Bus company boycott escalates as assault case continues
A boycott of the Virak Buntham bus company launched by businesses here is intensifying and gaining increased support after alleged criminal activity on its routes was exposed.The most recent allegation against the company, an alleged sexual assault against a British tourist, was reported earlier this ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17154/bus-company-boycott-escalates-as-assault-case-continues/
Demonstrators beat up 2 Cambodian opposition lawmakers
Two members of Cambodia’s opposition party were beaten up Monday outside the National Assembly by protesters who were demanding that the deputy opposition leader step down as parliamentary vice president. The opposition party issued a statement appealing to authorities to immediately arrest and prosecute the ...
Associated Press News Staff
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/demonstrators-beat-up-2-cambodian-opposition-lawmakers/2015/10/26/b316f224-7bcb-11e5-bfb6-65300a5ff562_story.html
Cambodia to tighten security during Russian PM's visit
Security will be tightened in Cambodia during the visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev from Nov. 22 to 24, the National Police’s website reported on Saturday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6691713/2015/11/20/cambodia-tighten-security-during-russian-pms-visit
Angkor Wat tourists have new dress code
Tourists heading for Angkor Wat will have to watch what they wear from next month onwards, the Apsara Authority announced yesterday. ...
Thik Kaliyann
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/angkor-wat-tourists-have-new-dress-code
Hun Sen bodyguards had hand in beating of opposition lawmakers: witnesses
The mob that beat up two Cambodian opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly building in Phnom Penh early this week included about 200 young men from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s corps of bodyguards who were driven in trucks to the protest and later boasted about ...
Prach Chev
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/cambodia-beating-10302015160823.html
Sam Rainsy faces arrest warrant
Citing a seven-year-old defamation case, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy, forcing the travelling Cambodia National Rescue Party president to choose whether to stay abroad or return and face a two-year prison term.The warrant, stemming from ...
Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/sam-rainsy-faces-arrest-warrant
Police officer killed during chase of timber-filled truck
A police officer was killed and a second badly injured in Phnom Penh on Saturday night after their motorbike was intentionally rear-ended while they were in pursuit of a truck loaded with valuable timber, officials said Sunday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-killed-during-chase-of-timber-filled-truck-103530/
Police urged to stop covering up crimes
Cambodia’s National Police spokesman, speaking in a recent video, has urged police to stop hiding crimes from the public, lest they encounter unspecified “problems”.In the undated video, which surfaced on Facebook on Saturday, national police spokesman Kirth Chantharith can be seen speaking at a podium ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-urged-stop-covering-crimes
Appeal court upholds Veng Sreng riot convictions
The Appeal Court on Thursday upheld convictions of intentional violence and causing property damage against 13 unionists and workers who were arrested during a riot outside a Phnom Penh industrial park on January 3, 2014, at which military police shot dead at least five people. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/appeal-court-upholds-veng-sreng-riot-convictions-107532/
Alleged attackers at capitol protest to sue
The president of a tuk-tuk and motodop drivers’ association, whose members were recorded on video brutally beating protesting bus drivers over the weekend, said he would file complaints against prominent union and civil society leaders for sparking the violence his own group was accused of ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alleged-attackers-capitol-protest-sue
Beaten lawmaker is summonsed
Opposition lawmaker Kong Saphea – one of the two parliamentarians brutally beaten by anti-CNRP protesters outside of the National Assembly last year – has been summonsed to appear for questioning over a complaint regarding property stolen from him during the attack. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beaten-lawmaker-summonsed
As union law vote nears, employers call for last-minute changes
Representatives of employers from Cambodia’s industrial sector called for changes to the contentious draft union law yesterday. They criticized the government’s enforcement of strike regulations while requesting changes to the law that include higher thresholds for forming unions and more powers for dissolving unions. ...
Jonathan Cox and Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23356/as-union-law-vote-nears--employers-call-for-last-minute-changes/
NGOs vow to continue union law opposition
Following the passage of the controversial trade union law on Monday, international rights groups say they will continue to oppose the legislation, which will now move to the Senate for approval. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-vow-continue-union-law-opposition
Court questions union leader over forgery
Prominent union leader Pav Sina was questioned in court on Thursday about a forgery and disinformation complaint filed against him by a garment factory, a charge he rejected as being an invention meant to stall attempts by workers to unionize. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-questions-union-leader-over-forgery-115476/
'No intention to infect,' Cambodian health worker says at HIV outbreak trial
An unlicensed health worker charged in Cambodia with causing a mass HIV infection by treating patients with reused needles said on Tuesday that he had always sterilized needles before using them and has no idea how the infection was spread. ...
Hum Chamroeun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/trial-10202015134546.html
Three RCAF members charged for beatings
Three men, all members of the military, were yesterday charged over the savage assault of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament last week during a pro-CPP protest, as the spotlight intensified on the role of the armed forces in the attack.Royal Cambodian Armed Forces members Sot ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea, Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-rcaf-members-charged-beatings
Cambodia, Indonesia send 254 telephone scammers back to China; suspects targeted Chinese
A total of 254 Chinese citizens arrested in Cambodia and Indonesia for running telephone and Internet scams targeting Chinese victims were repatriated Tuesday to face charges in China, the Public Security Ministry said. ...
Sopheng Cheang
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/10/cambodia-indonesia-send-254-telephone-scammers-back-to-china-suspects-targeted/
Compensation sought for attacked MPs
A lawyer for two opposition lawmakers brutally beaten outside parliament late last month has filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court demanding $50,000 in compensation. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/compensation-sought-attacked-mps
Rights group: Drop warrant for Cambodia opposition leader
An international rights group Saturday called the warrant for the arrest of Cambodia’s opposition leader in a years-old defamation case “politically motivated”, saying it should be dropped immediately. ...
Turkish Weekly News Staff
http://www.turkishweekly.net/2015/11/14/news/rights-group-drop-warrant-for-cambodia-opposition-leader/
Survivor and refugee finds healing in writing her memoir
The author Ly Sambo survived the Khmer Rouge and eventually made her way to America as a refugee. Her story is not uncommon from that of other survivors of Cambodia’s atrocities and wars. But she says she helped herself reconcile with the brutal past by ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/survivor-and-refugee-finds-healing-in-writing-her-memoir/3107216.html