REAKSMEY KONGKEA

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea Public Works Minister Sun Chanthol said on Thursday that the government is planning to open a new international border checkpoint with Thailand in Thmor Da commune, in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, located on the border with Thailand’s Trat province. Chanthol met with the technical working group on Thursday and said that the construction of the facility at Thmor Da International Border Checkpoint will be opened this year. He said that the aim of opening the international border checkpoint is to further strengthen trade and tourism cooperation between the two countries. He added that prior to the opening of the checkpoint, the government has to build infrastructure, including immigration buildings, customs and excise buildings, joint checkpoints, transit stations, warehouses, container grounds and administrative buildings, and dormitory buildings to open up opportunities for greater international operations, investment, cross-border trade, job creation and ...

  Buth Reaksmey Kongkea   Police in Siem Reap province’s Soutr Nikum district yesterday sent a pair of lovers to the provincial court for questioning over the alleged murder of the girl’s 11-year-old brother because he caught them having sex.   The murder took place at about 9.30 pm on January 8 at the rear of the two siblings’ house located in Soutr Nikum district’s Ta Ye commune.   District police deputy chief Major Chan Saroeun yesterday identified the suspects as Chith Phan, 21, a construction worker living in Chi Kreng district’s Russei Luok village; and his girlfriend Lay Sali, 17, a farmer living in Ta Ye commune’s Boeng Vien village. He identified the victim as Lay Bunleng, a primary school student. Maj Sareoun said that according to police’s investigation as well as the two suspects’ confession during police interrogation, Phan and Sali are boyfriend and girlfriend. They knew each other through Facebook’s messenger in 2021. He said that on th...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea A former CNRP activist was released from prison on Wednesday after having served outher sentence for insulting government leaders and throwing a shoe at a Cambodian People’s Party billboard showing the images of Prime Minister Hun Sen and National Assembly President Heng Samrin in 2017.  Kampong Speu provincial prison officer Major Bun Heng yesterday identified her as   Sam Sokha, 42, who was a garment worker living in the province’s Phnom Srouch district.   Ma j . Heng said that Sokha was sentenced by Kampong Speu Provincial Court to two years in prison in 2017. He added that she was charged with two counts of “insulting and inciting to discriminate” and was arrested on February 9, 2018.  “She was released on Wednesday from Kampong Speu Provincial Prison after she had served her two-year prison term,” Maj. Heng told Khmer Times . “She has already left for home to meet her family.”   Sam Sokha could not be contacted for comment ye...

  Buth Reaksmey Kongkea Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday postponed the hearing of former Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem Sokha because a government’s lawyer coming down with Covid-19. Presiding Judge Koy Sao confirmed yesterday that the hearing had to be postponed after the lawyer tested positive for the disease. He added that Sokha’s hearing will be resume on February 16 morning. Sann Chuoy, one of the government’s lawyers, said that on February 5, one of his colleagues Cheng Penghap went for check up at Preah Keto Mealea Hospital in Phnom Penh. He said Penghap was then diagnosed with Covid-19. Chuoy said that prior to this Penghap had met to discuss the case with a group of government lawyers. He added that the other lawyers were now in quarantine and he had asked Judge Sao to postpone the hearing to next week in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19. One of Sokha’s lawyers Heng Pheng told Khmer Times yesterday that the postponement or ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea Tycoon Duong Ngiep, a well-known businessman and a senior official of the Interior Ministry, called on Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany to intervene over claims of irregularities by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and its investigating judges who he says exploited money from him. Duong Ngiep, father of disgraced former tycoon Duong Chhay, appealed to Mr Hun Sen by posting live on Facebook from his account asking for help. On Tuesday, Duong Ngiep posted live again but this time from the entrance of Prey Sar Prison where he volunteered to be incarcerated rather than pay the investigating judge more extortion money of an undisclosed amount. The court is investigating a $5 million fraud case against Duong Ngiep filed by the lawyer representing three Taiwanese businessmen. “The Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s Investigating Judge issued a warrant to arrest me (in two days) and accused me of cheating many US dollars from a group of Taiwanese nationals,”...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea   The Phnom Penh Appeal Court on February 8, 2022 heard the appeal case of a businessman who was jailed three years for allegedly bringing in ivory, without permission, from South Africa into Cambodia in 2014. Presiding Judge Suos Sam Ath identified the accused as Khan Sith, 41, the owner of Reho Both Cambodia Co. Ltd, from Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district.   He said that the accused was sentenced on November 15, 2014 by Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court to three years in jail but the term was commuted to only a year. The court also fined him about $22,500.   Judge Sam Ath said that Sith was charged with “Illegal transport of wildlife (ivory), a rare and endangered species” under Article 98 of the Cambodian Law on Forest.   Judge Sam Ath said that on May 9, 2014, Camcontrol officers in collaboration with customs officers based at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, in Preah Sihanouk province, seized 778 pieces of ivory weighing 30,080 ki...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea Police in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district in collaboration with Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) deminers yesterday removed more than 4,500 unexploded ordnances [UXOs] which have been buried in a former Khmer Rouge military camp in Trapaing Chor commune. Oral district police chief Colonel Buth Bunthoeun said that around 10am on Monday, a bulldozer clearing land for a real estate company to construct roads in Chhoeuteal Chroum village uncovered the UXOs. He said they found a total of 20 cases of AK-57 rifle bullets equaling 4,400 bullets, 19 DK 82 machine gun bullets and 30 rockets buried in the ground. The company representative alerted the district police officer who then called CMAC’s deminers for removal. The deminers went to the site yesterday and destroyed the UXOs after their inspection. “The discovery of theses unexploded ordnances is due to the area being transformed into a flat area for construction by the real estate investors when the...