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The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal is steadily working toward it biggest, more complicated trial to date, but that trial has been overshadowed in recent months by the court’s handling of two additional cases, which has seen the resignation of one UN judge and an emergency meeting with the UN’s top legal counsel and Cambodian officials. A growing number of court observers now say the court’s approach to cases 003 and 004 is derailing its credibility, even as it prepares to try four Khmer Rouge leaders for one of the worst atrocities of the 20 th Century.

Ed Royce, a House Republican from California, said the UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh has cost millions of dollars, tried only one man, and was leaving Cambodians in America frustrated by its lack of effectiveness.

One year into the implementation of the anti-corruption law, Cambodia has made a number of high-profile arrests.

‘Unnecessary’ regulations blamed for hindering freight

Teachers filed a complaint with the provincial Department of Education and the Education Ministry on Monday by accusing Ms. Touch Sothea, School director of Samdech Hun Sen Kraul Hor High School, in Svay Rieng province’s Svay Chhrom district of nepotism and corruption. One out of teachers said that School principal is committing guilty of making [...]

Hing Chantha, a 45-year-old farmer in Kandal province, has lived with corruption his whole life. In 1996, he opened a business selling cabbage, cucumber and other vegetables at Takhmao market. Every year since then, he figures, he’s paid $300 a year in corruption, to protect his business and keep his children in school, and for [...]

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday lambasted the country’s new anti-corruption law as a sham, saying those who commit graft in the country will never be jailed for it. The law, which took 15 years to draft and less than a week to approve, will not have the teeth necessary to rein in Cambodia’s rampant [...]