A former Cambodian consul general to China was convicted of money laundering Friday morning for purchasing and not declaring a condominium in Phnom Penh, adding to an existing prison sentence for corruption-related offenses.
A former CNRP official was arrested in Oddar Meanchey province as he was increasing his involvement with the Candlelight Party, his wife and party officials said.
The annual catch of the small fish used to make prahok, Cambodia’s famously pungent fish paste, has been abundant this year, fishers and traders say. But there appear to be fewer buyers around, and prices have dropped by as much as half, they say.
A lawyer representing two former Cambodia Daily reporters was hopeful the Tbong Khmum Appeal Court would uphold a lower court decision to drop incitement charges against them after a prosecutor said there was no new evidence to reinstate the charges.
A court prosecutor said that senior CNRP leaders were not being blocked from returning to the country, and that they could relinquish their foreign citizenship in order to get deported back to Cambodia.
At a hotel inauguration, Hun Sen continued to defend his decision to travel to Myanmar next month to find a resolution to the February military takeover of the now-shunned Asean member state.
The Cambodian Health Ministry confirmed the first official case of Omicron variant late Tuesday with the mutated virus found in a passenger arriving from Ghana on Sunday.
Nearly two years after the suspension of hearings, former CNRP president Kem Sokha will head to a Phnom Penh court in January to attend his treason trial.
Just one of 13 summoned defendants was present at the fifth hearing in a trial involving more than 40 former opposition members charged with plotting and incitement, as questioning again fell into a familiar pattern about links to the CNRP and overseas trainings.
An international rights group has criticized the local Australian Embassy for participating in an event involving the military’s Brigade 70, which has been accused of being part of a grenade attack in 1997 against Sam Rainsy, among other alleged rights violations.
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