A Phnom Penh court denied bail to prominent union leader Chhim Sithar, who argued in court that she was unaware bail restrictions had prohibited her from traveling overseas.
About 400,000 welfare recipients in Australia were wrongly slapped with fines as the result of an automated debt recovery scheme, known as Robodebt, set up by the former conservative coalition government.
Police investigations into plotting charges against former CNRP members, including Mu Sochua, relied mostly on their public Facebook posts and interviews with pro-opposition media Radio Free Asia.
The first woman to head an Australian intelligence agency said the glass ceiling for women’s career advancement was more like a “concrete block”, revealing even as a spy chief she had been asked to bring men coffee.
Nine Chinese men in custody were sentenced to life in prison for alleged crossed-border drug trafficking to Australia and New Zealand alongside more than 10 others in absentia.
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.
Despite the cordial tone in his Facebook post, Hun Sen said earlier in the day that there was speculation the Australian foreign minister would pressure Cambodia during the visit but that he would not allow that.
An eyewear company has been fined $3.5 million by an Australian court after falsely suggesting it was donating glasses to Cambodians “in need” for every pair it sold, according to Australia’s competition and consumer commission.
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