Law and judiciary
Legal and judicial system
Environment officials deny forest crimes
A letter sent to authorities in Siem Reap province on Monday by nine park rangers accusing two senior environment officials of involvement in illegally cutting down six trees for profit was dismissed as a lie by one of the accused yesterday, who instead insisted it ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28636/environment-officials-deny-forest-crimes/
Business disputants file case for arbitration
The National Commercial Arbitration Centre (NCAC) received its latest case last week, marking just the third time that a commercial dispute has been brought to the independent dispute resolution body, its president said yesterday. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/business-disputants-file-case-arbitration
Rattanakiri court to hear logging case
The Rattanakiri provincial court will hear a case against provincial officials brought by rights group Adhoc on Wednesday, which accuses them of failing to prevent illegal logging in Lumphat district. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28335/rattanakiri-court-to-hear-logging-case/
Peacekeeper injured in S. Sudan
A United Nations peacekeeper from Cambodia was injured in gunfire on Sunday in Juba, South Sudan, according to the Cambodian National Center of Peacekeeping Forces. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27219/peacekeeper-injured-in-s--sudan/
Mining companies told to comply
Only a few days after the Koh Kong Provincial Court found three environmental activists guilty for protesting against a sand dredging company, the Ministry of Energy and Mines has called for greater civilian participation in protecting The Kingdom’s natural resources. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26950/mining-companies-told-to-comply/
Cambodia and Myanmar in joint stand on South China Sea dispute
Cambodia and Myanmar have reiterated their support for a peaceful solution to the territorial disputes involving China and several Asean countries in the South China Sea after a meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Myanmar’s newly appointed ambassador to Cambodia. ...
Arbitration body gets its second commercial case
The National Commercial Arbitration Centre (NCAC) has received its second case since becoming fully operational in early 2014 – and has a lot riding on resolving the commercial dispute, its president said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/arbitration-body-gets-its-second-commercial-case
Minister: hands-off judiciary
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana has never interfered in a judicial decision, he said during a speech in front of a half-vacant National Assembly yesterday. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25993/minister--hands-off-judiciary/
Official pleads self-defense in murder trial
An Interior Ministry official who fatally shot a Phnom Penh village chief, his son and grandson during a bloodbath provoked by a petty financial dispute pleaded self-defense during his trial on Wednesday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-pleads-self-defense-in-murder-trial-113116/
Boeung Kak residents testify on assault
Five of the 11 members of the Boeung Kak lake community who were beaten by police while peacefully protesting at Wat Phnom in 2013 and later filed a lawsuit against district officials were called to testify at the Ministry of Interior yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25408/boeung-kak-residents-testify-on-assault/
Development council officer charged over bribery claim
An official at the Council for the Development of Cambodia was charged with bribery over the weekend after being arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), just weeks after the graft-fighting body arrested a Foreign Affairs Ministry official and the ambassador to South Korea. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/development-council-officer-charged-over-bribery-claim-112324/
Government says lawmakers must respect court summons
The Justice Ministry on Thursday rejected the opposition CNRP’s argument for refusing to be questioned by prosecutors over party Vice President Kem Sokha’s sex scandal, calling its claims of unconstitutional behavior “slander.” ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-lawmakers-must-respect-court-summons-112226/
EU calls for release of officials
The European Union (EU) has called on the government to release the Adhoc, National Election Committee and United Nations officials who have been charged and imprisoned over the sex scandal involving acting opposition party president Kem Sokha. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24681/eu-calls-for-release-of-officials/
Cambodia refutes new East Sea-related agreement with China
Cambodia does not have any new agreements regarding the South China Sea (East Sea) issue with China, the country’s Secretary of State and Spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay Siphan, has said. ...
Vietnam News Team
http://vietnamnews.vn/world/296040/cambodia-refutes-new-east-sea-related-agreement-with-china.html
Date set for Rainsy’s latest defamation trial
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who is living in France to avoid prison time, will be tried over allegations of defaming National Assembly President Heng Samrin starting July 28, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has announced. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/date-set-for-defamation-trial-111814/
Adhoc on defensive after accusations
Rights group Adhoc has no plans to file a complaint against Khom Chandaraty, the alleged mistress of acting opposition president Kem Sokha, despite her accusing various members of encouraging her to give false testimony during police questioning earlier this month. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24261/adhoc-on-defensive-after-accusations/
China's pact with Cambodia, Laos an interference in ASEAN's domestic affairs: Former Sec-Gen
The recent move by Cambodia and Laos to make a pact with China on how to settle the South China Sea dispute amounted to them interfering with the domestic affairs of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), said former ASEAN Secretary-General Ong Keng ...
Saifulbahri Ismail
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-s-pact-with/2729132.html
NGOs targeted over mistress’ lies
Police will investigate a number of NGO workers who government officials say were involved in the false testimony of Khom Chandaraty, the alleged mistress of opposition acting president Khem Sokha, after Ms. Chandaraty published an open letter accusing the officials of encouraging her to lie ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24168/ngos-targeted-over-mistress----lies/
Labor ministry sues union officials
Labor Ministry officials have filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing four union officials of public defamation, insulting public officers and blocking public roads. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24037/labor-ministry-sues-union-officials/
Cambodian opposition lawmaker arrested for border comments
Prominent opposition lawmaker Um Sam An was arrested late Sunday in Siem Reap province for comments he made about the border with Vietnam, a government spokesman said Monday. ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-opposition-lawmaker-arrest-border-comments/3280305.html
Court charges five over massive market fire
The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Monday charged a goldsmith, three security guards and the manager of a market in Stung Treng City for negligence that contributed to the outbreak of a fire that gutted the market on Thursday, causing an estimated $1 million in ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-five-over-massive-market-fire-111214/
Hun Manet sued in US for torture, terrorism
Imprisoned CNRP official Meach Sovannara has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, and the Cambodian government, accusing them of “terrorism” and “torture through arbitrary, extra-legal, and long-term detention.” ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-manet-sued-in-us-for-torture-terrorism-111204/
In blow for immunity, lawmaker arrested
Demolishing the constitutional protection forbidding the arrest of lawmakers without National Assembly consent, police apprehended opposition lawmaker Um Sam An early Monday morning in Siem Reap City over his advocacy against Vietnamese border intrusions. ...
Aun Pheap and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-blow-for-immunity-lawmaker-arrested-111206/
General to be questioned over defamatory remarks
A two-star general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) will be questioned by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today for allegedly making defamatory remarks about a superior officer’s wife relating to land seizures in Siem Reap province, according to court officials. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23806/general-to-be-questioned-over-defamatory-remarks/