
Seng Theary Relocated to Preah Vihear Prison
The Cambodian-American lawyer jailed this week amid an opposition mass trial was relocated without the knowledge of her lawyer.
The Cambodian-American lawyer jailed this week amid an opposition mass trial was relocated without the knowledge of her lawyer.
The reporters were purportedly investigating a motorbike seller for selling vehicles without tax certificates.
A Preah Vihear journalist says he is facing arrest after filming a bulldozer clearing state land, though the court says the warrant was issued after the man failed to appear for questioning four times.
Two Cambodia Reform Party commune-election candidates have withdrawn their bids after a village security guard warned them to “be careful” and told them authorities would treat them as immigrants and stall paperwork, a party member said.
In a monologue debating against unnamed analysts, Prime Minister Hun Sen dismissed criticisms that Cambodia was not fully at peace due to ongoing social injustices.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng refrained from naming specific ministries when he criticized them for allowing large imports of drug precursors, pointing to a recent 100-ton bust.
Kem Sokha’s comments stirred a flurry of speculation and commentary online, with armchair political analysts in and outside the country trying to make sense of what this meant for the CNRP — once the most credible political threat to the CPP’s stranglehold on power.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday he would deal with “extremists” – a thinly-veiled reference to the CNRP – before considering handing over power to the “younger generation.”
In a rejection of a provincial leader’s push for hardline monitoring of journalists, the head of the Ministry of Information this week denounced the arbitrary detention of two reporters and urged authorities to more closely cooperate with media workers.
Kem Sokha has been looking to sell his Phnom Penh villa since 2020, said a close colleague, with plans to move to the city’s outskirts or to a different province.
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