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‘Abused’ Maid Awaits Return
A woman who was taking part in a pilot scheme to place Cambodian maids in Singapore is waiting to be repatriated after being molested at her employer’s home and allegedly mistreated by a recruitment firm, she said yesterday.
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School Boss Arrested in Sting
The founder of an informal English-language school who police allege allowed pedophiles access to children under his care was arrested in Siem Reap yesterday in an operation involving four different government agencies and an NGO.
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Company Warned Over Slow Development of ELCs
Provincial government officials in Stung Treng have warned companies granted economic land concessions (ELCs) in the province to fulfill their promised development plans or face losing their rights to the land.
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Chaining Toddler ‘Not Serious Abuse’: Official
Chaining a 4-year-old to a post inside a house for eight hours per day does not constitute serious abuse, Koh Kong’s police chief said yesterday, explaining why a woman who subjected her adoptive daughter to such treatment for two years was not arrested and charged.
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Wealthy Residents Protest Lake Reclamation
About 30 residents of a planned community on the eastern out-strikes of Phnom Penh gathered around the picturesque lake that forms the center of their neighborhood yesterday to prevent its developer, a former opposition lawmaker, from reclaiming the land to construct condos.
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Cintri Drivers Strike for Second Time This Year
Phnom Penh’s trash collectors have again gone on strike over salaries and conditions in a move that could see them stop clearing the city’s street of garbage for an extended period for the second time this year.
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Thai Health Checks Concern
On the road back to legal employment in Thailand, Cambodian migrant workers are being made to undergo check-ups that have them cough, strip and give blood and urine samples to prove they are physically and mentally sound enough to work in the country.
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Boeng Kak Families Ask ACU to Probe Senator’s Land Sale
Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood lodged a formal complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) yesterday, asking it to investigate 12 current and former government officials and Senator Lao Meng Khin over the Senator’s plans to sell land they say was stolen from them.
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Face-Off Turns Violent
At least one person was beaten unconscious and more than a dozen injured yesterday in Kompong Chhnang province’s Kompong Tralach district during violent clashes between villagers and armed representatives of a company owned by the wife of Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem.
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Accusation Prompts Fresh Cintri Walkout
Hundreds of workers of Phnom Penh’s sole refuse collection company went on strike yesterday to demand better working conditions after a driver was accused of stealing petrol from the employer.
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Tensions Flare in Minister’s Wife’s Land Dispute
Kompong Tralach district, Kompong Chhnang province – about 100 military and provincial police descended upon the rural village of Lor Peang yesterday morning, acting on what they said was a court order to arrest three villagers standing in the new way of an agro-development project.
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Phan Imex Dispute to Court
A commune chief and nine villagers accused of trespassing on development firm Phan Imex’s land in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district have been summoned to appear in the provincial court.
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Law Pass in Senate, Minus SRP
The Senate yesterday passed three laws in a haft-day session, it said in a statement, despite a boycott by Sam Rainsy Party senators.
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Rural women encouraged to boost online presence
Young women in Cambodia will begin a quest this month to get their voices heard thanks to a new scheme led by human rights campaigners.
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Villagers ‘Banned From Land’
About 100 families in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samrang district have sought intervention from rights group Adhoc to help resolve a dispute involving land they say the government granted them in 2006.
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Sans Opposition, Senate Passes Three More Laws
The Senate yesterday approved the $26.6 billion 2014 to 2018 National Strategic Development Plan in its fifth session since last year’s national election, as senators from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party continue to boycott the legislature.
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Krom feel heat after Thai coup
Sao Mon* hasn’t left his small, fifth-storey apartment in Thailand since the May 22 coup.
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Company ‘Destroyed Rice Field’
Representatives of a Chinese firm embroiled in a land dispute in Preah Vihear province have destroyed a hectare of rice fields to drive a farmer away, villagers alleged yesterday.
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Protest Continues as Company Fills in Lake, Threatens Livelihoods
More than 300 villagers who live around Boeng Samrong lake in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district protested for a third day straight yesterday against a private company they say has been filling the lake with sand, threatening the livelihood of local rice farmers and fishermen.
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Illegal Logging Reports Sought
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has issued a letter calling on all municipal and provincial administrations to file reports to his office on the state of their efforts to combat the illegal exploitation of natural resources, including forests and fisheries.
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