Draft Law Passed to Sunset the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The draft legislation would scale down operations of the hybrid court, which officially commenced in 2007, with a transition period of two to three years.
Mech Dara Oct 27, 6:12 pm
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The draft legislation would scale down operations of the hybrid court, which officially commenced in 2007, with a transition period of two to three years.
The trucks are not carrying sugarcane. There is no sugarcane for kilometers. Instead, the cleared land is filled with rice paddy ready for harvest. Kuy villagers in Preah Vihear are moving back onto plantation land from which they were once evicted.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has promoted 25 people to be his official assistants, including a bodyguard who has received land on Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake and another who was nearly scammed online by a 14-year-old.
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The sister of disappeared activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit was summoned to a prosecutor’s office on Monday. Though it’s a first for Sitanan, criminal prosecution has become a routine reality for hundreds of Thais taking a stand in the country’s pro-democracy movement.
Bankruptcy is a seldom used legal provision in Cambodia, even though it has been part of regulations since the passage of the 2007 Law on Insolvency. This issue is most likely seen in the media in the context of garment factories going bankrupt and selling assets to pay creditors and employees.
Direct flights from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines are allowed again, the Health Ministry announced over the weekend, though it is still unclear when flights will resume.
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The symbolism used to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreements is one of reconciliation. But the road to that moment was long, more than a decade in the making and intertwined with tectonic shifts in the geopolitical arrangements that helped usher in the Khmer Rouge in the first place.
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