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NGOs Offer Own Reform Package
A coalition of NGOs yesterday issued proposed drafts of a new constitutional amendment governing the National Election Committee, with one signatory saying the drafts, if implemented, would establish a “minimum” threshold of independence and transparency in the Kingdom’s electoral process.
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The ‘Hell’ of Abuse in China
Shrinking down into her chair, an 18-year-old woman stared at her lap and wept yesterday after recounting her narrowing eight months as a trafficked bride in China, which ended in January when she escaped from her husband.
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CNC Staffer Pulled Gun: Plaintiff
Cambodian News Channel’s (CNC) deputy director appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday to be questioned for allegedly putting a gun to the head of the planning and assignment editor of sister news channels CTN and My TV last month.
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Abuse of Cambodian Women in China Increases Sevenfold
After eight months of confinement and rape – and two forced abortions – Ratha, then 17, says she escaped from the home of the Chinese man she had been sold to and found her way to the Cambodian Consulate in Guangzhou.
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Wealthy Family Abused Child Workers, Police Say
The patriarch of a wealthy family and two of his employees were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly holding captive an 18-year-old girl for eight years and beating her 12-year-old brother, who was also held captive, according to police.
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New Hearings Begin
Evidentiary hearings in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Case 002/02 could come hot on the heels of the August 7 verdict in Case 002/01, starting as early as “last September”, parties to the proceedings confirmed at the case’s initial hearing yesterday.
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Maid, Boy ‘Rescued’ from Home
Police from the Ministry of Interior are questioning two people over claims that their 18-year-old maid was raped and her 10-year-old brother abused, according to police and human rights officials.
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Locals and NGO staffer questioned
About 150 ethnic Kouy villagers gathered outside Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday to protest the questioning of eight villagers and an NGO staff member for allegedly inciting villagers in Tbeng Meanchey district to destroy 36 tons of sugarcane.
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Suspect Convicted for Selling Women Into Brothels
A Cambodian woman who brokered a deal that saw two other Cambodian women sold into a brothel in China was sentenced to two years in prison by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
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Defense Once Again Seeks Gov’t Witnesses at KR Tribunal
Initial hearings opened yesterday in the second phase of the trial against two of the most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, who are being tried on charges ranging from genocide to forced labor and other crimes against humanity.
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Editor Pulled Gun Over Staff Quarrel, Colleague Says
A dispute between staff members at two of the country’s major television networks, both owned by mogul Kith Meng, sparked an incident in which a news editor held a gun to the head of another executive inside the headquarters of Cambodian News Channel (CNC), according to the alleged victim.
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Man Sentenced to 5 years for Raping Girlfriend
A 21-year-old man was yesterday found guilty of raping his girlfriend and sentenced to five years in prison by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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Two Years’ Prison for China Sex-Slave Sale
A Cambodian human trafficker was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, after it found her guilty of arranging for two women to be sold to Chinese men as sex slaves.
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Kompong Cham Sandal Factory Ends Strike After Compromise
Workers at a Taiwanese-owned sandal factory in Kompong Cham province on strike since last week over an eight-point list of demands agreed to go back to work yesterday after reaching a deal with management that included a monthly lunch stipend.
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Students Give Prison Time for Raping Girl, 14
Two students were convicted yesterday of raping an underage girl in a forest last year in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district.
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Workers Seek Pay After Fire
A day after the Chang Feng garment factory burned down in the capital’s Por Senchey district, most of the roughly 900 employees – now effectively out of work – gathered yesterday to demand pay.
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TV Executive Accused of Pulling Gun on Colleague
The news editor of the country’s only 24-hour news television channel will be questioned in court today after allegedly pointing a gun at a colleague, according to the complainant’s lawyer.
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Demonstrators Say Jobs in Japan Promised
Hundreds of Cambodians hoping to migrate to Japan to work in the electronics industry yesterday protested outside an NGO that they claim conned them out of $200 each with promises of jobs.
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Wages Do Not Compute: ILO
NGOs say the Ministry of Labor’s use of its own method for determining the garment industry’s minimum wage is risking a repeat of the tensions that exploded in violent protests in January, when authorities killed at least five people.
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Soldier Singled Out for Fatal Shooting Charged
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces soldier was charged yesterday by Preah Vihear Provincial Court and held in pretrial detention for the fatal shooting of a teenage soybean farmer.
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