Cambodian News

Residents being pushed out by a lake development in Phnom Penh called on the National Assembly and two government ministries to intervene.
Thousands of residents living near Boeung Kak lake, in the north of the city, have not reached an agreement for compensation from a developer to move from their homes.
The city signed a 99-year, $79 [...]

Representatives of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom community in the United States met Tuesday with officials at the US State Department Wednesday to report on rights violations of ethnic Khmer living in southern Vietnam.
The group is also seeking intervention for a number of refugees, including Tim Sakorn, the former head monk of a Takeo province pagoda [...]

Foreign ministers from Asean countries concluded meetings in Vietnam Thursday by calling on the Burmese junta to release pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi.
In a joint statement with the EU, the ministers said Ang San Suu Kyi should be freed from house arrest, where she has spent 13 of the past 19 years.
The joint announcement with the [...]

The US called on Cambodia to take measures to better provide health to women, an average five of whom die each day while giving birth.
The high maternal mortality rate goes with a high infant mortality rate, and the US called for serious action from the government and NGOs to help women.
“The Government of the United [...]

[Editor’s note: This month, VOA Khmer broadcast a series of stories looking at bribery charges from within the elite Royal Academy for Judicial Professions. Four current students said they expected to pay bribes of between $20,000 and $150,000 to sit as judges in the national court system. VOA Khmer also reported that the sibling of [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AFP) — Cambodia broke ground at its capital’s busiest intersection Wednesday for what will be the country’s first road overpass.
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the start of the project, intended to reduce Phnom Penh’s increasing traffic problems, at a ceremony opening another new bridge at the intersection.
“It is will be the first [...]

The National Election Committee released the official result of this month’s council elections, with the ruling Cambodian People’s Party winning leadership in all councils across the country.
The fractious royalist parties of Norodom Ranariddh and Funcinpec won seats, along with members of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party.
The country’s 11,353 commune council members from the CPP and [...]

Around 50 human rights advocates and Burmese citizens demonstrated in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Phnom Penh Wednesday, calling for the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The peaceful demonstration coincided with a meeting of Asean foreign affairs ministers.
“We expect this meeting will discuss Aung San Suu Kyi’s case, and we are pushing [...]

Three of six suspects implicated in a bomb plot in Phnom Penh in January appeared in court Wednesday, but judges said the investigation was incomplete.
Reach Samnang,50, former police commissioner of Mondolkiri province , Phy Sa Vong,50, a former researcher in military intelligence, and Sam Ek, alias Ty To, 52, appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court [...]

A US Khmer Rouge researcher told tribunal judges Wednesday the regime’s ministries were not well organized and decisions were made instead by the standing committee of the communist party.
Craig Etcheson, the first foreign expert to be called in the trial of Duch, head of the regime’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison, described an administrative organization in [...]