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Boeung Tamok community members gather near an excavator after protesting against the dumping of contaminants in their fishing area, as that area has been filled in with soil to form a new road on November 7, 2023. (CamboJA/ Sovann Sreypich)

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Land Disputants Doubtful That New Government Authority Will Bring Justice

10 Nov 2023 5:18 PM|
Phon Sothyroth|

Locals from some communities with ongoing land disputes are not optimistic about the government's new out-of-court dispute resolution authority. Prime Minister Hun Manet announced last month that the government body could resolve civil matters more quickly than Cambodia’s courts, but land disputants are wary of a system carried out by local authorities they already don’t trust.

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Khmer Rouge senior leader Nuon Chea dies in hospital

5 Aug 2019 3:32 PM|

Former senior Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, died in hospital yesterday. Neth Pheaktra, spokesman for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), said that Chea died yesterday evening at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital where he had been hospitalized last month.

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Wife pleads for Photoshopping activist’s release

2 Aug 2019 11:47 AM|

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged a former CNRP activist with incitement to discriminate and incitement to commit a felony and placed him in provisional detention. Kuch Kimlong, spokesman of the municipal court, said May Hong Srieng, 40, was charged with two counts incitement.

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Three Pursat officials charged with corruption

1 Aug 2019 11:11 AM|

A Pursat provincial land management director and his two subordinates were charged in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday for taking bribes to issue construction permits. Kuch Kimlong, spokesman of the municipal court, confirmed that prosecutors charged the department’s director, Liem Bunroeun; deputy Cheang Vuthy; and department official Te Buntheng with misappropriation of public funds.

Heng Sros rides his motorbike across Mondulkiri province.

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Environmentalists question whether crackdown will reach illegal logging’s roots

31 Jul 2019 4:34 PM|

Heng Sros rides his motorbike across Mondulkiri province, through the Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, to the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary, and finally into the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary. Sros, an activist for the Cambodia Human Rights Task Force, hasn’t let up on his investigations on illegal logging, though he says his findings are consistently ignored by authorities.

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Nine ‘Obama’ club drug suspects sent to court

31 Jul 2019 2:55 PM|

The Preah Sihanouk provincial police sent nine Chinese nationals to the provincial court on Monday for alleged involvement in illicit drug distribution at the Obama nightclub in Sihanoukville. Police officials in Preah Sihanouk province raided the Obama nightclub on July 25 and arrested more than 100 Chinese and Cambodian club-goers suspected of drug use, possession, distributing, trafficking and provide a place for drug use.

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Cambodia’s construction sector remained strong

31 Jul 2019 2:20 PM|

Cambodia’s construction sector remained strong during the first four months of this year following a nearly 20 per cent drop last year, according to Ministry…

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Cargo traffic through the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port rose 16 percent

31 Jul 2019 2:18 PM|

In the first quarter of this year, cargo traffic through the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port rose 16 per cent year-on-year, according to Minister of Public Works…