More than 200 officers demolished dozens of Phnom Penh houses to make way for the $2-billion Sihanoukville expressway, part of China’s Belt and Road initiative, as residents rejected what they said was inadequate compensation.
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After the government ceded an additional 36 hectares of Tamouk Lake to the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) in a sub-decree dated August 26, questions were raised as to whether or not it was given to Generals Vong Pisen and Sao Sokha, who were named in the document.
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Kak Sovann Chhay, son of a detained former opposition official, was convicted of incitement and insulting government officials on Nov. 1 with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court handing down an 8-month sentence, but will serve four months and 15 days in prison—the remainder of his sentence will be suspended.
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A two-star general was denied by the Supreme Court for allegedly beating up and confining a woman in January, with the defendant’s lawyer describing the altercation as a “little clash.”
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Phnom Penh Appeal Court held the appeal hearing for the case of Soung Sophorn, former president of Khmer Win Party, who was last year sentenced by the lower court to 20 months in prison accused of inciting people against the government regarding the border demarcation between Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Phnom Penh Court of Appeal heard the appeal of nine officials and activists of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party who were convicted over a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy last year.
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Sam Chamroeun, the defense lawyer of Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, director of Mother Nature, on Wednesday asked Phnom Penh Appeal Court to drop his client’s charges and annul the warrant issued for his client’s arrest, stating that his client has not committed anything wrong, despite being sentenced by the Municipal Court.
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Phnom Penh Court of Appeal today upheld the sentencing the of three youth activists working with the Mother Nature NGO’s sentences. The three were accused of inciting people against the authorities and the government. The offences were committed between 2017 and 2020.
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More than 30,000 illegal migrants have been deported since the beginning of the year with the numbers rising ahead of the country’s reopening the Defence Ministry said.
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