Hun Sen Threatens Legal Action Against Health Rumormongering
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned today that he would take legal action against anyone who exaggerates his health woes.
Nhim Sokhorn Jul 12, 2:29 pm
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Prime Minister Hun Sen warned today that he would take legal action against anyone who exaggerates his health woes.
About 100 police and military police officers descended on Phnom Penh’s inner-city Caltex gas station this morning, arresting three men trying to place flowers at the site where popular political commentator Kem Ley was gunned down three years ago and dispersing any attempts to commemorate the murder.
About 100 police and military police officers descended on Phnom Penh’s inner-city Caltex gas station this morning, arresting three men trying to place flowers at the site where popular political commentator Kem Ley was gunned down three years ago and dispersing any attempts to commemorate the murder.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has scheduled a July 26 hearing as the first day in the trial of two Radio Free Asia reporters arrested two years ago over accusations of espionage.
In the wake of Saturday’s fatal collapse of a Chinese-owned building in Sihanoukville, Prime Minister Hun Sen warned against using the tragedy to single out and attack the recent influx of investment from China as causing new problems in Cambodia.
National Police chief Neth Savoeun issued a five-point plan on Thursday that he said would eliminate drug use and trafficking by the end of the year.
A policy to rotate judges and other court officials between provinces every four years has done little to tackle the roots of judicial corruption and court pliability in the face of government pressure, according to critics and legal experts.
An unidentified Chinese company will be forced to rebuild a portion of damaged road between Kampot town and the Veal Renh roundabout, which lies about 50 km west along National Road 3 on the way to Sihanoukville, due to severe damage sustained by the road, according to Transport Minister Sun Chanthol.
Government investigators arrived too late to conduct an autopsy of an opposition activist who died three days after being detained by police, the National Committee Against Torture said upon the release of its official report into the incident.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Foreign Affairs Ministry and others this week continued to take issue with the question of whether the Vietnam-backed overthrow of
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