Truck drivers block major roads in protest
More than 400 right-hand-drive cargo truck owners—who are requesting they be allowed to keep the illegal vehicles unmodified after paying import and road taxes—blocked busy Phnom Penh roads in protest on Wednesday morning. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/truck-drivers-block-major-roads-in-protest-103736/
Life miserable, help us: Montagnard refugees
Eight ethnic Jarai Montagnard Christians who fled alleged persecution in Vietnam and sought refuge in Cambodia are living in poor conditions, one of the refugees told Khmer Times yesterday. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19259/life-miserable--help-us--montagnard-refugees/
Bus driver, assistant arrested over accident
Police in Kampong Cham province arrested a bus driver and his assistant shortly after their bus struck a tractor, injuring three people early on Monday morning. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bus-driver-assistant-arrested-over-accident
Border drug battle to get push in new year
Cambodian authorities have signalled their intent to prioritise cross-border trafficking, amid a planned boost in funding from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. ...
Mech Dara and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-drug-battle-get-push-new-year
Inspections planned for capital rice wine makers
Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Bun Serey yesterday told the city’s district governors to find all rice wine producers and sellers in their jurisdictions in anticipation of planned mass inspections. ...
Morn Vanntey and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/inspections-planned-capital-rice-wine-makers
Drug crimes double in Cambodia last year
The number of drug cases and people arrested for drug crimes in Cambodia in 2015 more than doubled year-on-year, while the volume of drugs seized shot up 18- fold, local media reported on Friday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19628/drug-crimes-double-in-cambodia-last-year/
PM touts exemption for land bequests
The government has announced its intention to scrap a 4 per cent fee levied on the transfer of property when the transfer is being made as an inheritance. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-touts-exemption-land-bequests
Drug trial delayed over false statement claims
Two women charged with drug trafficking told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday that their original police statements, which placed them in a trafficking ring, had been falsified by police. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/drug-trial-delayed-over-false-statement-claims-85494/
Structures by Phnom Penh canal flattened
A collection of houses and other structures belonging to nine families living alongside a canal in the capital’s Russey Keo district was destroyed yesterday by a large group of men sent by local authorities. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/structures-phnom-penh-canal-flattened
Rights worker alleges threat amid inquiry
A rights group official said he was threatened for looking into a December homicide case in Pursat province that left one woman dead and her brother injured. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-worker-alleges-threat-amid-inquiry
Government announces delay of license, registration checks
Traffic police will not fine road users for offenses related to licenses and vehicle documentation until March 15, while other provisions of the new Land Traffic Law will continue to be enforced as usual, officials said on Tuesday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-announces-delay-of-license-registration-checks-105904/
New gov’t task force continues illegal-logging raids
Authorities raided yet another rubber plantation on Tuesday as part of a new dragnet to catch illegal loggers in eastern Cambodia, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-govt-task-force-continues-illegal-logging-raids-105901/
Ministry seeks to arrest photoshopper abroad
The Interior Ministry has asked Interpol to help arrest a “Cambodian living abroad” it believes is responsible for doctoring and circulating an image of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife, according to a ministry spokesman. ...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-seeks-to-arrest-photoshopper-abroad-105899/
Smuggled cigarettes pour into Vietnam from Cambodia ahead of lunar new year holiday
Large volumes of cigarettes are being smuggled from Cambodia to Vietnam as the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday approaches, despite Vietnamese authorities’ efforts to deter the situation. ...
Tuoi Tre News team
http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/32975/smuggled-cigarettes-pour-into-vietnam-from-cambodia-ahead-of-lunar-new-year-holiday
Foreign affairs minister dodges defamation case
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has thrown out a defamation case against Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong that was filed by Khmer Power Party (KPP) President Sourn Serey Ratha in December after Mr. Namhong called the politician’s supporters terrorists. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/foreign-affairs-minister-dodges-defamation-case-107255/
Ponzi scheme victims petition prime minister for intervention
Furious investors who claim they were cheated out of thousands of dollars by a now defunct financial firm that directed them to buy stock in a Hong Kong-based ponzi scheme set up camp in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house on Thursday, imploring him ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ponzi-scheme-victims-petition-prime-minister-for-intervention-112235/
Rainsy hit with third court case in three weeks
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has become the latest government official to accuse opposition leader Sam Rainsy of defamation, with a lawyer for the ex-president filing a complaint against Mr. Rainsy over false claims that the 1980s communist regime sentenced King Norodom Sihanouk to death. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rainsy-hit-with-third-court-case-in-three-weeks-101823/
Police motorbike rammed by truck with state license plates
The pickup truck that intentionally rear-ended a police motorbike in Kandal province on Saturday night —killing one officer and seriously injuring another—bore state license plates and has been used by an established timber smuggling outfit, officials said on Monday. ...
Guesthouse guard on the run after murder by chair leg
A guard at a guesthouse in central Phnom Penh is on the run after beating his colleague to death with a wooden chair leg in their shared bedroom on Monday morning, according to police and the family that owns the guesthouse. ...
Saing Soenthrith and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/guesthouse-guard-on-the-run-after-murder-by-chair-leg-103622/
Ministry urged to push law regulating alcohol ads and sale
Youth organizations and civil society organizations are calling on the Ministry of Health to push ahead with a proposed law regulating the sale of alcohol, saying that alcohol is damaging the country’s development. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19222/ministry-urged-to-push-law-regulating-alcohol-ads-and-sale/