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New protected forest areas revealed
Environment Minister Say Sam Al yesterday revealed the five areas to be included within 900,000 hectares of new protected forest announced last month. At a workshop yesterday, Sam Al said they would include parts of Prey Lang, Krovanh Khang Tbong, Preah Rokar, Siem Pang Khang Lech and Vern Sai forests with further areas including land along the Mekong River, Tonle Sap lake and coastline to be considered.
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Yentieng shuts down query into envelopes
The head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, Om Yentieng, yesterday dismissed a request to explain the contents of envelopes he distributed to soldiers earlier this month by, in essence, declaring: we ask the questions, not you. In a video clip posted to Facebook, Yentieng addressed a letter submitted by head of the Khmer Power Party, Sourn Serey Ratha, on April 8 asking for clarification regarding envelopes Yentieng gave to Division 3 troops in Preah Vihear during the ACU head’s visit to the border province on April 6.
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Manet Returns From US, Dismisses Lawsuit
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, arrived back in Phnom Penh on Monday after two weeks in the U.S. and Canada, deriding a lawsuit filed against him in Los Angeles for wrongful imprisonment that includes a count of “international terrorism.” Lieutenant General Manet, who heads the Defense Ministry’s counterterrorism department, was repeatedly badgered during the Khmer New Year trip, with “Never Manet” protests organized by Cambodian communities convinced that he is his father’s chosen heir.
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Sex, Lies, Audio Tapes and the ACU
It was a hectic day at the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) yesterday, with the nine employees of various nongovernmental organizations summoned after being accused by Khom Chandaraty of encouraging her to lie to police about audio tapes of intimate conversations she now says were between her and Kem Sokha, acting president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. Five separate summonses were issued yesterday following the arrest of an opposition commune chief on Sunday after he said that he had given Ms. Chandaraty’s mother $500 to encourage her daughter to remain silent about allegations that she had had an affair with Mr. Sokha.
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Eight summoned by ACU over Chandaraty’s claims
The Anti-Corruption Unit yesterday summonsed seven members of civil society and one former NGO employee-turned-National Election Committee official in relation to a complaint by CNRP leader Kem Sokha’s purported mistress Khom Chandaraty, who has accused the group, including a UN staffer, of telling her to lie to police. The individuals, including five members of rights group Adhoc; Sally Soun, an employee with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; former senior Adhoc official Ny Chakrya, now deputy secretary-general for the NEC; and women’s rights campaigner Thida Kus, must submit for questioning later this week, ACU President Om Yentieng stated yesterday.
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‘I Am Chut Wutty’ Film Ban Applies to All Public Shows
After plans to screen a documentary about slain environmental activist Chut Wutty at Phnom Penh’s Meta House were canceled at the behest of the Ministry of Culture last week, a ministry official said over the weekend that the film could not be publicly screened anywhere in the country. Sin Chan Saya, director of the Culture Ministry’s department of cinema and cultural diffusion, said the filmmaker—together with any theater owner who screens the film “I Am Chut Wutty”—would be in violation of the law.
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Sokha Sued in Mistress Case as CNRP Official Arrested
After last week abandoning her denials of an affair with deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha but still facing attempts by anti-terrorism police to charge her with prostitution, Khom Chandaraty on Friday sued Mr. Sokha for $300,000 over the alleged sex scandal. The lawsuit led to an opposition commune chief being arrested on Sunday, as opposition leader Sam Rainsy said he believed the CPP had been organizing recent events to “set the stage for its Kangaroo court to prosecute Kem Sokha.”
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Union Leader Pav Sina Dodges Two Complaints Due to Spelling
A day after being hit with a defamation lawsuit from the Ministry of Labor, union leader Pav Sina made an appearance at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday over a more trivial complaint. Mr. Sina said he had received a copy of a summons on Wednesday related to the ministry’s lawsuit, which accuses him and three fellow leaders of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) of several crimes.
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Councillor files action against cops over Um Sam An raid
A CNRP councillor in Siem Reap has filed a demand for legal action against police and military police chiefs for his treatment during a raid on his home last week to arrest CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An. The councillor, Sok Kim Seng, filed the complaint with Provincial Governor Khim Bun Song on Wednesday, targeting Sorth Nady and Por Vannith, the respective police and military police chiefs for Siem Reap, who could not be reached yesterday.
