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12 May 2016 From the lowest ...
Two police officers who allegedly forged the signature of Phnom Penh's Meachey district police chief on a family book were charged and sent to provisional detention yesterday...
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12 May 2016 to the highest
Cambodia's ambassador to Australia was told by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...to respond to allegations that he and his staff have been illegally selling large quantities of tax-exempt alcohol and tobacco to a store in Melbourne.
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9 May 2016
Two years ago, Phnom Penh municipal health officials were still offering reassurances that the Chamkar Mon referral hospital, a free public women's and children's health facility that had been closed for three years, would reopen after renovations. But according to the construction company currently developing the site, the building has been sold to a private company and will instead oepn as a bank.... |
1 May 2016
A provinicial fishery adminstration officer was charged by the Siem Reap Provincial Court yesterday for alleged extortion and receiving bribes amounting to $365,000 from fishermen in exchange for allowing them to fish in the protected Tonle Sap Lake....
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9 April 2016
A bureau chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was arrested and charged by Phnom Penh Municipal Court...over allegations that he accepted bribes from foreign corporations in return for processing official paperwork....
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3 April 2016
Forestry Administration officials detained two military police officers and a third man...for attempting to stop them from transporting a haul of illegally logged wood to their headquarters in Kratie City...
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9 March 2016
A police official in Kompong Thom province has so far avoided prosecution in a weekend timber smuggling case involving his brother, three unidentified loggers and three carloads of rosewood logs marked with his name. The official denies involvement.... (When pursued, three cars with illegal lumber fled to the official's house and entered it after abandoning the cars on his property.)
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4 March 2016
Police are searching for the owner of a Lexus SUV bearing Royal Cambodian Armed Forces licence plates who fled after firing his weapon into the air to scare a motorbike driver with whom he had gotten into a fender-bender on Monireth Boulevard on Saturday night. Local media reports suggested the owner of the vehicle was believed to be a one-star general working for the Ministry of Defence.... |
24 February 2016
Nine families who lost their farmland to an under-construction special economic zone (SEZ) in Koh Kong province filed a complaint with the provincial government...seeking to have the land excised from the industrial park and returned to them.
The families are the only holdouts among more than 100 families that were initially kicked off their land to make way for the 1,743-hectare SEZ in Kiri Sako district, which is being constructed by CPP Senator Ly Young Phat, a prominent businessman with close ties to the government. |
16 February 2016
The Ministry of the Interior has removed four Oddar Meanchey provincial officials from office, including former deputy governor of Anlong Veng district Nhem En, for failing to show up for work, according to a ministry letter received by Khmer Times.... |
17 April 2015
A group of Siem Reap provincial CNRP officials plan to protest outside the opposition party's headquarters in Phnom Penh...to request that provincial party chief Ke Sovannaroth be ousted due to alleged "irregular spending," an official said.... |
17 April 2015
Military officials in Banteay Meanchey province have removed a local platoon commander from his post for alleged wood smuggling after he evaded detention by fellow soldiers earlier..., but it remained unclear whether he would be fired or prosecuted. |
1 March 2015
Siem Reap provincial police chief Sorth Nady has been named as a conspirator in a complaint to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) that accuses the provincial force's personnel chief of soliciting bribes for promotions and embezzling money from salary books. |
25 February 2015
The National Assembly's banking and finance commission decided...to summon Leng Peng Long, parliament's chief administrative official, for questioning over claims of nepotism and alleged spending irregularities including $25,000 spent on a flagpole.... |
5 February 2015
Sixteen forestry officials from three provinces were summoned to a meeting in Phnom Penh...after their names were found on a list of 49 suspected extortionists that police in Kampong Cham province seized from a truck that had been transporting illegally logged wood last week. Police believe the document is a checklist of individuals--police, military police and Forestry Administration officials--the driver of the truck would had had to pay off along his smuggling route. |
9 January 2015
Police in Kandal province...confiscated a haul of wood, including a few pieces of precious rosewood, that was being unlawfully transported to Phnom Penh by the military for the construction of a Brigade 90 commander's office. |
3 January 2015
A commune police chief and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) border police commander were arrested in Ratanakkiri province...for involvement in "forestry crime," according to officials who would not go into detail about what crime the pair had committed. |
11 November 2014
CPP National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said...that there will be no investigation into why the parliament's bureaucratic ranks are stacked with family members of one of its chief administrators, explaining that no law prohibits nepotism in the public sector. |
18 October 2014
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said it may soon start to monitor the often extravagant gift-giving that goes on among the country's business and political elite at weddings, birthdays, and ceremonies.... A technical advisor at rights group Licadho said that extravagant gifts exchanged between powerful families were often used as a facade to conceal corruption. |
The crooks and creeps just won't stop.... Almost every day there is at least one of these items: 14 October 2014
A 49-year-old journalist reportedly investigating illegal logging in Kratie province was shot dead early yesterday morning. Within hours, police arrested three men--a commune police chief, a military police officer, and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldier--for the murder.... |
