Archive for January 6th, 2012
6 Jan
Cambodia: Fair Trial Rights? – Justice in Cambodia (4).
Excessive pretrial detention, low levels of legal representation and judges persistently taking personal telephone calls during hearings. These are just a few of the worrying issues that continue to plague courts of first instance in Cambodia, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights said in a report released yesterday. Main problem: Independence of judges. One of [...]
6 Jan
Cambodia: Riel but not USD stable!
These days you can read in the newspapers that Cambodia‘s currency, the Khmer Riel, held its ground versus the US dollar in 2011, staying virtually unchanged year-on-year. One greenback bought 4,057 Riel at the end of last year, a decrease of just 0.05 per cent from the 4,055 Riel a dollar bought at the end [...]
