Telecommunications ministry pushes tech education
The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications urged the students who completed the recent High School Diploma examinations to embrace digital technology, which it said plays an important role in daily life, business, public service and other services. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecommunications-ministry-pushes-tech-education
Unions unite on draft law
7 unions working together have said that they refuse to support a union law that has been drafted as the government has ignored their recommendations. The potential legislation is said to be prohibitively restrictive and the unions have said they will boycott by organizing peaceful ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070850278/National-news/unions-unite-on-draft-law.html
Luxury hotel ‘breaking law’
The Angkor Village Hotel and Resort is breaking the law by refusing to reinstate 67 sacked workers that the Arbitration Council ruled were unlawfully dismissed, Siem Reap’s deputy governor claimed yesterday. After attending a protest of hotel workers and supporters outside the hotel in Siem Reap ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011100651991/National-news/luxury-hotel-breaking-law.html
Questioning begins in two Boeng Kak court cases
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned two residents of the Boeng Kak lake community to appear for questioning today and Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit filed against them by City Hall, a court official said yesterday. The families of the accused have been left out of ...
Boeng Kak families sue - and sued by - government officials
Two-and-a-half weeks after excavators belonging to a CPP senator’s real estate firm demolished the homes of eight families fighting eviction from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake community, those families and the government officials charged with evicting them have taken their battle to court. A pair of ...
Kingdom relieved after US internet law fails to pass
The postponement of two US internet piracy bills last week was met with relief by human rights and media experts in Cambodia, who say the overreaching grasp of the proposed legislation would hinder the internet’s progress and growth in the Kingdom. The US House of Representative’s ...
Court told to act against former opposition leader for insulting King
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana has ordered the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor to begin legal proceedings against the Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM) president, Sam Rainsy, for “insulting” the King, Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin told The Post. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-told-act-against-former-opposition-leader-insulting-king
KNLF founder Sam Serey arrested in Thailand, Cambodia government seeks extradition
Political fugitive Sam Serey, long wanted by the Cambodian government for allegedly operating a “terrorist” group, was arrested in Bangkok on Wednesday for an immigration violation, with the Cambodian government submitting a formal request for his extradition on Thursday. Serey, founder of the dissident group ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/knlf-founder-sam-serey-arrested-thailand-cambodia-government-seeks-extradition
Cops seize wood in Battambang
Nearly five cubic feet of highly priced wood was confiscated in Battambang province’s Samlot district after Military Police in Kampong Lapov commune stopped a truck on Wednesday, said Meas Sovan, the provincial Military Police commander. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cops-seize-wood-battambang
Europe to discuss Kem Sokha’s detention
The European Parliament is set to hold urgent debates on selected human rights, democracy and rule of law topics on Thursday in Strasbourg, France, a briefing released by the body said last week. Discussion on Cambodia will centre on the imprisonment of court-dissolved Cambodia National ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/europe-discuss-kem-sokhas-detention
Deputy prosecutor suspended for ‘clearing’ mangrove forest
Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana on Monday temporarily suspended Kampong Thom provincial deputy prosecutor Chea Sovanthet after he was alleged to have been involved in the clearing 10ha of mangrove forest with 17 tractors. Vong Vathana’s missive to the provincial prosecutor on Monday said ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deputy-prosecutor-suspended-clearing-mangrove-forest
Kheng calls for inquiry into gun smuggling
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday ordered authorities to investigate a potential connection between a recent gun-smuggling case in Thailand and a similar case last year, seemingly contradicting the Defence Ministry’s earlier claim that the weapons didn’t stem from Cambodia. ...
Mech Dara and Leonie Kijewski
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kheng-calls-inquiry-gun-smuggling
Anti-Corruption Unit investigates wealth of sacked RCAF general
A probe was launched on Monday into the excessive wealth of the sacked commander of the Ratanakkiri provincial Military Police, Kim Reaksmey, despite no official complaint having been filed as yet, Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) president Om Yentieng said. “Using our own authority and information available ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-corruption-unit-investigates-wealth-sacked-rcaf-general
Kratie tycoon summoned over logging
Tycoon Kong Kroeng, a well-known timber trader, was summoned to the Kratie provincial Military Police headquarters for questioning on August 15 for his alleged involvement in forestry crimes. The summons was obtained by The Post on Tuesday. It was signed by National Military Police deputy ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-tycoon-summoned-over-logging
Assembly passes construction bill
The National Assembly unanimously approved the Draft Law on Construction on Monday. It is meant to strengthen the management of building projects and consists of 22 chapters and 111 articles. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/assembly-passes-construction-bill
Cambodia judicial system failing rape survivors: report
Survivors of rape in Cambodia are being failed by a judicial system mired in corruption, where perpetrators can pay to have charges dropped and some victims have to marry their attackers, according to a report released Sunday. ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/cambodia-judicial-system-failing-rape-survivors-report/482939
Gov’t chides EU over Sokha statement
A Justice Ministry spokesman yesterday lashed out at European Union representatives for a statement condemning the “judicial harassment” of opposition leader Kem Sokha, while the Ministry of Education slammed a teachers union that backed the CNRP acting president. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-chides-eu-over-sokha-statement
Hun Sen says no discussions with the CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a local media outlet on Sunday that the ruling CPP would not engage in any talks with the opposition CNRP over the jailing of its officials and supporters or recent moves by police to arrest deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha. ...
Ben sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-no-discussions-with-cnrp-114010/
Chroy Changvar residents protest municipality's 'land grab'
More than 100 villagers from Chroy Changvar yesterday protested a draft sub-decree that would make Phnom Penh Municipality the legal owner of 280 hectares of land that are part of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s $3 billion satellite city development. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-protest-municipalitys-land-grab
PM signs off on protected forests
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to mark 18 protected areas over nearly three million hectares of land across Prey Lang forest, according to a Ministry of Environment statement released yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24817/pm-signs-off-on-protected-forests/