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Police Arrest Twelve in Raid on Illegal Lottery in Phnom Penh
Police in Phnom Penh arrested 12 people on Monday during a raid on a house in Sen Sok district from which they had been running a sophisticated illegal lottery operation, officials said Tuesday. Led by Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Kham Sophary, 10 municipal minor crimes and Toek Khla commune police officers made the arrests at about 5 p.m., according to commune police chief Sok Sophal.
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Youths Need More Skills To Thrive in Asean, Analyst Says
WASHINGTON DC—As Asean heads toward economic integration, the younger generations will need more skills to compete, an Asean expert says. There will be more opportunities region-wide, but more competition, as well. “They should foresee their future, with regional jobs outside the country, rather than just opportunities inside the country,” Seang Sopagna, head of the Cambodia-Asean International Institute, said in an interview. “But they should be equipped with more capacity, in order for them to compete.”
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Mine, UXO Explosions Casualties Up in 2014
Both the number of accidents and casualties caused by old landmines and other unexploded ordnance rose by nearly 40 percent last year, according to the latest government data, though the two figures were still the second lowest on record following years of progress in demining.
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Cambodian Garment Workers Forced to Work Under Terrible Conditions
After several reports of labour rights violations in Cambodia’s garment industry, Human Rights Watch is calling on the government to improve labour laws via facilitating transparency.
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Gov’t Airs Film Accusing Kem Sokha of Coup Conspiracy
Ahead of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha’s scheduled court questioning on Wednesday, a television station controlled by the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen aired on Sunday night a film produced by the government that builds a case that Mr. Sokha plotted a coup d’etat.
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Five busted over illegal fishing gear in standoff
Five Vietnamese nationals who were found to be using illegal electric fishing devices were arrested yesterday on the Tonle Sap lake, on the border of Siem Reap and Battambang provinces, with authorities also seizing three boats. Fisheries Administration boats yesterday came across about 30 boats using the devices, which kill mass numbers of fish, and endanger local fisheries, said Prin Savin, Siem Reap’s provincial fisheries administrative director. Some of the boats began ramming the Fisheries Administration boats, but stopped and scattered when armed authorities arrived in the area.
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Cambodian Students Trapped in Yemen Capital as Battles Rage
Eight Cambodian nationals studying in Yemen remained trapped in the capital of Sanaa on Monday as sectarian violence continued to consume the country, officials said.
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Putting women in the driver's seat in Cambodia
How can one push for greater political participation of women in a patriarchal state that believes government is a fraternity? The Cambodian Committee to Promote Women in Politics faced this exact problem when it first started its work to encourage women to get more politically involved in the early 2000s. Back then, CPWP struggled to convince women to become more “involved in decision-making at the national and local levels” not only because of opposition from men, but also because some of these women didn’t see that as their role in politics.
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Thais expand health benefits for migrant workers
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand are now reportedly able to access the same healthcare benefits as Thai nationals following the implementation of new regulations, although rights organisations warned yesterday that problems will persist for Cambodians across the border, the majority of whom remain undocumented. Under new measures announced by Thailand’s Public Health Ministry and in force since April 1, migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar are now covered for even more medical conditions than under previous healthcare arrangements.
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Timber by the numbers
Cambodia's foremost logging baron exported more than 100,000 cubic metres of timber from Sihanoukville Port last year, likely including a species protected by an international treaty to which the Kingdom is a signatory, an analysis by Global Witness of leaked export records suggests. The data, obtained by the Post from a source in the transportation industry, show the Try Pheap Group exported an estimated 107,832 cubic metres of timber via the port, an amount the London-based NGO said could be worth between $55 million and $123 million, based on documents it obtained as part of an investigation last year.
