The Phnom Penh Post - ENGLISH: “Cambodia cracks down on rights day march” plus 9 more

The Phnom Penh Post - ENGLISH: “Cambodia cracks down on rights day march” plus 9 more


Cambodia cracks down on rights day march

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:40 PM PST

Celebrations were closed down, an NGO worker was briefly detained and security forces were accused of stomping on a protester's stomach on International Human Rights Day.

Cambodia's claim to statue 'far-fetched': Sotheby's

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:37 PM PST

Sotheby's say they have found one key flaw in the case to repatriate a valuable Angkorean-era sculpture: the statue wasn't stolen in the first place.

Play guns, real arrests

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:35 PM PST

Police arrested three alleged "armed" robbers after they used plastic pistols to steal $70 and a mobile phone from an elderly woman in Phnom Penh.

Pension scheme ramps up

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:31 PM PST

121211_03More than 700,000 workers at private companies and factories across 19 provinces have registered to join a nationwide pension scheme that goes into effect in 2015.

PM urges North Korea to call off rocket launch

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:29 PM PST

Speaking as ASEAN chair, PM Hun Sen appealed to North Korea to permanently postpone a highly criticised planned rocket launch.

Union representatives summonsed

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:27 PM PST

Union leaders representing workers on strike at the Tropicana Casino and Resort were served with a summons by the Banteay Meanchey provincial court after a complaint by the casino's management.

Scant resolution for blaze victims

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 07:18 PM PST

121211_05Officials remain unsure whether victims of the deadly fire that destroyed the Siem Reap Night Market and took the lives of eight people would receive any compensation for their losses.

Ethnic group press for communal title

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:59 PM PST

121211_05bEconomic land concessions granted to a pair of Vietnamese companies in Ratanakkiri are endangering the traditional lifestyles of as many as 200 ethnic-minority families.

Family honours fallen journalist

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:53 PM PST

121211_06Marjolaine Caron stood in front of the last picture ever taken of her father, Gilles Caron, whodisappeared while covering the opening salvos of the civil war in 1970.

Police Blotter: 11 Dec 2012

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 06:48 PM PST

A 22-year-old man is behind bars after attacking a trio of bystanders with a cleaver; a woman's call was cut short when thieves snatched her iPhone mid-sentence.

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