Cambodian activist Mam Sonando to be freed in days

Rights groups welcome decision by appeal court in Phnom Penh to drop insurrection charges against owner of Beehive Radio




Kate Hodal in Bangkok


guardian.co.uk,
Thursday 14 March 2013 







Cambodian supporters of Mam Sonando protest outside the appeal court in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty





Cambodian

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Hun Sen: Prince not involved with Politics

Prince Ranariddh (front right) and Nhiek Bunchhay (front left) held a press conference in 2012 after Funcinpec Party invited the prince to be president against but the agreement was later reneged by Nhiek Bunchhay.

 

PHNOM PENH, 14 March 2013 (The Cambodia Herald) -- Hun Sen announced Thursday he didn't
believe the rumor circulating that Prince Norodom Ranariddh had joined
opposition

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Khmer Rouge tribunal must speed up the trials

Ou Virak, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights

 



PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The death of Ieng
Sary, former Khmer Rouge foreign minister, gave a warning sign to
everyone, the tribunal must speed up the

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Ieng Sary's charges dropped because of death from heart failure

PHNOM PENH, 14 March 2013 (The Cambodia Herald) -- Ieng Sary's death from cardiac
failure led to the termination of his case, announced, co-prosecutor
Chea Leang, at the Extra-ordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia.Last
year, Ieng Sary was often hospitalized many times at the
Cambodian-Russian Friendship Hospital. The last time he was on March 4th
for vomiting and cardiac arrest.She

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Rice miller plans to export 10,000 tonnes

Last Updated on 14 March 2013
Phnom Penh Post
By May Kunmakara 




State-owned rice miller Green Trade plans to export about 10,000 tonnes
of milled rice to Libya this year, an insider has revealed.



Thon
Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade, told the Post
yesterday that he had signed an export deal with a private company in
Libya, adding that his company had already

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French query Vallier in-laws

Last Updated on 14 March 2013 
Phnom Penh Post 
By May Titthara








Police investigate
the vehicle in which French national Laurent Vallier and his four
children were found dead in Kampong Speu province in 2012. Photograph:
Derek Stout/Phnom Penh Post



French and Cambodian investigators yesterday questioned relatives of a
Frenchman who, along with his four children, died last year in

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For Cambodia, worries that death may beat justice

 

By SOPHENG CHEANG and TODD PITMAN | Associated Press



PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Decades after Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge
movement oversaw the deaths of 1.7 million people by starvation,
overwork and execution, the regime's imprisoned top leaders are escaping
justice one by one. How? Old age.

Thursday's death of 87-year-old Ieng Sary,
foreign minister under the Khmer Rouge, is

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