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In Cambodia, Domestic Workers Get Organized
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (WOMENSENEWS)-- Hai Somaly was just 10 years old when she started working as a domestic worker. For the equivalent of about 13 cents a day she would cook, clean and take care of her employer's children. When her employer was displeased with her work, she says he would often hit her with a shoe. Fourteen years later, Somaly is working for a different family. She's making $75 a month to wake up at 5 a.m. and start her daily duties of cooking, cleaning and washing. That's significantly less than the roughly $130 a month earned by full-time workers in Cambodia's clothing industry, whose earnings are just above the poverty wage, which is about $120.
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Parties discuss NEC
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng yesterday met to discuss the selection of members for the new National Election Committee, but declined to comment on the substance of their talks. Instead, the majority and minority party leaders in the National Assembly said that their discussions had gone smoothly according to the “culture of dialogue” and told reporters to wait until the assembly votes on the committee’s nine members on April 13.
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Ministry Completes Probe of Court Director
The Justice Ministry on Monday said it had completed its investigation into bribery allegations against ousted Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei but refused to reveal the results.
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Montagnard Asylum Seekers Resume Crossing Into Ratanakkiri
After more than a month of no new reports of Montagnard asylum seekers fleeing Vietnam for Cambodia, 11 arrived in Ratanakkiri province late Sunday night, the U.N. and a rights group said Monday.
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UN investigating possible refugee deaths
After 11 more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam reportedly arrived in Ratanakkiri province late on Sunday evening, the United Nations yesterday said it was looking into unconfirmed reports from local villagers that eight others had been found dead in the province. According to an ethnic Jarai villager who has been helping the asylum seekers survive in the forest, and who declined to be named for fear of reprisals, the group who arrived over the weekend consists of 10 men and one woman, who say “they were mistreated in Vietnam and escaped”.
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New summonses in old dispute in R’kiri
Four ethnic Jarai village representatives in Ratanakkiri province, including the wife of a rights group activist, were ordered to appear at court today or face arrest on charges of defamation against Keat Kolney, the sister of Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon. The case is part of a long-running land dispute first brought to the court in 2007. At that time, more than 40 families of the Jarai indigenous community in O’Yadav district’s Pate commune sued Kolney for allegedly seizing 450 hectares of land without proper compensation. For nearly eight years the court has not taken action to pursue the communities’ claim.
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Anti-‘pet meat’ rally shooed away by Phnom Penh police
Pit bulls, Pomeranians and their respective people were ejected from a capital park, and again from another nearby public space yesterday, as they tried to hold a march to raise awareness of the “pet meat” trade in Cambodia. A group of about 25 dog owners with at least 30 dogs yesterday gathered at Neak Banh Teuk Park, or Dragon Park, in front of the statue of the late King Norodom Sihanouk at about 4pm yesterday. The pack intended to walk their dogs to Wat Botum park for a speech, and to circulate a petition for a law banning the trade of dogs and cats for consumption, an industry they say is cruel to animals and pet owners, and is rife with disease from dog and cat meat.
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City Hall Shuts Down Rally Against Consumption of Dog Meat
A planned demonstration against the consumption of dog meat was shut down before it could begin in Phnom Penh on Sunday after city authorities said the group did not have permission to gather. More than 30 people, and an equal number of dogs, met behind Independence Monument in Neak Banh Teuk Park to take part in the worldwide event.
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Parties set to select members of NEC
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng today to discuss the selection of candidates for a reformed election body, officials said yesterday. The leaders will discuss the final appointees for the eight partisan positions and the ninth “neutral” member of the National Election Committee (NEC), after receiving at least 20 applications, a CPP spokesman said.
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Hun Sen Touts NGO Law as Bulwark Against Terrorist Financing
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Sunday that lawmakers must pass a controversial law on NGOs in order to prevent funds from terrorist groups such as al-Qaida from seeping into the country. After years of silence on the law, which NGOs fear the government could use to go after its critics, Mr. Hun Sen said he hoped to have a draft in front of the Council of Ministers—the final step before reaching the National Assembly—as early as next month.
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