Three parties promise to free Sokha, other ‘prisoners of conscience’
The campaign season is now underway in the Kingdom and at least three political parties have included in their platform promises to release the “political prisoners” of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) should they win the July 29 polls. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-parties-promise-free-sokha-other-prisoners-conscience
Choeung Ek project awaits approval
Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng on Thursday signed a research report conducted by Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) over 12 months on sewer system development at Choeung Ek lake in the capital. The move will allow Jica to design a development project. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/choeung-ek-project-awaits-approval
Sihanoukville waste firm fined $250K
Chugyuen Plastic Manufacture Co Ltd has been ordered to return 83 containers filled with plastic waste found at Sihanoukville port to their countries of origin. The company has been fined more than one billion riel ($250,000) for illegally importing the waste. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-waste-firm-fined-250k
Oknha detained in Kratie prison for forestry crimes
A kratie provincial investigating judge has ordered well-known timber trader and oknha (tycoon) Kong Kroeng, and his son-in-law Math Naseat, to be detained at the provincial prison after they were questioned last week about their alleged role in forestry crimes. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oknha-detained-kratie-prison-forestry-crimes
Duped workers detain suspected con man in Phnom Penh
A group of 90 disgruntled workers protested Tuesday outside the office of a recruitment company that they say abandoned most of them at a border checkpoint on Saturday morning and cheated them out of the hundreds of dollars they had paid to work in Thailand. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/duped-workers-detain-suspected-con-man-in-phnom-penh-95157/
Minister promises further drops in poverty, hunger rates
Cambodia will continue to see reductions in poverty, hunger and malnutrition as it continues to prioritize development of the agricultural industry, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ouk Rabun said on Friday at an event to mark World Food Day in Kandal Province. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16886/minister-promises-further-drops-in-poverty--hunger-rates/
Lawyer questioned in CNRP lawmaker attack investigation
A lawyer for two opposition lawmakers brutally beaten in front of the National Assembly two months ago appeared at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday on behalf of his clients, who earlier this month filed an attempted murder complaint against their attackers. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyer-questioned-in-cnrp-lawmaker-attack-investigation-104086/
As elections loom, voter registration stalled
A group of election-monitoring NGOs have expressed alarm at what they say are inexplicable delays in starting to rebuild the national voter list, with concerns that the National Election Committee (NEC) may be leaving things too late for the 2017 commune elections. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-elections-loom-voter-registration-stalled-110905/
Planned center for mentally ill faces low supply of experts
As the government plans to transfer roughly 60 percent of detainees at the notorious Prey Speu detention center to a “mental illness” center in Kandal province, mental health experts expressed doubts this week over the country’s capacity to provide proper care. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/planned-center-for-mentally-ill-faces-low-supply-of-experts-115420/
Army to guard voting stations
Voters in next year’s elections will now have to make their choices under the watchful eye of the army after the government issued a decree yesterday establishing permanent military forces at national and sub-national election sites between 2016 and 2019. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27376/army-to-guard-voting-stations/
Cabinet approves MoU with Cambodia for cooperation in tourism
The Union Cabinet today approved an agreement signed between India and Cambodia for bilateral cooperation in the tourism sector that aims at enhancing investment and promoting exchange of experience in marketing, destination development and management in this field. ...
The Economic Times News Staff
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/travel/cabinet-approves-mou-with-cambodia-for-cooperation-in-tourism/articleshow/49059030.cms
Cambodia blocks outside doctors from treating jailed opposition senator
Cambodian authorities are refusing to allow doctors from the human rights group Licadho to visit a jailed opposition lawmaker held at Prey Sar prison in the capital Phnom Penh, claiming the facility already provides adequate care, sources said. ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/doctors-09302015160023.html
Russian PM’s arrival met with security, limited media access
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev landed at Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday evening and was greeted by a delegation of senior Cambodian government officials and a large security contingent—but few members of the local media, who were largely barred from covering his visit. ...
Kang Sothear and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/russian-pms-arrival-met-with-security-limited-media-access-101205/
Rainsy misses court date over conspiracy charges
As expected, opposition leader Sam Rainsy failed to show up at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for a scheduled questioning date on Friday, as he remains abroad after being hit with a slew of criminal charges and an arrest warrant in recent weeks. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-misses-court-date-over-conspiracy-charges-102167/
Workers sent to court over strikes in Bavet economic zones
Four workers were questioned at the Svay Rieng Provincial Court on Sunday for allegedly participating in violent protests that effectively shut down factory operations in two special economic zones (SEZs) in Bavet City last week, according to officials. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/workers-sent-to-court-over-strikes-in-bavet-economic-zones-103532/
VN army concessions are ‘unconstitutional’
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has levelled further criticism at the Vietnamese army’s alleged control of 40,000 hectares of economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, claiming that the grants are in violation of the Cambodian constitution. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vn-army-concessions-are-unconstitutional
Mexican national convicted of sexual abuse
A 60-year-old Mexican national working at a school in Sihanoukville was convicted of sexually abusing two young girls yesterday and sentenced to two years in prison, with one year of the sentence suspended, according to APLE Cambodia, a child rights NGO. ...
Jonathan Greig and Buth Reaksmeykongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21605/mexican-national-convicted-of-sexual-abuse/
UN envoy sees rights deteriorate in absence
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia said the political climate had clearly deteriorated in the six months since her first fact-finding mission and that the country remained at a “dangerous tipping point” ahead of commune and national elections. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-sees-rights-deteriorate-in-absence-110703/
Workshop on mechanisms and criteria for determining minimum wages in Cambodia
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training will organize a workshop on “Mechanisms and Criteria for Determining Minimum Wages in Cambodia” on 22 September 2015 from 8:30 am, at a meeting room A of the ministry’s office. ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Security beefed up for Russia’s Medvedev during 4-day visit
Large numbers of security forces have been deployed at locations in Siem Reap province and Phnom Penh to protect Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who arrived in Cambodia on Sunday with a delegation of Russian officials for a combination of official meetings and sightseeing. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/security-beefed-up-for-russias-medvedev-during-4-day-visit-101155/