9 October 2014 [Three headlines in one day's newspaper!]
The Siem Reap Provincial Court...charged three anti-economic crime police with the misappropriation of public funds for allegedly extorting money from illegal fishermen on the Tonle Sap River in Chi Kreng District.... |
9 October 2014
The seizure of 89 pieces of luxury-grade timber stockpiled just outside the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) headquarters in Kratie Province's Chhlong District...came only after authorities were tipped off by local residents who claim the base on the Chhlong river had become a regular transit point for illegal timber.... |
9 October 2014
A two-star military general accused of murdering his wife and 6-year-old daughter confessed to the crime when questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for the first time since his arrest last month... |
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10 June 2014 [Three headlines together in one day's newspaper!]
Kampong Thom prosecutors yesterday released seven men who were running an illegal checkpoint racket after they signed a contract agreeing to cease operations. The seven men--four military police officers, a journalist, an NGO worker, and a district environment official--were arrest in a sting operation on their checkpoint along National Road 62.... |
10 June 2014
A Kampong Cham provincial police official was arrested after authorities found drug paraphernalia in his house....Authorities investigated Mr. Seiha after seeing groups of people going in and out of his home for several months. |
10 June 2014
The military yesterday identified the solder who killed a man and seriously injured another in a hit and run last week, but police said they will only pursue criminal charges if the victim's family files a complaint. |
22 May 2014
When the 2007 Traffic Law was passed, it required that the myriad private vehicles on the road bearing Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) number plates be removed and switched with civilian plates within one year. But more than six years after this deadline, the sight of luxury SUVs displaying the distinctive red-and-blue plates is as familiar as ever.... General Chao Phirun, director of the Ministry of Defense's general department of material and technical services, said RCAF number plates continue to be issued for the military officials' personal vehicles.... |
