Searching Result
Found: 15,376
-
Maid to return from Saudi Arabia as deal nears
Consular officials yesterday were working to repatriate a Cambodian maid fleeing what she described as unfair working conditions in Saudi Arabia, even as the Cambodia’s minister of labour was en route to seal a long-awaited deal to open a pipeline of workers to the Gulf nation. Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour said yesterday evening that Labour Minister Ith Samheng was on his way to Saudi Arabia and was “probably” going to conclude a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Saudis for Cambodian workers to be sent there.
Read More -
Railway residents told to stay calm over expressway
Uncertain residents who have protested the lack of information surrounding a planned elevated toll road linking central Phnom Penh and the airport were yesterday urged to remain calm as authorities work out a “solution” for those affected. “Please all people, stay calm, continue your businesses as usual and give the government a chance to consider finding an acceptable solution for all,” a statement from the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation reads. “The plan of constructing the expressway is under study.”
Read More -
Capital woman victim of year's first acid attack
Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district saw the first acid attack of 2016 on Monday night, with police currently hunting a husband accused of assaulting his wife with what is believed to be motorbike battery acid after a marital dispute. According to victim Sum Sokny, 23, she and her husband Nget Phally, 27, had been in the process of getting a divorce. However, when Phally sought to end the proceedings, said district police chief Teng Sino, Sokny “did not agree, therefore an argument started, and he threw the acid and ran away”.
Read More -
During Trial, Trio Claims Innocence in Bride Trafficking Case
All three suspects arrested last year for sending a young woman to China for marriage denied the trafficking charges against them during their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday, claiming to be innocent intermediaries. Dul Chandy, 26; Chor Chhoam, 40; and his wife Boeun Soklin, 34, were arrested in January 2015 after the latest woman they sent to China, 22-year-old Khoeun Am, was sent back to Cambodia by Chinese authorities upon landing and filed a complaint against them.
Read More -
Fumes From Toilets Lead to Mass Faintings at Factory
More than 30 workers fainted at a garment factory in Kandal province over the past two days after inhaling noxious fumes circulated by a ventilation fan located near the facility’s toilets, an official said. Pok Vanthat, who chairs the Labor Ministry’s fainting research and prevention committee, said 12 workers fainted at the Sunstone Garment Enterprise factory in Kandal Stung district on Monday, while a further 19 passed out at the plant on Tuesday.
Read More -
Union Leaders Blast Charges Over Capitol Tours Protest
Four labor leaders who were charged on Monday over their connection to a protest against the Capitol Tours bus company in Phnom Penh said on Tuesday that the legal action failed to account for basic facts, while advocates warned that following through with court proceedings would only stoke further unrest.
Read More -
Facing Threats Over Protests In US, CNRP Seeks Help
Facing threats of retaliation if Prime Minister Hun Sen is met by protests during his first official visit to the U.S. next week, the opposition CNRP said on Monday that it would seek a meeting with government officials this week over security concerns. Mr. Hun Sen issued a warning on Facebook late last month threatening counterdemonstrations in Cambodia if he is greeted by protests during a summit with fellow Asean leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama in California on February 15 and 16.
Read More -
Activists Accuse Officials of Returning Chainsaws to Loggers
Despite last month’s establishment of a high-level government task force charged with rooting out illegal logging, the Prey Long Community Network said on Monday that a recent patrol carried out by more than 180 activists had yielded evidence of continued forest crimes—and collusion between loggers and local forestry officials.
Read More -
Community Network Asks for Help Policing Prey Lang
The Prey Lang Forest Community Network announced a desire to work with the newly established National Commission for Prevention and Investigation of Illegal Logging during a press conference yesterday. Despite the government’s renewed interest in policing illegal deforestation, the Prey Lang Forest Community Network is still concerned about the situation in their forest, which spans four provinces. They have yet to see any action taken against illegal logging by the new national commission, Community Network officials said.
Read More -
Capitol protesters charged over brawl
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged two protesters involved in a bloody scuffle that left scores injured over the weekend, while another four prominent unionists were also charged in a significant expansion of the controversial case. The two protesters were arrested on Saturday morning after members of a tuk-tuk drivers’ association violently dispersed a demonstration by former Capitol Bus Company drivers and their supporters from the Cambodia Labour Confederation over the firing of 45 bus drivers who attempted to start a union.
Read More -
Vietnam border campaigner Sam An vows to return in April
Outspoken Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker Um Sam An yesterday vowed to return to Cambodia in April despite fearing arrest over his prominent role in the CNRP’s campaign to highlight Vietnamese territorial encroachment, which raised the government’s ire last year. Sam An, a dual American-Cambodian citizen, left for the United States last year after months of criticising the government’s border policy and accusing the regime of losing land to Vietnam by using the wrong demarcation maps.
