Sok Hour loses appeal
The Appeal Court yesterday rejected a bid by Hong Sok Hour’s lawyer to secure the imprisoned opposition senator’s freedom and avoid being forced to hand over further evidence, including the lawmaker’s laptop. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sok-hour-loses-appeal
Foreign national pleads ignorance in drug case
A Nigerian man charged with drug trafficking told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that he did not know the packet he was handling contained methamphetamine. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-national-pleads-ignorance-drug-case
Mondolkiri police chief orders manhunt despite protests
Mondolkiri provincial police chief Toch Yon has ordered authorities in Keo Seima district to search for fugitive former military police official Sou Marith, after the district police chief said last week that he would not organize a manhunt without further funding. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mondolkiri-108626/
$13k stolen in latest holdup of wing kiosk
Police in Kompong Thom province are searching for three men who held up the owners of a Wing mobile payment kiosk in Kompong Svay district on Monday night, the latest in a string of similar robberies. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/13k-stolen-in-latest-holdup-of-wing-kiosk-108616/
Over ninety poisoned by noodles; vendor shut down
More than 90 people had been hospitalized in Takeo province as of Tuesday evening after eating tainted noodles during a Buddhist ceremony at a pagoda on Monday, officials said. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ninety-poisoned-noodles-vendor-shut-108624/
Kampong Chhnang factory boss calls scuffle ‘murder attempt’
A boss at a garment factory in Kampong Chhnang province has accused the husband and a friend of a recently fired employee of chasing down her car and trying to kill her. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-factory-boss-calls-scuffle-murder-attempt
Workshop to air views on draft union law
A public consultation session on the controversial draft union law will be held at the National Assembly next Wednesday, officials confirmed yesterday. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workshop-air-views-draft-union-law
Sihanoukville beach businesses given brief reprieve
Sihanoukville beachfront businesses that were due to be bulldozed this weekend have been granted a temporary stay of execution. ...
Morn Vanntey
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sihanoukville-beach-businesses-given-brief-reprieve
Three briefly held over Kampot roadblock
The Kampot Provincial Court will continue to investigate three villagers and an NGO worker after they were arrested and released on Friday for allegedly setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from timber and firewood transporters in Kampot’s Chhouk district, according to officials. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-briefly-held-over-kampot-roadblock
Korea envoy claims gov’t probe a ‘setup’
Cambodia’s controversial ambassador to South Korea, Suth Dina, has released a public plea to Prime Minister Hun Sen to safeguard his job, amid what appears to be an investigation by the Foreign Affairs Ministry into his office, it emerged yesterday. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/korea-envoy-claims-govt-probe-setup
Owner of plants burned in pot bust
More than 350 marijuana plants were destroyed by police during a raid on Tuesday that led to the owner’s arrest in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district, while a second suspect involved in the operation is at large. ម្ចាស់ដើមកញ្ឆារត្រូវបានចាប់ខ្លួន ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22867/owner-of-plants-burned-in-pot-bust/
New regulations for life insurance
New regulations are to be bought in for the life insurance sector, which has grown from $60 million in 2014 to $80 million last year, according to a senior official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22970/new-regulations-for-life-insurance/
Police officer sued over alleged threat to shoot journalist
A journalist in Pailin province yesterday filed a lawsuit against a local police officer for allegedly threatening to kill him if he published a story about a drunken shooting spree the officer went on last week. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-sued-over-alleged-threat-111209/
Big tobacco shaped smoking laws, policies
In 2008, British American Tobacco (BAT) was awarded its third straight “Gold Medal” from Prime Minister Hun Sen in recognition of good corporate stewardship, according to the company’s July newsletter. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/big-tobacco-shaped-smoking-laws-policies-111556/
Full traffic law to be enforced next month
Beginning on May 1, traffic police will ramp up enforcement of the new Traffic Law after a month and a half delay, according to a police statement yesterday. Police officials said enough drivers throughout the country now understood the Law, paving the way for stricter ...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24391/full-traffic-law-to-be-enforced-next-month/
Publisher says murder confession was coerced
A newspaper publisher charged with murdering his friend in Phnom Penh last year told the municipal court on Thursday that his confession to military police was obtained through torture, but the presiding judge argued that such a claim would have “broken out” in the media ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/publisher-says-murder-confession-was-coerced-113986/
Man arrested for sexually assaulting children
Police arrested a man in Koh Kong province on Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting his friend’s two young daughters over the course of a day and a night. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/man-arrested-for-sexually-assaulting-children-113984/
Chinese, Taiwanese arrested in internet-phone fraud case
Twenty-seven Chinese and Taiwanese nationals were arrested during a raid on a villa in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district on Monday on suspicion of operating an internet-phone scam, officials said. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-taiwanese-arrested-in-internet-phone-fraud-case-114080/
Disgraced general loses supreme court verdict
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a guilty verdict and 20-year prison sentence handed down to a former military general and an accomplice in 2013 for large-scale drug trafficking. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/disgraced-general-loses-supreme-court-verdict-114071/
Police investigate logs left by rubber plantation road
Police in Ratanakkiri province say they are investigating the origin of a pile of first grade logs stashed along a road built by and leading out of a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation that has long been the target of illegal logging accusations. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/police-investigate-logs-left-by-rubber-plantation-road-115066/