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Residents Protest Road Planned Near OCIC Development Site
About 50 Phnom Penh residents gathered On Sunday to rally against a planned road on Chroy Changva peninsula that will run alongside a massive $3 billion development project. The 12-meter-wide road will be located just 100 meters behind National Road 6A. Municipal authorities insist the road is meant to alleviate traffic, but residents say they believe the road is strictly for the sake of the 387-hectare satellite city being constructed by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC).
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12 Years On, Gov’t Handling of Chea Vichea’s Murder Blasted
tanding on the sidewalk in front of Phnom Penh’s Wat Lanka, where union leader Chea Vichea was gunned down 12 years ago to the day, opposition lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang said on Friday that the lack of transparency in the investigation into the murder was still stoking suspicion of government involvement in the killing.
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Jailed Senator Questioned Over Rainsy Facebook Case
Senator Hong Sok Hour was questioned without a lawyer on Friday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court over a case against opposition leader Sam Rainsy involving a video posted to his Facebook page showing a doctored treaty between Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Villagers March Into Commune Offices, Hope to Reclaim Land
Members of more than 550 families embroiled in a land dispute with two Thai-owned sugar companies in Koh Kong province marched through four communes on Wednesday, delivering petitions to the chiefs of each.
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Borei Keila Ceremony Descends Into Chaos
A ceremony arranged by Phnom Penh officials to mark their final offers of compensation for hundreds of people who have spent years protesting their eviction from the Borei Keila neighborhood descended into chaos on Tuesday as activists stormed the meeting, leading to scuffles with police. The 154 families are the last to be offered compensation among a larger group of residents who were evicted by the Phanimex company after it was awarded development rights in 2003. While the powerful conglomerate won the contract on the condition it build 10 apartment blocks to house the residents, it ultimately constructed only eight blocks, leaving hundreds of families to squat in filthy, slum-like conditions at the site.
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Gov visits Boeung Trabek following demolitions
Following Tuesday’s demolition of six homes in Village 1, a community on the southern shore of the capital’s Boeung Trabek reservoir, Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday addressed residents, promising a solution to a largely sceptical audience. Speaking yesterday afternoon, Socheatvong said he would consider the community’s requests and deploy authorities to properly document residents’ information, ostensibly to better manage their relocation and compensation.
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HRW slams ASEAN invites to US summit
Human Rights Watch has called on US President Barack Obama to make sure that human rights are at the top of the agenda when the US leader hosts the heads of ASEAN at a summit in California next month. In a letter sent to the White House, dated January 19, the New York-based rights group calls out several authoritarian leaders across ASEAN that they say are responsible for “grievous human rights abuses [and] war crimes”.
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Meetings over law leave unions wanting
Unions yesterday called for further discussion of the draft trade union law after a bipartisan committee tasked with examining the controversial legislation concluded on Tuesday having agreed to few substantive changes. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, 14 unions and rights groups issued a statement characterizing the committee as “producing unsatisfactory results in response to the unions’ proposals”.
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Employer body wants union law toughened
Cambodia's employers yesterday called for the draft trade union law to be toughened prior to a meeting with a government committee tasked with examining the controversial legislation. But the employers’ recommendations were blasted by unions for threatening their right to assemble, while drawing criticism from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, who alleged they had been excluded from the meeting.
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Lack of Lady Leaders Hinders Labor Movement
Like other garment workers across the country, Chheang Thida works long hours for little pay. But her biggest complaint about conditions at her clothing factory is the state of its toilets. “They are unsanitary and disgusting,” said the 37-year-old industry veteran. “Nobody ever cleans them.”
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Try Pheap Gets New ELC Amid Freeze, Governor Says
Timber magnate Try Pheap and businessman Lim Bunna were granted economic land concessions (ELCs) on property inside a wildlife sanctuary confiscated from two other companies for violating their government contracts, a provincial governor told a meeting of officials on Monday. Such a move would fly in the face of a freeze on new ELC licenses that Prime Minister Hun Sen laid down in 2012, according to spokesman for the premier’s cabinet.
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Structures by Phnom Penh canal flattened
A collection of houses and other structures belonging to nine families living alongside a canal in the capital’s Russey Keo district was destroyed yesterday by a large group of men sent by local authorities. The Beung Salang villagers had been previously told to vacate a zone within 15-20 metres of the 3-kilometre-long Bak Touk canal to make way for a dredging project City Hall plans to undertake, district officials said.
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Union Officials Released on Bail Following Clash
Five union officials arrested last week following a clash with a rival association in Kompong Speu province were released on bail from prison last night, according to their boss, as the provincial government seeks to smooth relations within the garment industry. Pav Sina, head of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW), which sent its officials to support hundreds of workers protesting for better conditions at the Hong Kong-owned Agile Sweater factory in Chbar Mon City last week, said the five were released around 6:30 p.m.
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Rights worker alleges threat amid inquiry
A rights group official said he was threatened for looking into a December homicide case in Pursat province that left one woman dead and her brother injured. Provincial Adhoc coordinator Phourng Sophea said he found evidence suggesting the innocence of Ouch Bunleng, who was arrested on December 24 for being one of four men involved in the deadly robbery of a Wing kiosk in Phnom Kravanh district 11 days earlier.
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Business Group Airs Union Law Concerns
Some of the country’s top business leaders laid out their main concerns with a controversial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakers on Monday, including a stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace.
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Five Boeng Kak Families Ordered to Destroy Homes
Five families in Phnom Penh’s embattled Boeng Kak neighborhood have been given 15 days to demolish parts of their homes that encroach on the city’s land, according to an official order received by the residents on Friday. The notice, signed by Daun Penh district governor Kuoch Chamroeun on December 28 but delivered to the residents of Srah Chak commune’s Village 22 on Friday, orders the families “to remove new houses of wood, zinc and concrete which were built to grab land belonging to City Hall.”
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Preah Vihear land disputants told to desist
Three community representatives, threatened with legal action by Preah Vihear provincial authorities on Friday, yesterday said they will continue to lead some 200 families in protest over disputed land in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot commune. Following years of protests – which most recently saw 100 people representing 253 families demonstrate in Phnom Penh on Thursday and file a petition at the Ministry of Interior – Preah Vihear authorities warned of legal action in a notice dated January 15 that named Phan Thoeun, Kan Ngem and Kin Chantha as initiators of the protests.
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World Bank Gets Closer to Lifting Five-Year-Long Freeze on Lending
The World Bank has reached the appraisal stage of a proposed project to furnish poor families with new land, moving it another step closer to ending a five-year lending freeze on Cambodia by March.
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Trilateral Agreement Signed To Combat Human Trafficking
Cambodia signed an agreement with Vietnam and Laos during a meeting on Thursday to enhance efforts to fight human trafficking—with Vietnam reporting at the meeting that police discovered nearly 90 human trafficking rings along its border with Cambodia last year.
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UN Envoy Slams NGO Law in Report
The advent of Cambodia’s much-criticized NGO law was among the top “troubling” developments to take place across the globe last year, the U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association said in a report released Friday. “2015: The Year in Assembly and Association Rights,” by U.N. envoy Maina Kiai—who visited Cambodia for two days in late November but said he was not welcomed by the government—focuses on laws, policies and state forces that restricted “civic space” worldwide last year.
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