A week after his arrest, the deputy principal of a Phnom Penh international school accused of sexually abusing a 5-year-old student was charged on Friday and sent to Prey Sar prison to await trial, a court spokesman said.
Mark Andrew Smith, 39, a U.K. national, was charged with indecent assault with aggravating circumstances after an hourlong questioning before Phnom Penh Municipal Court Investigating Judge Y Thavrak, court spokesman Sous Vichearandy said.
A new storm headed for Cambodia overnight could flood Phnom Penh and areas of the Mekong river downstream from the capital, adding to the woes of disaster planners already dealing with flooding in Stung Treng province, officials said Friday.
Officials from the National Committee for Disaster Management are watching tropical storm Nesat, the ninth of the season, which could inundate Phnom Phnom with heavy rains through Saturday, said Nhim Vanda, the disaster agency’s first vice-president.
Prominent land activist Tep Vanny remained defiant on Thursday during an Appeal Court hearing to dispute her more than two-year prison sentence over charges related to a 2013 demonstration in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s mansion.
Outside the courthouse, a crowd of about 30 members from her eviction-hit Boeng Kak community called for her release from behind picket signs, chanting “Free Tep Vanny” in unison.
Political commentator Kim Sok sat through his trial on defamation and incitement charges at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday with paper stuck in his ears, in protest over a case he dismissed as a political farce from the start.
Mr. Sok was arrested and charged in February for allegedly using a Radio Free Asia interview to link the ruling CPP to the July 2016 assassination of popular political analyst and critic Kem Ley.
The widow of slain political analyst Kem Ley said in a radio interview that she would not have taken the $60,000 her husband’s family accepted from Prime Minister Hun Sen to help pay for a memorial stupa and costs of a one-year anniversary ceremony.
“In my opinion, donations from people who love my husband should be enough to cover the funeral,” Bou Rachana said in a Facebook message to The Cambodia Daily on Tuesday.
Phnom Penh will begin measuring the homes of hundreds of families seeking land titles to stave off potential eviction by a massive real-estate project filling in a pair of lakes, a municipal government spokesman said on Tuesday.
The decision followed a closed-door meeting between city officials and some of the 50 or so residents of Meanchey and Dangkao districts who gathered outside City Hall on Tuesday morning to protest the development by ING Holdings and ask for help.
A railway line that will transport passengers from the center of Phnom Penh to its airport is set to open in April, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol announced on Friday, adding that no evictions would be necessary to make way for the development.
An additional 1.5 km of railway track will be built to branch off existing lines and drop passengers at the airport, Mr. Chanthol said during a handover ceremony in Phnom Penh for mechanical equipment donated by China.
About 70 percent of roads and bridges in Cambodia have been funded by China, with loans for their financing adding up to about $2 billion, government-affiliated Fresh News reported the transport minister as saying on Friday.
Minister Sun Chanthol was accepting mechanical equipment donated to Cambodia by the regional superpower when he said that over 2,000 km of roads across the country and seven major bridges had been constructed with Chinese funds, the website reported.
A railway system that would transport passengers from the center of Phnom Penh to its airport will open to the public in April, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol announced on Friday, adding that no evictions would be necessary to make way for the development.
An additional 1.5 km of railroad tracks will be built to branch off existing lines and drop off passengers at the airport, Mr. Chanthol said in Phnom Penh during a handover ceremony for mechanical equipment donated by China.
Vietnam has pledged $25 million to Cambodia to build a new National Assembly secretariat building in Phnom Penh, while also promising greater cooperation on a range of issues between the two nations, officials said on Thursday.
Officials from Cambodia and Vietnam signed five memorandums of understanding (MoU) during a ceremony at the Peace Palace presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen and attended by Nguyen Phu Trong, general-secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who arrived on Thursday for a two-day visit to Cambodia, according to a government statement provided to reporters.
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