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Prime Minister Defends Sea Stance After Summit Breakdown
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday defended his strict hands-off policy toward territorial disputes in the South China Sea following news reports that his government scuttled yet another proposed joint statement from Asean on the issue. Following a meeting of Asean foreign ministers and their Chinese counterpart in China’s Yunan province last week, news reports emerged citing anonymous diplomats who claimed that Cambodia, Burma and Laos forced the recall of a joint statement by withdrawing their support for it.
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CNRP Prays at Angkor Wat
Dozens of CNRP members, along with more than 400 supporters, descended on Angkor Wat yesterday to pray for peace and urge a culture of dialogue between the ruling and opposition parties. Led by Pol Hom and 14 other CNRP members, the prayer ceremony started early in the morning in front of Preah Ang Chek and Preah Ang Chom.
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Plans to 'reconstruct' White Building discussed
Japanese and Cambodian officials on Friday visited Phnom Penh’s White Building as the first step in a possible pact to “reconstruct” the ailing structure. The plans, announced via Facebook, did not include any details on what such a project might entail for the iconic complex or residents, who have long feared eviction as part of any redevelopment plan.
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UN Program to Help Disabled
The ninth session of the Conference of the State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) took place at UN headquarters in New York last week. Neth Un, a high-ranking official at the Disability Action Council (DAC), told Khmer Times there were 130 prominent government officials from around the world who participated in the conference. Em Chan Makara, general secretary of the DAC, and Sam Sokha, president of the Cambodian delegation, were in attendance.
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Timber Smuggler’s Release Questioned
After a high-speed chase on Saturday involving a Toyota Camry carrying $50,000 worth of luxury rosewood, five gunshots and an arrest, a questionable deal was made with police and the car’s driver was released, according to local media. Teuk Phos district police confirmed the chase took place on National Road 5, starting in Battambang province and ending in Kampong Chhnang’s Damnak Ampil village.
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Convicted pedophiles remain free
Two foreigners convicted of child abuses remain free after their guilty verdicts were handed down late last week, court authorities confirmed yesterday. Roy Sheppard, 77, from the United Kingdom, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for molesting four victims, according to Siem Reap Provincial Court Judge Nguon Nara.
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Military Police Chief Denies Role in Wood Seizure
Authorities in Kompong Chhnang province say a car packed with rosewood was caught Saturday after a chase down National Road 5 led by deputy provincial military police chief Hang Socheat, yet Mr. Socheat claimed he was never there and knew nothing about it. Toek Phos district police chief Khem Vibol said on Sunday that provincial military police pursued the Toyota Camry and fired five shots before bringing the car to a stop at about 7:30 a.m.
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CNRP meets with supporters, EU delegation
The embattled Cambodia National Rescue Party held two events with party supporters yesterday, organising a religious ceremony in Siem Reap and meeting with CNRP youth in the capital. The events came two days after opposition leader Kem Sokha met with a delegation from the EU, which has been the most outspoken international critic of the ongoing scandal surrounding the deputy party president, calling it “judicial harassment”.
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NGO defends secretary general’s role in dispute
The steering committee of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee on Friday issued a response to concerns about its secretary-general Suon Bunsak’s involvement in a widely decried compensation process between Phnom Penh Sugar and evicted villagers in Kampong Speu province. The statement maintains that Bunsak’s presence at a May 16 meeting where more than 150 families accepted compensation was approved by the steering committee, and that he was “strictly advised to maintain neutrality towards both parties of the land conflict”.
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Government Asks Japan to Develop White Building
Almost two years after Phnom Penh’s governor announced that the White Building had been condemned, the Ministry of Land management on Friday asked Japan to help develop the iconic but decrepit structure as an affordable residential space.
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CNRP Petition Has 86 Duplicates, Government Says
Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak has said an inquiry into 170,000 thumbprints gathered by the CNRP for a petition calling on the king to intervene in the political crisis has uncovered 86 different cases where one thumbprint was placed next to multiple names. Prime Minister Hun Sen last month ordered the inquiry days after the CNRP submitted the petition to King Norodom Sihamoni calling for his help to end a spate of political repression, with deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha currently staying in the party’s headquarters to avoid arrest.
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Gov’t signs off on Koh Rong protected habitat
The Cambodian government has signed off on the Kingdom’s first dedicated marine protection area in a bid to save the Koh Rong Archipelago’s coral reef and sea life. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries signed an agreement late last week designating more than 400 square kilometres as a protected marine management area around the islands, located 20 kilometres off the coast of Sihanoukville.
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Cambodia Spoiled Asean Statement on Sea: Reports
Cambodia helped to scupper an Asean joint statement on the South China Sea last week, according to news reports, an echo of the success it had killing a similar statement when it was chair of the regional bloc four years ago. The Foreign Affairs Ministry issued its own statement after the two-day meeting in Kunming, China, supporting Beijing’s preference for settling territorial disputes in the hotly contested sea bilaterally.
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For Abusive Monk, Past Remains a Mystery
For almost a year, Vong Chet was able to exploit his position and power as the chief monk of a rural pagoda in Siem Reap province to rape at least 10 young boys in his care. Arrested in November, Mr. Chet was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday, a verdict that authorities said reflected the severity of his crimes and the lasting effect they would have on his victims.
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Freedom Park to Be Moved
The Phnom Penh Municipality is considering moving the 1.2-hectare Freedom Park in Daun Penh’s Sras Chork commune to an as yet to be revealed location. “The authority will find a new location that’s easy for the people to use to express themselves. However, if we relocate it to a secluded area where there are no people going to see it, that would not be right,” Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatevong said during a people’s forum at City Hall yesterday.
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Duch tells tribunal Nuon Chea ordered S-21 purges
The former chief of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious S-21 prison yesterday delved into details of the party’s internal purges and the regime’s final days. According to ex-warden Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, Khmer Rouge cadre were arrested “en masse” on the day Sao Phim – the East Zone secretary who later killed himself at S-21 – was arrested.
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Defiant Kem Sokha Still Free, Still in Hiding
A free man for another night, deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha remained in high spirits on Tuesday, according to a CNRP official, after armed police spent the day “training” around the corner from his sanctuary inside party headquarters in Phnom Penh.
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More Twists in Sokha Saga
Kem Sokha, the acting president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), ignored his third summons in a month yesterday, while the working group reviewing and verifying citizen’s thumbprints confirmed that some irregularities existed in his party’s petition for Royal intervention. Mr. Sokha was ordered to appear in court yesterday over the same case he also refused to attend at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on May 26. He was called as a witness in a prostitution case involving his alleged mistress.
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403 Kratie families seek land titles
Thirty people representing 403 families in a land dispute in Kampong Damrei commune, in Kratie province’s Chhlong district, filed a petition at the Ministry of Land Management yesterday asking for land titles after armed provincial authorities cleared their crops and settlements on June 12. The dispute began in 2013 when authorities asked 1,351 families to relocate from Damrei Phung to Kampong Damrei commune, said representative Mul Tert.
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Police Claim to Have Found CNRP Petition Irregularities
Authorities say they have discovered irregularities among the 170,000 thumbprints the CNRP gathered in support of a petition seeking King Norodom Sihamoni’s intervention in the current political crisis, deputy National Police chief Kang Sokhorn said on Tuesday.
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