorists to obey traffic laws, appealing specifically to ...
Kuoch Masy and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-rails-against-traffic-scofflaws-calls-crackdown-offences
Work-related deaths, injuries rose in 2012
The number of officially recorded workplace deaths in Cambodia increased by more than 25 per cent from 2011 to 2012, while the vast majority of those injured at work were women, National Social Security Fund figures released yesterday reveal. A total of 59 people were reported ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061466277/National/work-related-deaths-injuries-rose-in-2012.html
Murdered reporter’s wife asks court to expand investigation
The wife of slain journalist Taing Try filed a complaint with the Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday urging judicial officials to bring charges against two more men, including a local military police chief, for her husband’s murder on Sunday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/murdered-reporters-wife-asks-court-to-expand-investigation-69986/
Thailand releases 33 detained Cambodians
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the release of 33 Cambodians who had been held in prison since they were arrested seven weeks ago after crossing the border in Banteay Meanchey province to log valuable rosewood, officials said. ...
Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-releases-33-detained-cambodians-70265/
Doroshenko released from prison
Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was released from prison in Sihanoukville over the weekend after the Supreme Court granted him bail due to his poor health, more than two months after he was jailed on charges related to a dispute with his recently deported investment partner, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/doroshenko-released-from-prison-in-sihanoukville-85141/
Korea test cheaters arrested
Seventeen young people were charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and released on bail yesterday after they were caught allegedly falsifying documents while taking a Korean language test administered as a precursor to working in South Korea, police said. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korea-test-cheaters-arrested
Court denies appeal for rights worker in death threat case
The Appeal Court on Friday upheld a Phnom Penh Municipal Court decision to throw out the case of an NGO staffer who claims his life was threatened by security guards working for property magnate Khun Sear at a disputed site in Tuol Kok district. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-denies-appeal-for-rights-worker-in-death-threat-case-87330/
Unions suggest changes to law
Members of 30 independent and government-leaning labour unions and labour advocacy groups met yesterday to discuss aspects of a draft trade union law they want altered, and strategies for accomplishing the changes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-suggest-changes-law
Dozens arrested in separate drug busts at arcade, internet cafe
In separate cases over the weekend, police and military police arrested dozens of people caught smoking crystal methamphetamine at a video arcade in Phnom Penh and an Internet cafe in Siem Reap City, according to officials, who said the venues had been converted into drug ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dozens-arrested-in-separate-drug-busts-at-arcade-internet-cafe-87984/
Land rights protesters arrested
Six activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeung Kak communities were arrested on Saturday morning while handing out leaflets denouncing the controversial NGO law, passed by the National Assembly last week. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-rights-protesters-arrested
We’ll need that in writing: cops
A family calling for what a rights group says is a long overdue investigation into the disappearance of their son during a violent demonstration in Phnom Penh some 19 months ago has been encouraged – if somewhat indirectly – to file a formal complaint with ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-need-writing-cops
Forest activists asked to court over protest
The Preah Vihear provincial prosecutor has summoned 11 members of Prey Preah Roka Forest Community Network to testify in a series of cases involving fraud and incitement to cause social unrest in connection with a planned protest for the release of Rong Chhun, the president ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-asked-court-over-protest
Online publisher arrested over land grab
Police in Mondulkiri province on Tuesday arrested a local online publisher accused of encroaching on government protected land and drug use. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50766062/online-publisher-arrested-over-land-grab/
Government approves action plan on preventing violence against women
During a plenary session of a cabinet meeting this morning, a new draft national action plan to prevent violence against women was approved. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50771800/government-approves-action-plan-on-preventing-violence-against-women/