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Nearly 50 Judges Reshuffled Across Courts
Cambodia’s courts saw 48 new appointments late last year, including the transfer of Phnom Penh judges who presided over recent mass trials against opposition activists, according to the Royal Gazette.
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Election Rundown: July 6-July 11
Here’s a rundown of the most notable election-related information, events and public statements, collected in the week to July 11, 2023.
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Four Local Administrators Made Assistants to Hun Sen
The king appointed four district and provincial administrators to be assistants to Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to a document in the Royal Gazette released in June.
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Hun Sen Recommends His Niece for Honorary Title
The government bestowed titles to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s niece and the wife of a senior ministry official, and replaced a provincial governor who is undergoing medical treatment.
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Koh Rong Commune Official Jailed for Graft Gets Pardon
A Koh Rong commune councilor sentenced to prison for forging documents that were used to grab more than 500 hectares of land on the island was given a pardon last November, according to book 91 of the Royal Gazette.
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Hun Sen’s Travel Costs, Worker Compensation: Gazette 78 Roundup
Millions of dollars were set aside to pay for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s global meetings, while more than 1,000 workers received state compensation for companies abandoning their operations in Cambodia, book 78 of the Royal Gazette shows.
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Ly Yong Phat’s Family Receives New Permit for Sugar Factory
Kampong Speu Sugar, run by the wife and son-in-law of ruling-party Senator Ly Yong Phat, received a new permit to open a factory in Aural district, according to the Royal Gazette.
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Facebook ‘Troll’ Made Hun Sen Assistant
Prime Minister Hun Sen has made the owner of a social media “troll” account his new assistant, shortly after the social media personality encouraged people to vote for the CPP in the July election.
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Election Rundown: June 28-July 5
Here’s a rundown of the most notable election-related information, events and public statements, collected from the week of June 28 to July 5, 2023.
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Pro-Government Media Claims Thousands of Defections to CPP
Between January and June 2023, government mouthpiece Fresh News reported 6,473 defections from opposition parties in dozens of separate news items, according to a sampling of the reports.
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Oknha Title Given to Businesswoman With Links to Brigade 70, Hun Manet
Say Sorphea — chair of a company formerly run by Hun Manet’s wife, a recipient of state land on Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake, and wife of a Brigade 70 general — has been given the title of oknha, according to the Royal Gazette.
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Five Reportedly Detained in Dispute at Economic Land Concession
Five people were arrested over a land dispute with Rath Sambath company in Samlot district’s Ta Tork commune in Battambang on June 22, according to reports from local media outlet CamboJA.
