Laws and regulations

Police in Kratie province on Sunday arrested a farmer—accused of trying to squat on a new social land concession for poor families—after he allegedly struck the officers when they arrived to tell him and his wife to leave. ...

During his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday, a former commune chief in Prek Pnov district admitted to organizing the murder of a political rival, who survived the subsequent grenade attack that claimed the life of his 11-year-old son. ...

Meach Sovannara, lead spokesman for the opposition, threatened to play the American card if the Municipal Court does not drop its investigation of him for his role in violent protests at Freedom Park last year. ...

A security guard hired by the Union Development Group, a Chinese firm building a $3.8-billion tourist mecca in a remote coastal area of Koh Kong province, was on Monday handed a one-year suspended sentence for punching a local woman in the face last year, according ...

Svay Rieng provincial authorities refused to take responsibility Monday for a group of thugs armed with wooden clubs who worked together with police and soldiers on Sunday to prevent a group of nationalist activists from visiting a post demarcating the eastern border with Vietnam. ...

How should one react when accused in court of defaming a provincial judge and prosecutor? Ny Chakrya just laughs. ...

Every day Dr. Chhor Nareth treats injuries caused by the anarchy on Cambodia’s roads, where few drivers wear helmets, traffic lights are routinely ignored, and driving on the wrong side of the road is common. He has worked in the emergency Intensive Care Unit at ...

Authorities in Phnom Penh arrested and released five activists on Saturday for handing out leaflets urging residents to “Say No” to a pending NGO law that critics fear will be used to muzzle critics of the ruling CPP. ...

Life as a street vendor begins as early as 4 o’clock every morning. As soon as dawn breaks, business hours begin for vendors in Kilometer 4 Market. ...

Foreigners who join protests against the government will now be subject to arrest and deportation, Phnom Penh’s governor and the government’s spokesman said yesterday, in the latest effort by the CPP to curb outside influence in the country’s political affairs. ...

The contentious law on associations and NGOs will likely pass the Senate this week, after it is reviewed tomorrow and Wednesday opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) senator Kong Korm said yesterday. ...

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. ...

Two men were arrested in Kompong Thom province on Tuesday after they drove their car to obstruct a team of officials in pursuit of a vehicle suspected of transporting illegally harvested luxury timber through Stung Sen City, police said. ...

Kampot expats met with municipal authorities and police officials this week to discuss their growing fears over theft and robbery in the picturesque riverside community. ...

Sok Khemarin, the police official leading the investigation into Sok Bun, said Wednesday that he was waiting on an arrest warrant so that he could call on the assistance of Interpol and deflected suggestions of police collusion with the disgraced real-estate magnate, who remains at ...

Authorities in Banteay Meanchey province seized more than $10,000 worth of illegal fertilizer from a government official and his brother on Tuesday, while the accused claimed they were targeted because the official who led the sting had family ties to the fertilizer trade. ...

The trial of 11 men arrested on insurrection charges after an anti-government protest turned into a brawl in 2014, continued Tuesday, with four of the security guards who were allegedly beaten giving testimony for the first time. ...

A draft of Cambodia’s first alcohol law—which if passed would introduce a drinking age of 21 and ban the sale of alcohol between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m.—will be sent to the Council of Ministers by the end of the week, Health Minister Mam Bunheng ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday began questioning a leading human rights campaigner who stands accused of defaming and attempting to coerce two judicial officials over a land dispute in Siem Reap province. ...

Authorities are searching for an Interior Ministry official who owns a three-story video arcade in Phnom Penh that was used as a drug den before police raided the establishment over the weekend and arrested dozens of people, an official said Monday. ...

Police in Kandal province are seeking to arrest three men after footage emerged last week of them running through a Vietnamese graveyard in Sa’ang district damaging headstones. ...

Police are searching for a 26-year-old unlicensed dentist in Tbong Khmum province who is believed to have used a rope to strangle a patient to death at his clinic in order to steal her jewelry and motorbike, along with about $3,000 in cash, an official ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted a Chinese man and three Cambodians of human trafficking over an attempt to send three Cambodian women to China as brides. ...

The CPP’s 68 lawmakers pushed a controversial NGO law through the National Assembly on Monday morning without debate and without the opposition CNRP, whose 55 members boycotted the session in protest over legislation they say the government could use to stifle dissent. ...