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Share Farmers urge authorities to replace local water supplier Thu, 18 February 2021 Nearly 400 families living in O’Kanthor commune of Kampong Thom province’s Stung Sen town urged the provincial authorities not to renew a company’s licence for pumping water from Stung Sen to irrigate their dry-season rice. The families requested that the authorities provide a licence to some other capable company instead and let farmers vote to determine which firm will do the job. Sin Sam Ath, a repres...

Share NACT chairman Nuth Sa An was in Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri provinces on February 10 to raise awareness about the obligation of sub-national authorities to refrain from using any form of torture on detainees. Interior Ministry Committee sheds light on torture Thu, 11 February 2021 The National Committee Against Torture (NACT) continues to do outreach work to raise awareness among sub-national officials about respect for human rights and the UN Convention against Torture as the draft law on...

Share More than 460 kg of illegal drugs were discovered and seized on the evening of February 6 during naval patrols in Koh Rong Sanloem commune of Preah Sihanouk province’s Koh Rong town. Police Police search out source of 500kg stash of ketamine Tue, 9 February 2021 Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has instructed investigators to clearly identify the sources of drugs being trafficked to Cambodia in light of the recent case where nearly 500kg of ketamine was found on Koh Poulo Wai Island in Pr...

Share Rights committee offers free legal advice hotline Thu, 4 February 2021 Starting February 3, anyone who has a question on the law or needs legal advice can phone lawyers from the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) and consult with them for free, according to a CHRC notice on February 4. The CHRC informed the public that for a limited period of time it was sponsoring a free legal advice hotline and lawyers were waiting to take their phone calls and answer their questions. Five to six ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said the government had decided to enhance the effectiveness of the safe village-commune policy to respond to recent events because peace, political stability, security and public order are the factors crucial to maintaining a favourable economy and society. The decision comes 10 years after the safe village-commune policy was first introduced by the Ministry of Interior. The policy had gained wide support, especially among administrations at sub-national levels, with ma...

Land returns after complaint to World Bank offer hope to indigenous villagers by Sun Narin Lmam Pjanh, a Kachork ethnic village, stands inside her simple wooden house in the northeast Cambodia’s Rattanakiri province. Photo: Sun Narin/VOA Khmer KAK VILLAGE, Rattanakiri Province — Lmam Pjanh recently sat on a mat in her simple wooden house and recalled the times when Kak Village, situated in a bend of the Sesan River, was a place of plenty. Until the late 1990s, she said, the ethnic Kachork v...

Kem Sokhas Facebook Page Watchdogs and political analysts are calling on the leader of Cambodia’s banned main opposition party to push for a faster trial in an effort to solve political deadlock so the country can move on, the analysts told RFA. Cambodia’s Supreme Court dissolved the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in November 2017, two months after the arrest of party leader and co-founder Kem Sokha for his role in an alleged scheme to topple Prime Minister H...

Share Inmates transferred to reduce crowding Tue, 19 January 2021 Eighty-seven out of nearly 800 inmates have been transferred from Kratie provincial prison to Stung Treng in an effort to alleviate severe overcrowding. Kratie prison director Kva Saran told The Post on January 19 that the transfer had been approved by the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons. Most of the inmates had been charged with theft or possession or use of drugs. “Our prison is small and was designed t...

by Buth Reaksmey Kongkea A temporary ban on fishing was ordered yesterday by the district authorities of Kampong Tralach in Cambodia to prevent violence while mediation continues to resolve a dispute between the people of three villages and Lorpeang Natural Resources Conservation community. The authorities also ordered the demolition of the community guardhouse in a large natural lake which had been erected to prevent illegal fishing. San Sam Ath, deputy governor of Kampong Tralach...

CNRP deputy chief Mu Sochua and dozens of other exiles are being tried for ‘incitement’ and ‘treason.’