Police have summoned three Phnom Penh internet users over comments they left while watching live broadcasts of firefighters, including suggesting they were slow to put out fires due to corruption.
Members of the public who have experienced corruption at the hands of officials at the Anti-Corruption Unit are encouraged to provide further information to the unit after it sent one of its staff members to court.
Two land disputants in Preah Sihanouk have been arrested and charged with violence and obstructing public officials over a clash that took place in February last year.
Five Banteay Meanchey farmers appealed their five-year prison sentences over encroachment of nearly 2,000 hectares at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, though major elements of the case remained unclear even during the appeal.
Despite receiving life sentences, local businessman Thong Sarath and four associates had murder charges dropped by the Appeal Court in 2020, according to proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
An Interior Ministry official said Cambodia was studying foreign interference laws, pointing to Cham invasions of ancient Cambodia, while a human rights advocate worried about “color revolution” labels.
Speculation has been rife about whether the resumption of Sokha’s trial — nearly two years after it was stopped due to Covid-19 — signaled an imminent political deal that could see the former CNRP president return to politics.
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s controversy-inducing Asean chairmanship continued Friday morning as he called the Malaysian foreign minister “arrogant” for making inappropriate remarks about him as an Asean leader.
The filling of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake is continuing briskly as the government allocated more landfill plots to people close to government and military leaders.
The Bunong community is asking high-profile online cosmetics and jewelry seller Try Dana to visit them and join a traditional ceremony as an apology after Dana publicly disparaged her violent husband as “Bunong.”
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