More than 400 investors in GoldFX — a troubled investment firm linked to ruling party scions — last week accepted a deal to recover 30% of the money they lost, a company lawyer said.
Former Free Trade Union president Chea Mony has thrown his support behind the Candlelight Party and wants the union movement to reengage with politics.
Police briefly arrested three union representatives amid a demonstration of more than 1,000 shoe-factory workers in Kampong Chhnang, saying workers should be only allowed to submit letters, not protest.
Tens of thousands of voters will enter polling booths on June 5 to vote on a ballot with only one party to choose from: In 24 communes, including eight in Phnom Penh, the ruling CPP is the only available choice.
The Kampong Cham provincial election committee fined Candlelight Party commune-chief candidate Kung Raiya around $1,250 for insulting the competition, but he was cleared over distributing money to colleagues, an NEC spokesman said.
A monk in Siem Reap province alleges he was ordered to leave his pagoda Saturday night because he showed support for the opposition Candlelight Party.
Five Indonesian men stood trial on Friday over charges of drug possession, illegal confinement and torture amid a period of instability within an online gaming business that connected the group.
The secretary-general of Cambodia’s National Olympic Committee said the country’s athletes competed in 33 categories and medaled in 15.
If the Cambodia Reform Party were to win commune positions, it would work to empower the grassroots and ensure there is no corruption in the delivery of public services, said party founder Ou Chanrath. He had to contest this election because an uncontested ballot risked turning Cambodia into a “second China,” he said.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court acquitted the publisher of the Khmer Times newspaper of sexual harassment charges Monday afternoon, in a case relating to accusations of sexual advances made to a former employee.
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