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After Ban, Chut Wutty Film to be Screened in Phnom Penh
After a Wednesday screening of the film “I am Chut Wutty” at Meta House was banned by the Ministry of Fine Arts and Culture, private screenings of the film, as well as alternative means of accessing it, have been announced by its director – including a free screening of the Khmer version of the film today at 4 pm at the Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) office. In addition to today’s screening, which is open to the public, screenings at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) as well as the Flicks Community Movie Houses are planned, according to producer Fran Lambrick.
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Singing Monk Sacked Amid Increase in Serious Crimes
The chief monk of Kompong Speu province last month became the latest senior clergy member to be faced with a sex abuse case in his jurisdiction, with one of his monks jailed for attempting to rape a 9-year-old girl. Coming little more than a year after an ex-monk shot dead his former pagoda chief just a few kilometers away from the pagoda now at the center of the sex abuse allegations, it was a sign that a severe moral sickness was going untreated among the clergymen provincial chief monk Dou Vandoeun had been tasked with managing.
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Families Watch as Land Flattened for Road
Helmeted state security guards on Thursday blocked landowners from entering their plots in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district as heavy machinery razed crude structures and leveled the earth to make way for a hotly disputed road construction project.
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OCIC bulldozing rolls on in spite of dispute
Under the supervision of 50 security guards, construction firm Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) resumed bulldozing land on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula yesterday, despite two families laying claim to the land being cleared. Early yesterday morning, OCIC, run by tycoon Pung Khieu Se, used 10 earthmoving machines to clear the land in the district’s Prek Leap commune to make way for a new road and drainage system for its planned satellite city.
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Thais put freeze on new docs for workers
The Ministry of Labour announced on Wednesday it will delay issuing passports to migrant workers to legally work in Thailand until August at the request of Thai officials. Minister Ith Samheng said workers will be able to obtain their legal documents at One Stop Service or at any of Thailand’s 77 Labour Department locations beginning August 1.
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Union leader, factory spar in court over misspellings
Union leader Pav Sina appeared before Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday in relation to a lawsuit filed by hat factory Southland, but refused to answer questions because his name had been misspelled “Bav Sina” on the summons. Sina, who is the president of Collective Union of Movement of Workers, is being sued because he misspelled the names of two workers in a list of employees at Southland who wanted to form a union, leading to the factory to accuse him of forgery and misinformation.
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Labor Ministry Sues Union Officials
Labor Ministry officials have filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing four union officials of public defamation, insulting public officers and blocking public roads. The court summoned all four to appear for questioning next week.
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Cambodia inches up press freedom report
Cambodia has moved up 11 positions to rank 128th out of 180 in an annual global ranking of press freedom. The 2016 analysis, compiled by Reporters Without Borders and released yesterday, is based on questionnaires completed by in-country experts who assess countries by pluralism, media independence and self-censorship and legislative framework along with research by monitors looking at the dangers faced by journalists in each nation.
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EU urges hastening of communal land titling
Following a trip through Ratanakkiri and Mondulkiri provinces to survey the effectiveness of European Union development spending, the ambassador of the EU delegation to Cambodia yesterday bemoaned the pace of communal land titling in the Kingdom. Speaking to reporters yesterday, ambassador George Edgar noted that indigenous communities’ loss of land to economic and social land concessions “makes it difficult to sustain traditional lifestyles”.
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Press Freedom Ranking Low But Rising
Cambodia ranked 128th in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2015 ranking of press freedom in countries across the world, the watchdog said yesterday on its website. RSF, which has been compiling the rankings yearly since 2002, said press freedom worldwide had seen a disturbing downturn as governments attempted to crack down on print and online news dissemination.
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Communal Land Grant Process Too Slow, Says EU Ambassador
European Union Ambassador George Edgar yesterday criticized the slowness of the communal land title process introduced in 2001 to protect the ancestral forests and farmland of Cambodia’s indigenous groups. Since it was introduced, only a handful of minority groups have secured communal land titles, he said.
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