Tobacco giant quits industry group over packaging dispute
The local arm of tobacco giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which makes Camel, Winston and Mevius cigarettes, has blasted the Association of the Tobacco Industry of Cambodia (ATIC) for failing to ensure its members adhere to new regulations mandating graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tobacco-giant-quits-industry-group-over-packaging-dispute-116040/
Government launches framework for livestock law
After eight years in the works, the Agriculture Ministry on Monday circulated the framework for Cambodia’s first law regulating the quality of domestic and imported meat products and livestock. ...
Aun Pheap and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-launches-framework-for-livestock-law-116161/
Cop duo sentenced to 10 years in meth bust
Four people – two of them police officers – were sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday for selling nearly a kilogram of methamphetamine to an undercover police officer in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district earlier this year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cop-duo-sentenced-10-years-meth-bust
More than 100 prisoners in Cambodia receive royal pardons for Water Festival
More than 100 prisoners in Cambodia have received royal pardons and hundreds more have seen their sentences reduced under King Norodom Sihamoni’s traditional Water Festival clemency, a local English newspaper reported Wednesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-11/25/c_134852762.htm
New traffic law hurts the poor, citizens say
The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements. ...
Mom Kunthear and Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19443/new-traffic-law-hurts-the-poor--citizens-say/
Consulting Facebook, PM changes traffic law
Despite starting with a bang just a week ago, the Land Traffic Law has already been subject to two amendments from Prime Minister Hun Sen in direct response to a public outcry on Facebook, a stark contrast to the premier’s usual attitude toward online criticism. ...
Kuch Naren and Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/consulting-facebook-pm-changes-traffic-law-104778/
Gov’t plans for traffic law enforcement by mid-March
The oft-delayed and amended traffic law is scheduled to take effect in mid-March after being postponed since January due to widespread complaints from citizens across the country. Although the law won’t take effect until mid-March, police are still checking vehicle documents, and are looking out ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20150/gov---t-plans-for-traffic-law-enforcement-by-mid-march/
Gov’t ‘clarifies’ alleged rights abuses for IPU
A delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) – a transnational organisation of lawmakers – met with lawmakers, several ministries and the UNHCR over the past two days to discuss concerns about the beating of two opposition lawmakers last October as well as the jailing of ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-clarifies-alleged-rights-abuses-ipu
Van driver dead, garment workers injured in highway crash
A high-speed collision in Preah Sihanouk province involving two container trucks, a beer truck and a van crammed with garment workers resulted in one death and 34 injuries on Tuesday evening, according to police, who reported that three drivers fled the scene and remain at ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/van-driver-dead-garment-workers-injured-in-highway-crash-109345/
Traffic law crackdown starts Tuesday
The National Committee for Road Traffic Safety announced that from Tuesday, traffic police will start intensifying their enforcement of the recently implemented traffic law after a two-month test period showed positive results. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22700/traffic-law-crackdown-starts-tuesday/
Australian gaming company probed for Cambodia payment
Australian gaming firm Tabcorp on Tuesday confirmed that it was under investigation by Australian police over a possible bribe it paid in 2009 to a Cambodian consultancy connected to a sister of Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australian-gaming-company-probed-for-cambodia-payment-109949/
Authorities clear furniture from Sihanoukville beach—again
Outdoor tables and chairs belonging to bars and restaurants on Sihanoukville’s Serendipity Beach were removed by local authorities on Tuesday as part of a campaign to beautify the city’s beaches by ridding them of illegal commercial activity, an official said on Wednesday. ...
Peter Ford and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-clear-furniture-from-sihanoukville-beach-again-111301/
UN, Adhoc staff charged over sex scandal
Four senior officers from local rights group Adhoc and a former officer who now works for the National Election Committee (NEC) were imprisoned on Monday on bribery charges over a sex scandal involving deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha. ...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-adhoc-staff-charged-over-sex-scandal-112053/
Prime minister bans color-coordinated demonstrations
The potential for color to serve as a rallying point for a political insurrection has not been lost on Prime Minister Hun Sen over the years, with the premier repeatedly inveighing against Eastern European-style “color revolutions.” ...
Kuch Naren and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-bans-color-coordinated-demonstrations-112434/
Draft of whistleblower law due in July: ACU
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will unveil the first draft of its long-awaited whistleblower protection law next month, according to minutes of a May 30 meeting between the ACU and the National Council Against Corruption published on the unit’s website, but observers are not holding their ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/draft-whistleblower-law-due-july-acu
Three men jailed for swindling hundreds in land scheme
Three men were charged with fraud in Kratie province on Wednesday after they were arrested for convincing more than 400 people from four provinces to give them money to secure pieces of land, police said Thursday. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-men-jailed-for-swindling-hundreds-in-land-scheme-94694/
Consul’s trial concludes
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday concluded the trial of a former consular official with the Foreign Ministry accused of falsifying government documents to facilitate the sale of millions of dollars’ worth of luxury timber to Vietnam when he was stationed in Ho Chi Minh ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/consuls-trial-concludes
Cambodia denies Sam Rainsy arrest warrant was politically motivated
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Thursday dismissed claims that a court decision to issue an arrest warrant for Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy was politically motivated and said his lawyer had acted alone in pursuing a defamation case against the opposition ...
Thai Tha
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/warrant-11192015170611.html
Foreign minister says Cambodia’s judiciary is fair
Cambodia’s foreign minister defended the country’s judiciary before a group of diplomats Thursday, addressing an arrest warrant issued last week for opposition leader Sam Rainsy. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-minister-says-cambodia-judiciary-is-fair/3065440.html
Police burn 45,000 marijuana plants in public forest
Police burned nearly 45,000 marijuana plants growing on public forest land in Takeo province on Tuesday and Wednesday after they were tipped off by local villagers, police said Thursday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/109415-109415/