A soldier speaks yesterday to villagers being evicted from Kratie province’s Chhlong district, the site of a deadly shooting incident on Wednesday. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh PostHundreds of people fled in fear yesterday from the village in Kratie province where a bloody security forces crackdown the previous morning left a 14-year-old girl dead. ..
Workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s SL1 and SL2 factories hold a strike yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh PostAbout 4,000 workers from two garment factories protested in Phnom Penh yesterday for better working conditions – but bosses told them their 7.5 hour working days and free meals meant they had it pretty good...
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station at the base of the Preah Vihear temple in July 2008. Photograph: Reuters/Phnom Penh PostTens of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out of classrooms this month and take jobs working as officials in commune elections, campaigning for which begins today, says the National Election Committee...
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party has been accused of cutting the salaries of national police officers to help fund its political campaign ahead of the country’s commune elections on June 3...
A 26-year-old man was badly burned by acid in Kampong Cham province’s Memot district on Tuesday, in an accident that health workers say highlighted the need for the new acid law to be implemented in its entirety...
Lee Jen Ton (left) and Tsen Chi Shen enter the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh PostTwo Taiwanese men were sentenced yesterday to 27 years in jail and fined 80 million riel (US$20,000) for smuggling heroin out of Cambodia...
Mey Sichan, the 24-year-old maid whose March death led to murder charges for her Malaysian employers, had been cremated after a closed-casket funeral, rights workers and officials said yesterday. ..
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced Touch Muysor, the jailed for-mer municipal director of the Ministry of Interior’s anti-drug department, to an additional three years’ imprisonment for taking a bribe in 2005. ..
A 41-year-old Japanese national was arrested by Siem Reap Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection police yesterday and charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl. ..
One of the journalists on the scene when environmentalist Chut Wutty was gunned down last month appeared in a Koh Kong provincial court yesterday to answer questions about the shooting incident, which also led to the death of military police officer In Rattana...
A married couple and another man were called before a judge yesterday after being charged with clearing protected forest in Koh Kong province’s Kandorl commune...
Major international garment and shoe brands have expressed interest in funding a food program that would feed Cambodian factory workers lunches in an effort to improve health and productivity, a labour advocate said on Wednesday...
Secretary of State for Wales Cheryl Gillan (right) and UK Ambassador to Cambodia Mark Gooding, spoke with reporters yesterday in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Joseph Pocs/Phnom Penh PostThe United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a perman-ent branch in Phnom Penh in the expectation that economic ties between the two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK officials said yesterday...
Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at a business event near Phnom Penh this week. Photograph: Meng Kimlong/Phnom Penh PostPrime Minister Hun Sen’s remarks regarding the guilt of Case 002 former Brother No 2 Nuon Chea “risk being interpreted as an attempt to improperly influence the judges in charge of the case”, judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal said in a decision published yesterday...
ECCC health scareHearings at the Khmer Rouge tribunal were interrupted yesterday when former regime foreign minister Ieng Sary had to be sent to hospital...
Man gets out of jail, steals, returns to jailA 26-year-old man was arrested for stealing a motorcycle in the capital’s Daun Penh district on Tuesday, just days after being released from jail. Police said the suspect had broken into the moto owner’s house to steal it, but was arrested by patrolling police. When questioned, he admitted to the theft and said it was not the first time he had committed such a crime. Rasmey Kampuchea ..
Tourists visit the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple near the Thai-Cambodian border in 2009. Photograph: Reuters/Phnom Penh PostThe number of international tourists visiting Preah Vihear temple increased more than 166 per cent in the first four months of this year compared to the same time last year, tourism officials said yesterday. ..
Crown Holdings, a metal packaging company, said this week it would build a second factory in Cambodia to keep up with the Kingdom’s growing beer industry...
Cambodia's rubber prices declined almost six per cent in the past two weeks, caused by concern over the European crisis with Greece, industry players and Cambodian officials said yesterday...
A soldier speaks yesterday to villagers being evicted from Kratie province’s Chhlong district, the site of a deadly shooting incident on Wednesday. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh PostHundreds of people fled in fear yesterday from the village in Kratie province where a bloody security forces crackdown the previous morning left a 14-year-old girl dead. ..
Workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s SL1 and SL2 factories hold a strike yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh PostAbout 4,000 workers from two garment factories protested in Phnom Penh yesterday for better working conditions – but bosses told them their 7.5 hour working days and free meals meant they had it pretty good...
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station at the base of the Preah Vihear temple in July 2008. Photograph: Reuters/Phnom Penh PostTens of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out of classrooms this month and take jobs working as officials in commune elections, campaigning for which begins today, says the National Election Committee...
Lee Jen Ton (left) and Tsen Chi Shen enter the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh PostTwo Taiwanese men were sentenced yesterday to 27 years in jail and fined 80 million riel (US$20,000) for smuggling heroin out of Cambodia...
Secretary of State for Wales Cheryl Gillan (right) and UK Ambassador to Cambodia Mark Gooding, spoke with reporters yesterday in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Joseph Pocs/Phnom Penh PostThe United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a perman-ent branch in Phnom Penh in the expectation that economic ties between the two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK officials said yesterday...
Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at a business event near Phnom Penh this week. Photograph: Meng Kimlong/Phnom Penh PostPrime Minister Hun Sen’s remarks regarding the guilt of Case 002 former Brother No 2 Nuon Chea “risk being interpreted as an attempt to improperly influence the judges in charge of the case”, judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal said in a decision published yesterday...
Tourists visit the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple near the Thai-Cambodian border in 2009. Photograph: Reuters/Phnom Penh PostThe number of international tourists visiting Preah Vihear temple increased more than 166 per cent in the first four months of this year compared to the same time last year, tourism officials said yesterday. ..
