Drunken RCAF soldier accidentally shoots 12-year-old boy
A major in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Saturday night after he accidentally shot a 12-year-old boy in a drunken attempt to “clean the barrel of his gun” with a live round, officials said Sunday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drunken-rcaf-soldier-accidentally-shoots-12-year-old-boy-79830/
Hefty sentence: Ketamine bust lands duo 25 years
Two Vietnamese nationals were each sentenced to 25 years in prison for concealing nearly 40 kilograms of powdered ketamine in a Phnom Penh condo last year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hefty-sentence-ketamine-bust-lands-duo-25-years
City hall shuts down rally against consumption of dog meat
A planned demonstration against the consumption of dog meat was shut down before it could begin in Phnom Penh on Sunday after city authorities said the group did not have permission to gather. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-shuts-down-rally-against-consumption-of-dog-meat-81445/
Gov’t puts pressure on hotels where boys recently drowned
The Tourism Ministry has downgraded the one-year operating licenses of two hotels where children recently drowned in swimming pools in an effort to make them compensate the victims’ families and carry out safety upgrades. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-puts-pressure-on-hotels-where-boys-recently-drowned-82698/
Beaten handcart-puller files complaint against military police
A handcart-puller who was knocked unconscious by military police during a May 26 protest in Poipet City—sparking an attack on the local customs office—on Friday filed a court complaint requesting $10,000 in compensation from his attackers, a rights monitor said Sunday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beaten-handcart-puller-files-complaint-against-military-police-85145/
Chinese economic fugitive arrested, deported after hiding in Cambodia for 6 years
A Cambodian senior police officer confirmed Wednesday that Chinese economic fugitive Sun Xin, 46, and a former cashier of the Beijing municipal bureau of press, had worked in a factory in west Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province for six years before being arrested and sent back ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://bit.ly/1e4Rawv
Ghost workers still in government office
The spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Kiev Sopheak, said that there are still ghost workers in government offices, even though the Anti-Corruption Unit cracked down on this practice last year. ...
Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12223/ghost-workers-still-in-government-office/
Activists, rights worker detained before March
Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National Assembly illegal. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/environmental-activists-rights-worker-detained-before-march-86603/
Gov’t to reinvestigate Union leaders’ slayings
An interministerial committee has been established to once again investigate the assassinations of Free Trade Union leaders Chea Vichea, Hy Vuthy and Ros Sovannareth between 2004 and 2007, according to a government decree obtained Thursday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-reinvestigate-union-leaders-slayings-86605/
Vietnam seizes ivory that passed through Cambodia
Police in southern Vietnam seized 387 kilograms of elephant tusks last week after the ivory passed through the Prek Chak international border checkpoint in Kampot province, the state-run Viet Nam News newspaper reported Friday. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnam-seizes-ivory-that-passed-through-cambodia-87355/
Assembly members quarrel over border letter
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun again went on the attack Friday against CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An, who has been at the fore of the opposition’s recent campaign to highlight Vietnam’s alleged incursions into Cambodia. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/assembly-members-quarrel-over-border-letter-88864/
Hundreds demonstrate against pending NGO law in provinces
Hundreds of people gathered in provinces around the country Wednesday to demonstrate against a pending NGO law that opponents fear will be used to muzzle groups that criticize the ruling CPP. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-demonstrate-against-pending-ngo-law-in-provinces-89254/
Border experts want treaties with Vietnam nullified
Cambodian border experts say the government should nullify treaties it has with Vietnam and begin again border demarcation under the 1991 Paris Peace Accords. ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/border-experts-want-treaties-with-vietnam-nullified/2889701.html
Anti-dredging activists jailed in Koh Kong
The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Monday imprisoned three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature after a prosecutor charged them with threatening to cause damage during their ongoing campaign against a company accused of illegally dredging at a local estuary, according to rights group Licadho. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-dredging-activists-jailed-in-koh-kong-91880/
Mother nature accused of threatening violence
Activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature caused more than $100,000 in damages to a company that was legally dredging for sand in Koh Kong province, Khem Sameth, CEO of the company Direct Access, said yesterday. ...
Jonathan Cox and Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14651/mother-nature-accused-of-threatening-violence/
Three convicted in UK over Cambodian biofuel scam
A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of Sustainable Agro Energy (SAE); James ...
George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-convicted-in-uk-over-cambodian-biofuel-scam-73778/
Cambodia's garment workers confront multinationals
Since mid-January a group of illegally laid off Cambodian garment workers – mostly women – have been picketing the factory they worked in. Their objective was to stop the company, which closed down, owing the workers, collectively, about US$200,000 of unpaid wages, from removing the ...
Group urges regional bank to press government on NGO law
A group of international NGOs urged the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday to press the government on abandoning its plans for a law regulating the country’s non-governmental groups despite a recent pledge to drop its most controversial provision. “The ADB should convince the Cambodian authorities to ...
Kingdom awaits US trade law
The US House of Representatives has renewed a trade law experts said could have a substantial effect on Cambodia’s exports to the United States, as well as the future of the Kingdom’s manufacturing sector. The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program waived tariffs on about US$13 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011091251593/Business/kingdom-awaits-us-trade-law.html
Assembly Approves 2010 Gov’t Spending
Following a three-hour debate at the National Assembly, lawmakers passed a draft law approving the $2.5 billion the government spent in 2010. During the debate, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap presented a 10-page document that he said justified the $2.5 billion in spending, which was 25 percent ...