Cambodian court sentences 7 Vietnamese brothel workers
The Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted seven Vietnamese nationals of procuring prostitution and sentenced them between six and ten years in prison, according to a verdict pronounced by Judge Kor Vandy. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-11/12/c_133785316.htm
Extortion over Facebook pics earns 10 months
A 24-year-old student was sentenced to 10 months in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for posting 14 nude photos of his girlfriend on Facebook in an attempt to extort money from her in exchange for deleting them. Presiding judge Mong Mony Sorphea said ...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-rejects-britons-appeal-for-retrial-in-underage-rape-case-72776/
Cambodian King seeks investigation of judge over court procedure
In a rare intervention, Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni has demanded an investigation over a Phnom Penh judge who interviewed an opposition party activist without his attorney being present. A lawmaker had complained to the King that Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Keo Mony had questioned Ouch ...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigation-of-judge-12152014160825.html
Court to hears case of Meach Sovannara, other opposition activists late this month
Phnom Penh Municipal Court will hear case of Freedom Park protest on December 25. Chuong Chou Ngy, defense lawyer of CNRP’s senior official Meach Sovannara who was arrested last month for his role in the protest and put in detention at Prey Sar prison, said Saturday ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/court-to-hears-case-of-meach-sovannara-other-opposition-activists-late-this-month-7856
Cambodia manages the recovery of its heritage in Thailand
Cambodia is managing here today the recovery of missing ancient heritage objects that might be in a cache of relics confiscated from a Thai general arrested for various offenses. About a thousand objects of different types were taken a month ago from the high officer in ...
Prensa Latina News Staff
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3373781&Itemid=1
Court ejects CNRP lawmakers from hearing
Lawyers for 11 opposition CNRP activists facing insurrection charges Thursday walked out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in protest after the judges refused to let three CNRP Lawmakers facing the same charges observe what was supposed to be the first full day of hearings. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-ejects-cnrp-lawmakers-from-hearing-75689/
Dissident ‘plotters’ convicted, jailed over t-shirts
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted self-exiled dissident Sourn Serey Ratha of incitement, plotting and obstructing elections, while three alleged co-conspirators were also convicted of plotting and obstructing elections. The four were sentenced to between five and seven years in jail for the charges, ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dissident-plotters-convicted-jailed-over-t-shirts-76152/
Courts ban beach sale in latest Polonsky-Doroshenko dispute
Officials in Preah Sihanouk province last week moved to bar prominent Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko from selling Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach after the Appeal Court ruled that he had violated a contract to transfer the property to fugitive Russian oligarch Sergei Polonsky, court officials said Wednesday. ...
Court hears fraud case brought by general’s daughter
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday heard the case of a couple charged with defrauding the daughter of a high-ranking military official out of $2.5 million in a property deal. The plaintiff, Meas Sopheary, 35, the daughter of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Deputy Commander-in-Chief Meas ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-hears-fraud-case-brought-by-generals-daughter-77039/
Anti-Corruption Unit probing 49 officials in extortion case
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) says it has opened an investigation into a suspected extortion case but urged the media to refrain from reporting on it after a list of the suspects and their phone numbers was posted online by a number of news outlets. ...
Teddy Bear drug smuggler denies charges during trial
A year after a Vietnamese man was caught trying to mail teddy bears stuffed with the drug precursor chemical pseudoephedrine to Australia from Phnom Penh, he appeared in court on Tuesday over another alleged drug smuggling scheme. ...
Hay Pisey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teddy-bear-drug-smuggler-denies-charges-during-trial-78173/
Duo tried after bust
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a local journalist and a Chinese national accused of selling nearly 40 grams of methamphetamine to undercover police last August. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/duo-tried-after-bust
Shoot-out after Laotians snared in drug sting
Stung Treng provincial military police and at least four Laotian drug smugglers exchanged gunfire along the Lao border Tuesday after a man was arrested for attempting to sell more than 1.5 kg of crystal methamphetamine to undercover officers, an official said Wednesday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/shoot-out-after-laotians-snared-in-drug-sting-78704/
Beehive radio employees on strike; Sonando defiant
Ten of Beehive Radio’s 22 employees protested outside the station’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Wednesday in a fifth day of strikes over owner Mam Sonando’s decision not to pay last month’s wages to four staff members he claims failed to regularly show ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beehive-radio-employees-on-strike-sonando-defiant-79551/
Summons rejected by activist pagoda
Residents of the dissident Samaki Rainsy pagoda in the capital have rejected a summons from Phnom Penh Municipal Court for Abbot Thach Hasam Ang and four monks to appear this week on charges of violence and defamation. ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/summons-rejected-activist-pagoda
Areng Valley dam activist summonsed
A prominent Areng Valley activist has been summonsed for questioning at Koh Kong Provincial Court next week over alleged forest crimes. ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/areng-valley-dam-activist-summonsed
Official questioned over $1.5M land ‘fraud’
A former Ministry of Interior police officer was tried by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for allegedly embezzling more than $1.5 million under the pretense of buying land from Kandal province villagers for a company he used to work for. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-questioned-over-15m-land-fraud
Minor party leader charged
League for Democracy Party (LDP) president Khem Veasna was yesterday charged at the Appeal Court on allegations that he cheated a party activist out of $70,000 between 2009 and 2011. The plaintiff, Duk Moeun, had sued Veasna at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in August 2013, ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minor-party-leader-charged
Draft food law could be ready by July: UN
The first draft of a long-awaited food law that aims to regulate food safety and quality “from the farm to the table” could be completed as soon as July, UN and government officials said yesterday. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/draft-food-law-could-be-ready-july-un
UN agencies welcome probe into slaying of unionists
The government’s announcement of a new commission to investigate the decade-old murders of members of the Free Trade Union has been welcomed by some and greeted with skepticism by others. On Saturday two UN agencies – the International Labor Organization and the Office of the High ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12692/un-agencies-welcome-probe-into-slaying-of-unionists/