Cambodian News

Police will re-investigate the murder of popular labor leader Chea Vichea if and when the courts order it, a spokesman said Monday.
Last week the two men who had been accused of the murder, Sok Samoeun and Born Samnang, were released from jail, following an order by the Supreme Court for the Appeals Court to rehear [...]

Two men released on bail Thursday night after more than four years in prison said they were grateful but wary they had not received full justice.
Born Samnang, 24, and Sok Samoeun, 36, were released from Prey Sar prison Wednesday night, following a decision by the Supreme Court Wednesday ordering the Appeal Court to review murder [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodia’s highest court Wednesday provisionally released two alleged killers of a prominent labour leader and ordered the case to be re-tried, citing unclear evidence.
Chea Vichea, who headed the country’s largest labour union and was a vocal critic of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government, was gunned down at a Phnom Penh newsstand [...]

The International Labor Organization has renewed criticism of Cambodian authorities for their failure to solve the murders of union leaders, according to a report by an ILO committee obtained by VOA Khmer.
The report details the killing of union leaders Chea Vichea and Ros Sovannareth, who were killed in 2004, and Hy Vuthy, killed in 2007, [...]

BARAY, Cambodia: The dry season has taken hold here, but water is everywhere. It pours out of sluice gates with the roar of an Alpine torrent. Playful children do back flips into the ubiquitous canals and then pull their friends in with them. Fishermen cast their nets for minnows, and villagers wash their Chinese-made motorcycles.
“It’s never [...]

The number of prisoners in Pursat provincial prison has increased to a concerning amount, officials said, claiming inmates crammed in their cells could suffer from illness, or even break out to run away.
Ngourn Lay, chief of Pursat prison, said Tuesday the number of prisoners increased in November, from 180 in October to 223 now. Of [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Police are on the hunt for Japanese terrorists suspected of seeking refuge in Cambodia after decades on the run, national media reported Monday.
According to documents issued by the Phnom Penh police, 14 ex-members of the leftist Japanese Red Army militia and Yodo-go Group, which is best known for the [...]

A senior UN official said Wednesday he is planning to hold Khmer Rouge tribunal talks with Council Minister Sok An early in December.
“We are hoping to be able to have a meeting with Cambodia in the first week of December,” UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Peter Taksoe-Jensen told VOA Khmer. “We haven’t nailed down [...]

PHNOM PENH, Nov 27 (IPS) – With its first trial delayed until early 2009, the Khmer Rouge tribunal is facing another challenge: how to balance its mandate to try only former leaders deemed most senior against pressure to prove its independence by ordering further arrests.
The question of who to prosecute is a complex matter for [...]

Cambodian police will continue their counterterrorism efforts with its new national police chief, following the death earlier this month of Hok Lundy, a senior official said.
The late chief, who died in a helicopter crash in Svay Rieng province, was replaced by his deputy, Gen. Neth Savoeun, who will continue cooperation with the US and other [...]