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S Korea asked to better conditions for workers
Cambodian made a rare show of defending its migrant workforce in South Korea on Friday, calling attention to a labor scheme that has come under fire for perpetuating exploitation and abuse.
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CPP lawmakers push through $3.8 billion national budget
The National Assembly on Friday approved the $3.8 billion budget for 2015, despite opposition lawmakers, who have slammed the draft budget for its lack of details, abstaining from the vote. In the morning, the ruling CPP voted to bring the draft bill to a debate, with 65 of its parliamentarians voting in favor while 47 CNRP lawmakers abstained from the vote. By the end of the daylong debate, just 19 opposition members remained in the assembly chamber when the ruling party voted to approve the budget at 6 p.m.
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UN looks to reach out in Jarai case
Two ethnic Jarai Montagards claiming to have fled religious persecution in Vietnam may have been arrested by local police in Ratanakkiri province, a rights worker has said.
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Brides come home from China after suffering domestic violence
When Un Sreyna sold her daughter to a Chinese groom in China for $1,000, the 49-year-old mother of five thought she was giving her then-22-year-old daughter a chance at a better life. But the daughter, now 25, returned to Phnom Penh on Sunday after fleeing her abusive husband, who often beat her with a stick or rolled up floor mat.
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Kem Ley hopes the diverse groups will be a boon at grassroots level
Political analyst Kem Ley plans to create a diverse set of independent political parties in the new year, tackling what he says is an autocratic “disease” infecting both the ruling party and the opposition.
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New parties on horizon
Political analyst Kem Ley plans to create a diverse set of independent political parties in the new year, tackling what he says is an autocratic “disease” infecting both the ruling party and the opposition. Using his newly founded “social network” Khmer for Khmer as a springboard, Ley will register the parties at the communal, district and provincial levels of government, as well as create an Islamic party and an ethnic minority party, he told the Post last week. The idea is to start with five parties in different provinces and then potentially expand.
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Vietnam asks Cambodia to send back Montagnards
Vietnamese authorities have asked Cambodian police to arrest and deport 16 Montagnards who recently crossed into Ratanakkiri province, according to the provincial police chief, who said his officers intended to comply with the request. Thirteen members of the indigenous minority, concentrated in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, are currently hiding in the northern province’s Lumphat district, having fled across the border over the past month.
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Scores of soldiers threaten mass resignation in response to land dispute
More than 100 soldiers in Pursat province have threatened to resign en masse after being ordered to bulldoze their own lands, which are claimed by tycoon Try Pheap’s MDS import export company.
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Korean police say Cambodian Bride killed for insurance
South Korean police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of murdering his pregnant Cambodian wife in order to collect about $8.5 million from 26 life-insurance policies he had taken out on her, according to a report in Thursday’s Korea JoongAng Daily. The 45-year-old man, identified only by the common surname “Lee,” is alleged to have fed sleeping pills to his wife before deliberately driving his car into a parked truck while she was in the passenger seat, the article says.
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Bokor mountain investigated
The Culture and Fine Arts minister said yesterday that she will assign a team to investigate the alleged religious activities and living arrangements of Vietnamese nationals on Bokor mountain, close to the border in Kampot province.
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NEC official says opposition assembly swap would be legal
National Election Committee (NEC) Secretary-General Tep Nytha said Wednesday that imprisoned CNRP official Meach Sovannara could be named as one of the opposition’s 55 lawmakers even though he stands charged with insurrection. Mr. Sovannara was arrested earlier this month on charges laid by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court over a violent July protest that has seen more than a dozen CNRP officials and members imprisoned, with all but three since released.
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AUC to make law to protect sources
The Anti-Corruption Unit is drafting a new law to solely protect whistleblowers reporting corruption in the Kingdom, ACU chief Om Yentieng revealed after an hour-long meeting with the parliament’s anti-corruption commission yesterday.
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Eviction threats petitioned
Villagers threatened with forced evictions in two districts of the capital marched yesterday to government offices and protested against the impending loss of land.
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Deadline nears, community braces for eviction
As the deadline set by City Hall for residents of a village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district to vacate the area draws near, about 100 of them delivered a petition to the National Assembly on Wednesday in a last ditch effort to convince lawmakers to intervene on their behalf. The petition was delivered to CNRP lawmakers Chea Poch and Chan Cheng outside the Assembly building, and also to Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet, as the villagers marched past Wat Botum park.
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Family in hiding names price
A teenager whose father and sister were arrested last week over a land dispute with a politically connected company said yesterday that his family will vacate their home for $250,000.
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Trafficked Cambodian rescued
A trafficked Cambodian woman was taken into Malaysia immigration police custody after a raid on Karaoke bars on Saturday night, Cambodian embassy official confirmed yesterday.
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Commission calls for review of land concessions in Koh Kong
Three parliamentarians from the National Assembly’s human rights commission, led by CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang, returned Tuesday from a two-day visit to four communities in Koh Kong province locked in land disputes with companies holding private land concessions. Mr. Chhay Eang, who was accompanied by CPP lawmakers Loy Sophat and Lork Kheng, said the purpose of the visit was to talk to families affected by the disputes in Sre Ambel, Botum Sakor and Kiri Sakor districts.
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Court cites misunderstanding in linking monk to dissident
As a beaming Luon Sovath walked into the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for his sedition trial Tuesday, dozens of flag-waving supporters lining the sidewalk called for the charges against the activist monk to be dropped, while a throng of reporters pressed in on him. In September, Luon Sovath was summoned to appear in court, along with U.S.-based dissident Sourn Serey Ratha, to face charges of incitement to commit a felony, plotting to commit an attack and disrupting last year’s national elections.
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City bids adieu to Sambo
One evening next week. After the sun goes down and the temperature cools, Cambodia’s most famous elephant will be quietly ushered into a modified shipping container.
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Med students furious over coming fee hike
Medical students are up in arms about a tuition hike that would double costs and prevent some from gaining their degree, they told the Post yesterday.
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