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    Six months on, no justice for shootings

    Six months ago today, security forces opened fire on garment workers protesting for a doubling of their minimum wage on Phnom Penh’s factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard. At least five people were killed in what rights groups called the worst state violence against citizens in 15 ...

    Vong Sokheng and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/six-months-no-justice-shootings

    Vendors with a licence to forge

    On the side of a well-trafficked street in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, a man with a razor blade bends over a small rectangle of sheet metal overlaid with a vinyl stencil. As letters and numbers are lifted away, the plate begins to take on a ...

    Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vendors-licence-forge

    National Police planning to establish its own newspaper

    The Ministry of Interior’s National Police plans to establish its own Khmer-language newspaper to provide the public, for a fee, with accurate information on security and crime in Cambodia and to promote awareness about traffic laws and the dangers of drugs, the National Police spokesman ...

    Aun Pheap
    http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-police-planning-to-establish-its-own-newspaper-60701/

    Teenager charged for hacking government site

    A 17-year-old high school student was charged Wednesday after he confessed to hacking a government website and creating a Facebook page on which he encouraged people to attack government websites as well as the websites of pro-government groups, officials confirmed, though the exact charges are ...

    Eang Mengleng and Joshua Wilwohl
    http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenager-charged-for-hacking-government-site-60512/

    Three provincial police chiefs shuffle jobs

    Three provincial police chiefs will move into different jobs over the next three days due to their retirement or election to council positions, a police official said Tuesday. Kompong Chhnang provincial police chief Brigadier General Ath Khem will be replaced by his deputy, Brigadier General Prak ...

    Saing Soenthrith
    http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-provincial-police-chiefs-shuffle-jobs-59237/

    Arrest in UN murder

    Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith ...

    Vong Sokheng
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrest-un-murder

    Stolen Buddha urn reclaimed

    Authorities say they have recovered a priceless gold urn believed to contain the ashes of the Buddha from a house in Takeo province’s Traing district. Kandal provincial police chief Eav Chamroeun said officers arrested two suspects yesterday, in the process seizing back the urn, along with ...

    Chhay Channyda, Shane Worrell and Sen David
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buddha-urn-found-police

    Ministry to ‘examine’ probe results

    Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ...

    Meas Sokchea
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-%E2%80%98examine%E2%80%99-probe-results

    Ministry to ‘examine’ probe results

    Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ...

    Meas Sokchea
    http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-%E2%80%98examine%E2%80%99-probe-results

    Still at Large, Chhouk Bundith Has Case Sent to Appeal Court

    Although the Svay Rieng Provincial Court announced the ex-governor’s sentence in June and ordered his immediate arrest, he has remained elusive to the authorities. His lawyers filed an appeal in July to the Appeal Court challenging the provincial court’s verdict. Sun Bunnarith, Chhouk Bundith’s lawyer, claimed ...

    Khy Sovuthy and Dene-Hern Chen
    http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-at-large-chhouk-bundith-has-case-sent-to-appeal-court-40914/

    Pay Off Officials, Risk Prison Stint, New Law Says

    The government has brought into force a new law that makes all illegal payments to officials punishable by up to 15 years in jail for those who accept such payments and up to 10 years for those who make payments. Im Oudom, a member of ...

    http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily

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