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The Phnom Penh Post Daily on Wednesday, 01 September 2010
By Meas Sokchea
CAR crashes, lightning strikes, gunshot wounds ...
These grisly fates – along with 500 lives’ worth of karmic suffering – await officials from the government’s newly established Anticorruption Unit who fail to discharge their duties properly, assuming that yesterday’s swearing-in ceremony at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh holds cosmic force.
The 14 officials who gathered yesterday were granted powers equivalent to those of judicial police in a prakas, or edict, signed last week by Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vatthana. ACU head Om Yentieng presided over the ceremony, imploring the spirit world to seek swift revenge against any officials from the group who stray from their responsibilities.
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The Phnom Penh Post Daily on Wednesday, 01 September 2010
By Sen David
POLICE in Preah Sihanouk province say they have apprehended a “famous” local drug dealer after a sting operation in which he was found to be carrying 3,200 amphetamine pills.
Deputy provincial police chief Cho Heang said the 57-year-old man was apprehended on Monday night after he attempted to sell the pills in a public garden close to Sihanoukville Autonomous Port.
“His name is Sat Buntouy, and he is famous for drug trafficking in Sihanoukville,” he said. Cho Heang said police had observed him selling drugs in the port area prior to his arrest.
“We found 16 packs of amphetamines equalling 3,200 pills on his person. Now we have detained him for 48 hours to conduct more investigations and collect proof for the court,” he said, and added that police had the right to hold him for 48 hours before sending him to provincial court.
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The Phnom Penh Post Daily on Wednesday, 18 August 2010
By Chun Sophal
PRIME Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that the government would guarantee 50 percent of commercial bank lending to rice producers in a bid to increase Cambodia’s exports of the grain to a million tonnes by 2015.
Speaking at a Phnom Penh unveiling of the government’s new rice production and export policies yesterday, he said borrowers would still have to repay loans, but the state would cover 50 percent of defaulters’ payments.
“We decided to create this policy in order to encourage all commercial banks to provide loans to be used for expanding paddy production and rice exports without worrying,” he said.
ACLEDA Bank Chief Executive Officer In Channy predicted the government’s guarantee would encourage commercial banks to increase agriculture lending.
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