Law and judiciary

Teachers are demanding that their salaries be raised to 1.5 million riel (about $270) per month next year, and are warning the government that if this does not happen, they will continue protesting “like a headache that will not go away.”  ...

Nine Vietnamese Montagnards who are seeking the protection of the United Nations refugee office in Cambodia’s capital said Monday that they fled their homeland last month because of political persecution, and expressed concern about possible deportation by Cambodian authorities. ...

A South Korean fugitive who is wanted by Interpol in connection with extortion in South Korea was arrested on Friday in Preah Sihanouk province, police said Sunday. ...

Seven people who were arrested last week for attempting to sell merchandise from a factory in Kompong Speu province were released on Friday, officials said, with factory owners paying more than 100 workers part of the wages they were owed. ...

On the first day of his trial on Friday, opposition senator Hong Sok Hour—who was charged with forgery and incitement in August for posting a video to Facebook that showed a fake border treaty with Vietnam—denied having fabricated the document, saying that he found it ...

A senior investigator at rights group Adhoc has warned that regional economic integration will lead to a flood of Cambodians migrating elsewhere in search of jobs that pay better than those at home. ...

Police arrested three people and confiscated about 1 kg of methamphetamine pills in a raid in Kompong Chhnang province on Saturday afternoon, the latest case in a year that has seen nearly three times as many meth busts as in the same period last year, ...

The number of people arrested for drug-related crimes in Cambodia has increased by 153 percent in the first nine months of 2015, a senior police official said on Saturday. ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected an appeal from an opposition senator to be released from trial detention on bail. At least 10 other activists and supporters of the Rescue Party have been similarly arrested, charged and detained in recent months, as the two sides ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday heard the case of an agribusiness owner who accused a broker of defrauding him of $2.5 million after failing to process documents that would allow him to develop a land concession in Mondolkiri province. ...

An unlicensed pharmacy in Siem Reap City that sold a traditional Chinese nutritional supplement the manufacturer claims can treat “100 diseases” was shut down on Wednesday after a 72-year-old man died after taking a dose, officials said Thursday. ...

A remote jail opened more than five years ago to lessen chronic overcrowding in the prison system is also operating as a farming business, where free labour is seemingly used to yield big profits for senior staff.When Correctional Centre 4 (CC4) opened its gates in ...

The Cambodia Rice Federation on Wednesday announced strict penalties for exporters who mix Cambodian rice with low-quality rice from other countries after receiving complaints that some exporters have been using the method to increase profits. ...

Three garment workers were arrested in Phnom Penh over the past two days for their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of their colleague at his home on Monday night, officials said Wednesday.   ...

The Interior Ministry on Wednesday released a statement directing authorities to clamp down on the unlawful use of police license plates because drivers have been using them as an excuse to commit traffic crimes and avoid paying taxes. ...

A kilogram of methamphetamine was confiscated and two men were apprehended in Pursat province on Tuesday by police who said the arrests had uncovered a new drug supply route in the country. ...

The National Assembly will vote on an amended law governing commune elections on October 20 even if the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP do not forge a deal over the parts of the law they disagree on, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Wednesday. ...

A national road safety action plan established in 2011 is severely off target and road deaths could surpass 3,200 by 2020 unless drastic action is taken, the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC) warned yesterday.In total, 2,226 people were killed in 4,645 recorded traffic accidents in ...

Companies that violate the Labor Law will now face a five-fold increase in fines following a new order from the justice and labor ministries intended to encourage more compliance. ...

Cambodian authorities are refusing to allow doctors from the human rights group Licadho to visit a jailed opposition lawmaker held at Prey Sar prison in the capital Phnom Penh, claiming the facility already provides adequate care, sources said. ...

A lawyer for six women accused of trafficking young women to China conceded his clients’ guilt during their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday but asked for leniency because of their modest education. ...

Cambodia has designed strategies to give the Riel  a boost  to reduce dollarization, which represents about 80 percent of currencies circulated in the country, the Central Bank’s senior officials said Tuesday.   ...

Police in Kep province on Tuesday contacted authorities in Phnom Penh and all 23 other provinces in their attempt to identify a Caucasian man whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase floating in an inlet on Monday, but came no closer to solving the ...

The government yesterday moved to reassure Internet users and NGOs fearful of a censorship crackdown after plans to implement new controls to combat cybercrime and the abuse of social media. ...