Law and judiciary
Teachers push for higher wages, rural schools with books
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.” ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16536/teachers-push-for-higher-wages--rural-schools-with-books/
Nine Vietnamese montagnards fear deportation by Cambodian authorities
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. ...
South Korean wanted by Interpol apprehended in Sihanoukville
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. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korean-wanted-by-interpol-apprehended-in-sihanoukville-96371/
Seven released over selling factory goods to pay wages
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. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/seven-released-over-selling-factory-goods-to-pay-wages-96369/
Senator says he found fake treaty online
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 ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/senator-says-he-found-fake-treaty-online-96336/
ASEAN integration will prompt ‘flood of migrants’
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. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16497/asean-integration-will-prompt----flood-of-migrants---/
Successful drug raid nabs 3 as arrests continue to increase
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, ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/successful-drug-raid-nabs-3-as-arrests-continue-to-increase-96373/
Cambodian police arrest 3,402 drug suspects
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. ...
Business Standard News Staff
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/cambodian-police-arrest-3-402-drug-suspects-115100300348_1.html
Court denies bail release of detained opposition senator
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 ...
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/court-denies-bail-release-of-detained-opposition-senator/2988815.html
Court hears $2.5m land concession fraud case
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. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-hears-2-5m-land-concession-fraud-case-96181/
Pharmacy shut down after man dies upon taking supplement
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. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pharmacy-shut-down-after-man-dies-upon-taking-supplement-96189/
Life on the farm at CC4
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 ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-farm-cc4
CRF unveils penalties for cheating rice exporters
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. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/crf-unveils-penalties-for-cheating-rice-exporters-96200/
Three arrested over murder of garment worker
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. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-arrested-over-murder-of-garment-worker-96033/
Ministry calls for action on illegal police plates
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. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-calls-for-action-on-illegal-police-plates-96041/
Two arrested along new drug route in Pursat
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. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-arrested-along-new-drug-route-in-pursat-96052/
CPP to push ahead with new commune election law
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. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-to-push-ahead-with-new-commune-election-law-96044/
Road deaths up almost 15%
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 ...
Pech Sotheary and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-deaths-almost-15
Labor law violators to face stiffer daily fines
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. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-law-violators-to-face-stiffer-daily-fines-96054/
Cambodia blocks outside doctors from treating jailed opposition senator
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. ...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/doctors-09302015160023.html
Lawyer calls for leniency for trafficking suspects
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. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lawyer-calls-for-leniency-for-trafficking-suspects-95953/
Cambodia aims to reduce Dollarization
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. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16274/cambodia-aims-to-reduce-dollarization/
Police search for clues about dead foreigner
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 ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-search-for-clues-about-dead-foreigner-95973/
Don’t worry, Gov’t tells net users
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. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16313/don---t-worry--gov---t-tells-net-users/