Law and judiciary
Kem Sokha officially charged with ‘treason’
Jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha was officially charged with treason this morning, about 36 hours after he was arrested from his Phnom Penh residence in a midnight raid by more than 100 police and sent to a Tbong Khmum prison. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-kem-sokha-officially-charged-treason
Sokha arrested for ‘treason’, is accused of colluding with US to topple the government
Police yesterday arrested Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Kem Sokha over allegations of treason, with Prime Minister Hun Sen accusing the opposition president of conspiring with the United States to oust his regime. In a startling escalation in an already deteriorating political climate, the premier ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-arrested-treason-accused-colluding-us-topple-government
Governor bans heavy trucks
Phnom Penh Governor Khoung Sreng has asked owners of container trucks, cement trucks and other heavily loaded vehicles to cease use of three main roads in the capital in a bid to ease congestion. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081209/governor-bans-heavy-trucks/
CNRP funding investigation launched
The Ministry of Interior has launched an investigation into the opposition CNRP’s funding sources after the government-aligned Fresh News website posted a leaked document purporting to show that the party received funds from a foreign organisation. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080801/cnrp-funding-investigation-launched/
Nine parties face closure
The Interior Ministry has filed a Supreme Court complaint requesting the dissolution of nine political parties accused of flouting their obligations under the Law on Political Parties. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080574/nine-parties-face-closure/
Legal aid budget to rise by half
The government is to give the Bar Association a 50 percent boost in the legal aid budget by 2018 to pay lawyers who defend the poor for free. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080576/legal-aid-budget-rise-half/
Cambodia Daily calls government action ‘assault’ on the press
The Cambodia Daily yesterday said it was under “siege” and continued to call the government’s targeting of the newspaper an attack on press freedom, as five radio station owners that had been ordered to shut stop attempted to resume their services. // // ...
Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-daily-calls-government-action-assault-press
Commercial arbitration body settles its first two cases
The National Commercial Arbitration Center (NCAC) has settled its first two cases, marking the first time in Cambodia for commercial disputes to be resolved using an independent arbitration panel instead of the country’s court system. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commercial-arbitration-body-settles-its-first-two-cases
Changes to make fishing sustainable
A cabinet meeting on Friday amended several articles of the fisheries law to limit the use of narrow fishing nets and introduce licences for some mechanised equipment. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080127/changes-make-fishing-sustainable/
Prison’s out for water festival
Out of 600 prisoners at Kampong Thom prison 18 may have their sentences reduced by six to 12 months for the upcoming Water Festival in November. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079922/prisons-water-festival/
Buses blamed for increase in accidents
President of the department for traffic police Ron Rath Veasna met with private bus companies yesterday to discuss a report indicating that the number of traffic accidents caused by private buses has increased. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079677/buses-blamed-increase-accidents/
Senate passes rule to punish absenteeism
The Senate amended its internal rules yesterday to punish senators who miss sessions by docking their salaries, while also voting down a measure to appoint the wife of Hong Sok Hour to fill his former seat on the body’s anti-corruption committee. ...
Meas Sokchea and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senate-passes-rule-punish-absenteeism
Seven days to move cars from Freedom Park
Owners of all cars for sale around Freedom Park and Chas market have seven days to move them out of the area or face removal of their vehicles by the Daun Penh authority. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079226/seven-days-move-cars-freedom-park/
Cambodia to soon establish juvenile prison: Social Affairs
A sub-decree establishing Cambodia’s first juvenile prison will be issued by the start of September, Minister of Social Affairs Vong Soth told United Nations Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith on Wednesday. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-soon-establish-juvenile-prison-social-affairs
Various wild animal horns confiscated after a raid
Officials from the forestry administration raided a home in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district on Tuesday, confiscating the remains and horns of various endangered animals and making one arrest. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078537/various-wild-animal-horns-confiscated-raid/
Environment Law draft in pipeline
A new Environment and Natural Resources Law is to be submitted to the National Assembly by the end of this year. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078542/environment-law-draft-pipeline/
Activists reject tv boss’s apology for rape remark
Activists rejected an apology on Monday from a prominent television news host for remarks he made that a rapist and murderer should have kept his victim alive to “keep her for using again,” saying he was not genuinely sorry. ...
Julia-grace Sanders and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activists-reject-tv-bosss-apology-for-rape-remark-133628/
A year of ‘hell’ in Prey Sar for Tep Vanny
Tep Vanny stood beside four effigies on a dusky evening last August, marshalling other Boeung Kak residents to light incense sticks, hold lotus stems and throw rice at the four life-size dummies while shouting curses. ...
Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/year-hell-prey-sar-tep-vanny
News anchor draws ire for saying women should ‘not resist’ rape
A local television presenter is facing heavy criticism for an inflammatory on-air suggestion that rape victims should not resist their attackers, and should instead accept sexual assault to avoid being killed – a reference to a brutal rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman in ...
Kong Meta and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/news-anchor-draws-ire-saying-women-should-not-resist-rape
Migrant worker brokers arrested
Police in Pailin province yesterday arrested two suspects accused of brokering illegal passage for migrant workers into Thailand. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077920/migrant-worker-brokers-arrested/
Opposition pushes migrant vote reform
Opposition CNRP lawmakers have suggested amendments to a law which would let Cambodian migrant workers register and vote abroad. The amendments were sent to National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077928/opposition-pushes-migrant-vote-reform/
Kim Sok gets 18 months and must pay $200K in compensation to CPP
Political commentator Kim Sok was sentenced to 18 months in prison this afternoon on charges of incitement and defamation for appearing to suggest that the ruling party was behind the killing of popular analyst Kem Ley. ...
Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kim-sok-gets-18-months-and-must-pay-200k-compensation-cpp
Interior Ministry issues one-window service regulations
The Ministry of Interior has issued new regulations to stamp out corruption at one-window services across the country, where residents go to have public documents certified. The order was signed on Tuesday by Interior Minister Sar Kheng, and is aimed at ensuring quality, transparency and accountability ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077728/interior-ministry-issues-one-window-service-regulations/
Pawn shops face crackdown
Phnom Penh City Hall has set its sights on the many pawn shops in the city, ordering police to check that each shop has proper registration papers. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077494/pawn-shops-face-crackdown/