Law and judiciary

Ministry of Justice officials held a meeting with other ministries on May 4 to discuss four areas of government reform, including public finance, public administration, sub-national administration and justice. ...

Five Bunong indigenous people were summoned by Mondulkiri provincial police to testify on May 3 about a minor criminal complaint filed by a citizen who claimed the accused had built illegal structures on private property ...

Police in Phnom Penh on Tuesday arrested a Cambodian man and 13 Chinese nationals for violating the government’s curfew and lockdown measures by travelling without permission. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen today ordered Justice Minister Koeut Rith to push for the enforcement of law on measure to combat COVID-19 and work with the court officials to establish a court to put quarantine violators on trial, as the Kingdom is facing an alarming ...

The National and International Co-Investigating Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) yesterday issued a split conclusion today in Case 003 of former Khmer Rouge navy commander Meas Muth, leaving the case in limbo. ...

A technical working group in Koh Kong province is inspecting state land in Sre Ambel district’s Chroy Svay and Boeung Preav communes on suspicions of illegal land grabbing in the biodiversity corridor and multi-use areas.   ...

The Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday ordered an 8pm to 5am curfew across the capital for two weeks with immediate effect. ...

Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district administration is investigating a land dispute in Phnom Tbeng II commune’s Kdak village after a provincial court deputy prosecutor, Vuth Savy, was beaten while leading a force to stop forest encroachment in the area on March 24. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 31 issued a sub-decree detailing administrative measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, including potential travel restrictions, public gathering, curfew, and lockdown to certain areas, among others.   ...

The much-anticipated Inclusive Business Enabling Environment for Cambodia (IbeeC) strategy will be adopted soon to meet the needs of 1.7 million poor and low-income Cambodians by 2023, a wide-ranging virtual meeting conducted by the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation heard on March 18. ...

The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) will work with Cambodia National Council for Women to provide legal defence services and train enforcement officials in relevant laws. ...

Four men were charged in the Preah Vihear Provincial Court for impersonating as environment officers, clearing 10 hectares of state land, and claiming it belongs to them. ...

The newly-renamed Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) and its nine capital-market-regulator counterparts in ASEAN on March 15 signed a new five-year Action Plan 2021-2025 for the development of the sector. ...

The Mondulkiri Provincial Court has charged three members of an indigenous community in Laoka village of Sen Monorom town’s Sokdum commune with aggravated intentional damage and violence against a real estate agent and ordered them to appear at the court once a month. ...

Environment officials are preparing to send three suspects to the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court after arresting them on March 13 in connection with encroachment on state forest land in the multi-use areas of Prek Teuk Sap Kbal Chhay in Prey Nop district. ...

The Koh Kong Provincial Administration has instructed Botum Sakor district authorities to collect the names of the 131 families affected by Sinomexim Investment Co Ltd in Andong Teuk commune and identify those who have sold land to traders in order to compile the basic information ...

The Law on measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other deadly infectious diseases was promulgated on Mar. 11. .. ...

The Council of Ministers has approved the draft Law on Measures to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 amid the community outbreak. ...

Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) vice-president Chin Malin said civic space in Cambodia is not shrinking. Instead, it is widely open, but those who enjoy civic space must respect the constitution and the law. ...

Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) have called on the government’s working group to speed up its internal discussion on the draft amendments to the Law on Association and Non-governmental Organisations (Lango). ...