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In Coverage of Land Dispute, A Publisher’s Interests Served
While local media have mostly ignored Decho Aphivat commune, the Khmer Times, an English-language newspaper that started up last year, has become fixated with the area, publishing more than a dozen articles about the conflict here.
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Families Renew Call for Help in Land Dispute
Representatives of 29 families involved in a land dispute with the Defense Ministry in Phnom Penh visited the National Assembly on Thursday, seeking a response to a petition they submitted last month asking for intervention.
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Four years of hell at sea
Like many Cambodians before him, Sopheap*, 29, moved away from his home country in search of work and a better life in neighbouring Thailand. His brother was working in construction and suggested he come join him. Sopheap agreed, and left his home in Kampong Cham’s Prey Chhor district. He went through the motions: He arranged to be brought to Thailand with a broker, and planned to join his brother working in construction. But his pursuit of happiness abruptly ended once he was in the Land of Smiles. After losing contact with his brother, Sopheap was offered work on a fishing boat, instead. He accepted, despite never having worked as a fisherman before.
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New Election Body to Meet Japanese, European Union Diplomats
Less than two weeks after it was established, the reformed National Election Committee will formally convene today for the first time to meet with delegations from Japan and the European Union, two of the biggest past contributors to electoral reform in Cambodia.
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IOM Raising Funds to Return Rescued Fishermen
As 58 Cambodian fishermen rescued from slavery in Indonesia await their travel documents to return home, the intergovernmental body organizing their return is attempting to raise money to pay for their travel because the Cambodian government is not offering any funds for their repatriation.
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Union asks Japanese to examine ‘assaults’
A Cambodian labour union this week sent a letter to the Japanese Embassy, asking for help dealing with reported violence against workers at a Japanese-owned garment factory in Kampong Speu province. Chea Mony, president of Free Trade Union, yesterday sent a letter to the embassy, asking their officials to handle complaints of assaults against FTU workers at Hirota Garment Co.
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A tale of two titans
One week ago, fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath was arrested in Vietnam after almost five months on the run. He was swiftly charged with possession of weapons and premeditated murder for allegedly masterminding the killing of Shimmex Group chairman Ung Meng Cheu, and sent immediately to Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison. The action taken against the once-powerful okhna flies in stark contrast to sluggish efforts made to detain former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith – despite widespread rumours that he remains in Cambodia – after he shot three female garment workers during a 2012 demonstration.
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First Nauru Refugee Agrees To Resettle In Cambodia
Among the hundreds of refugees Australia is holding on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru, the Cambodian Interior Ministry said Wednesday that it has found its first volunteer to attempt to make a new life in Cambodia.
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Trust the NEC, Rainsy says
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has lauded the Kingdom’s controversial new National Election Committee (NEC) and called on the public to trust a body he assured was both independent and neutral. Rainsy, the president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), delivered his message of positivity to hundreds of supporters in Kampong Chhnang on Monday, making the speech available on his social media page yesterday.
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Cambodian migrants killed in Thai accident
Four Cambodian women and children were killed when the truck they were riding in overturned in Thailand’s Chonburi province at around 1am yesterday as the illegal migrant workers were trying to evade Thai police. Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said the accident also killed the truck’s driver and his assistant, and left several others injured.
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City Hall considering May Day rally
Phnom Penh City Hall expressed uncertainty yesterday as to whether it would be able to allow a planned 3,000-person labour union rally on May 1, in observation of International Labour Day. Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) president Pav Sina yesterday said the thousands-strong demonstration will meet in the capital’s Freedom Park, before delivering petitions to the United States and European Union embassies. Petitions will ask for better monitoring of labour violations such as the excessive use of short-term contracts.
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Koh Kong Activists Threatened With Eviction Over Dredging Row
A village chief in Koh Kong province is threatening to have an environmental rights NGO thrown out of the area for alleged incitement if protests it is involved in against a company dredging sand off the coast escalate.
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Judge Questions 10 Dissident Group Members
Ten jailed members of the Khmer National Liberation Front, an advocacy group that vocally opposes the ruling CPP, were questioned at the Court of Appeal in Phnom Penh on Tuesday over their bid to secure bail.
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Locals turn against activists
Locals in Koh Kong province have written to the provincial authorities urging them to expel activists from local NGO Mother Nature who have been conducting a campaign of direct action against sand dredging firms that the NGO accuses of breaking the law and damaging the environment. The letter, sent by a group from Koh Srolav village to the Koh Kong provincial government, lays out the villagers’ concerns: “On April 10 Mother Nature staffers came to incite the locals, divide us and disturb public order. They disrespected us and blocked the development of the village. We have help from the company to construct buildings as compensation,” the letter reads.
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Workers return from holiday to closed factory
More than 100 workers at a Phnom Penh garment printing factory protested yesterday after they returned from the Khmer New Year holiday to find their workplace shuttered. The locked doors of Meanchey district’s Fu Kuy factory, which employs more than 120 people, were management’s only indication to workers of its bankruptcy and closure, said Ly Veng, president of the firm’s branch of the Workers Union Federation. “Closing without issuing notice makes it difficult for workers, it means they will lose benefits and job seniority,” Veng said yesterday. “We ask the ministries concerned in the matter to take care of this.”
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UDG issuing eviction threats again: villagers
Security guards armed with axes, clubs and hammers have reportedly threatened villagers with eviction at the Union Development Group (UDG) site in Koh Kong province just weeks after the Chinese company pledged to peacefully resolve the dispute. About 50 security officials arrived at the villagers’ homes in Koh Kong’s Koh Sdech commune over the weekend to measure their land and issue an unconditional one-month ultimatum to leave or be moved on by force, village representative Nai Vibol said yesterday.
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Asylum Seekers On Fast Track to Cambodia, Group Says
As many as five of the hundreds of asylum seekers Australia is holding on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru have agreed to be the first to take up an offer from Cambodia to resettle here, according to a refugee advocacy group.
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What direction is civil society space taking in Cambodia?
As Cambodians return from celebrating the New Year, new threats to democracy and fundamental freedoms seem to be in the air. Despite the repeated promises from the government to engage in significant reforms, including more cooperation with civil society, the latest statements and actions suggest the opposite. The recent adoption of the election laws seems to confirm a well-known pattern: crucial pieces of legislation are passed without meaningful public consultations.
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Pass the union law: Hun Sen
A controversial statement released by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday calls for the quick passage of a trade union law, which union advocates say violates international labour conventions. The statement, which was signed on April 10 but distributed this week, was released ahead of International Labour Day on May 1. It emphasises the need to protect unionised workers’ rights being trampled, including by unions themselves, but advocates warn that legislation may have the opposite effect.
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Nauru refugees fast-tracked, flight nixed: advocate
Australia has reportedly cancelled a planned flight intended to ferry the first batch of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia due to “logistical errors” after Cambodian officials on Sunday denied any refugees were expected in the Kingdom in the coming days. Up to five asylum seekers in the Australian detention centre on the tiny island have accepted cash payments of thousands of dollars to have their refugee status determinations fast-tracked in order to be eligible to come to Cambodia, a refugee advocate said yesterday.
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