14 May 2014 [Three headlines together in one day's newspaper!]
A teachers' union has accused education officials in Oddar Meanchey province's Anlong Veng district of stealing 21 million riel, or about $5,200, that had been slated as overtime payments for primary school teachers.... |
14 May 2014
Guards employed by real estate magnate Khun Sear who have allegedly been terrorizing three families at the center of a land dispute in Phnom Penh's Tuol Kok district threatened last night to kill a human rights worker, the victim and rights groups said.... |
14 May 2014
Two young sisters were seriously injured in Preah Vihear province...when a Land Cruiser driver identified as a bodyguard unit official struck the motorcycle they were riding on, then sped away.... |
5 April 2014
The Anti-Corruption Unit revealed that a district police chief and his deputy in Kampot Province who were arrested...made more that $64,000 by embezzling money, taking bribes, and stealing from his subordinates. Srun Lam...deducted money from subordinates' salaries, pocketed salaries of staff who no longer worked for the police, extorted money from traffice police and rice traders, and extorted bribes from offenders in exchange for not sending their cases to court.... |
25 March 2014
A local police chief in Takeo Province allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend on Friday, then fled the scene, provincial police said yesterday. |
18 February 2014
Mr. Sarath and Mr. Sophal had posed as Anti-Corruption Unit staff and falsely promised San Yen, a 35-year-old farmer from Kampot, that they could get his incarcerated cousin released from jail. After he realized he had been cheated, Mr. Yen then filed a complaint against the two men.... Mr. Sophal said he would not be appealing, but claimed he had passed the money on to "high ranking officials" in order to get Mr. Yen's cousin released, and had in turn been cheated by them. |
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Military police assisting a private company to clear land farmed by about 300 families in Kandal province allegedly shot two protesting villagers..., local residents and human rights groups said.... |
11 January 2009
Sihanoukville police arrested two SRP commune councillors...for allegedly selling land that didn't belong to them in Prey Nop district's Bit Traing commune, officials said.S'ville Property-Selling Scheme |
14 December 2008
So far this year, a total of 146 villagers nationwide have been charged with criminal offenses related to land disputes with the rich and powerful, local rights group Adhoc announced....in Land Disputes: Adhoc |
17 February 2008
Senior officials, including party leaders, a former governor, and the prosecutor in charge of the case, were to receive portions of disputed land in Banteay Meanchey from a development organization, according to documents obtained Monday. The National Agriculture Development organization offered to split more than 50 hectares of land between at least 14 officials...according to a NADA internal document.... |
17 February 2008
Prime Minister Hun Sen warned he would continue fighting against corrupt military and government officials who use their positions to encroach on other people's land but stopped short of naming names.... |
16 February 2008
The prosecutor of the Pursat Provincial Court is allegedly involved in a land-dispute case that was mysteriously moved to his court from the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court last week.... |
16 February 2008
Police in Phnom Penh...arrested the 22-year-old son of a high-ranking police official for allegedly attacking a union leader and two garment workers and destroying their motorcycle in Dangkao District, police said.... |
22 December 2008
Senior Ministry of Health medical staff have alleged that they were forced, and are being forced, to pay large kickbacks to senior officials in exchange for the dispersal of a long-delayed pay increase. |
17 October 2008
Attorney Chiv Songhak was elected the new president of the Cambodian Bar Association...for the next two-year term, amid allegations that he had given out gifts to voters. |
27 January 2008
Marking the Chinese New Year with flair on Monday, two local tycoons handed out individual gifts of as much as $25 in cash to members of the city's municipal and military police force, officers said. |
27 January 2008
Police and forestry officials burned more than 100 homes in Banteay Meanchey province...in a land dispute that has villagers and authorities accusing each other of breaking the law, villagers and officials said. |
10 December 2008
A karaoke video star's Toyota Camry crashed into a recently erected monument to renowned Buddhist scholar Chuon Nath in a traffic circle in Phnom Penh..., breaking the head off a concrete lion and damaging a Naga statue, officials said. Military police are searching for the driver and passengers, who ditched the car and fled the scene.... |
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Lawmakers for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party...sent a formal request to Minister of Public Works and Transportation Trem Iv Tek urging an end to the illegal use of license plates meant solely for government vehicles. |
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The family of a 25-year-old man who is wanted for killing a woman and injuring two others in an unprovoked shooting outside the Royal Palace...has paid compensation to his victims, the wanted man's lawyer said.... |
10 November 2008
A high school principal in Prey Veng province is under investigation for allegedly embezzling school funds and illegally grabbing school land to build a private residence, teachers and provincial officials said.... |
5 November 2008
Takeo province fisheries department officials arrested a military police officer and impounded a car containing 500 kg of pacu, a type of fish that is banned in Cambodia, Takeo fisheries department director Kim Sarith said.... |
3 November 2008
...[A]n RCAF two-star general has been detained on suspicion of having forged documents to grab land in Kandal province, officials said... |
26 November 2008
Residents taking part in a training course to organize a local community group in Phnom Penh's threatened Boeng Kak lake area have accursed a village chief of threatening them for participating. |
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