Read More -
Prey Lang network calls for protections in logging crackdown
The Prey Lang Community Network has called on the government to include the protection of the sprawling Prey Lang forest in the remit of the recently established committee to crack down on illegal logging. Speaking at a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday, community members said they welcomed the government initiative to crack down on the timber trade, but said the scope should include crimes at the source, not just raids of warehouses on land concessions.
Read More -
Government Says German Land Rights Funding Came to Natural End
The Ministry of Land Management has denied that failings on its part had anything to do with Germany’s recent decision to end its support for the government’s land rights work after more than 20 years, despite the move’s well-documented connection to Germany’s concerns with the ministry. Germany informed the ministry last year that it would end its support for titling projects and other land rights work once the current phase of cooperation ends in June. In a September 29 letter to the ministry, Friedrich Kitschelt, a state secretary for Germany’s Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, gave several reasons for the decision.
Read More -
US Protest Against PM Gets Green Light
The Cambodia-America Alliance (CAA) re-announced their plan to lead a peaceful protest against Prime Minister Hun Sen during his visit to the United States for next week’s US-ASEAN summit, according to a statement by CAA president Vibol Touch. The demonstration will take place with protection from US authorities, despite discouragements from opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has urged his supporters to heed warnings against organizing by the prime minister. Mr. Touch wrote that political figureheads and party leaders have continued to make attacks and accusations that hinder and prevent Cambodian citizens and residents from participating in peaceful demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Read More -
Protesters Charged while Attackers Go Free
Five Capitol Tours bus drivers and Cambodian Labor Confederation president Ath Thorn face charges of causing violence after a protest on Saturday descended into bloodshed. Roughly 50 Capitol bus drivers had gathered for a protest near O’Russey Market on Saturday when they were set upon by a group of tuk-tuk drivers armed with hammers and sticks, according to videotapes of the clash. Several of the bus drivers were savagely beaten while police stood by and watched. One bloodied bus driver can be seen in a video released by Fresh News being struck repeatedly with a hammer by one of the assailants. The bus drivers have been protesting since last month over the firings of 40 Capitol employees who attempted to unionize last year. Saturday’s protest turned violent when the protesters attempted to block a bus from leaving, after which the group of tuk-tuk drivers, wearing motorcycle helmets and heavy jackets, attacked. So far, none of the attackers have been prosecuted. Instead, the protesters are the ones facing legal penalties.
Read More -
Six Charged After Attack on Capitol Bus Drivers
Leaders of the country’s most prominent independent labor confederation were among six people charged on Monday over a protest that was violently dispersed by a group of tuk-tuk drivers outside the Phnom Penh office of the Capitol Tours bus company on Saturday, according to a court statement.
Read More -
Thai cops arrest third vendor for market riot
A third Cambodian vendor was arrested by Thai police following a violent riot at a border market earlier last week. Chream Chamroeun, 32, was charged with causing physical injury and obstructing authorities after being arrested on Friday in the Long Keur market, according to Bun Sok Vibol, a Cambodian consular official in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand. Chamroeun was released on bail yesterday.
Read More -
Deported activist Gonzalez-Davidson to demand to attend trial
In a press release by the conservation NGO Mother Nature yesterday, the environmental group dismissed last week’s charges brought against founder Alex Gonzalez-Davidson and two other co-founders as “totally without foundation” and said Gonzalez-Davidson will request that the interior minister allow him back into the country to stand trial. Gonzalez-Davidson, who was deported in February of last year, was charged along with Sok Chantra and Prom Dhammajat as an accomplice to the same alleged crime that saw three of the group’s activists jailed in August 2015 for their anti-sand dredging activities.
Read More -
Protesting Capitol bus drivers attacked
A bloody scuffle in Phnom Penh on Saturday left scores injured after protesting bus drivers and their supporters were brutally set upon by a rival association armed with sticks, metal bars and hammers. Police arrested two protesters – former Capitol bus driver Norn Van, and Cambodia Labour Confederation member Ros Sipha – but none of the alleged attackers.
Read More -
Violence Breaks Out at Capitol Tours Drivers Demonstration
A band of tuk-tuk drivers wearing motorbike helmets descended on sacked drivers protesting outside the Capitol Tours bus company on Saturday, beating the demonstrators until they disbanded as police stood by. At least 14 people were injured in the attack outside the firm’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district, according to rights groups. While none of the attackers were arrested, police arrested a protesting bus driver and an official from a supporting labor association.
Read More
Generously Supported by
