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UK Man Arrested After Child Sex Investigation
A British national was arrested yesterday in Phnom Penh on suspicion of sexually abusing at least three girls aged between 8 and 11 years, police said.
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Fees Capped for Migrant Workers
The government yesterday unveiled new rules that govern workers travelling abroad, among them a cap on the amount that they can be charged for the necessary documents.
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Sweep Given Green Light
In an apparent continuation of efforts to clear Phnom Penh’s Streets of beggars, street sellers and homeless adults and children, City Hall is turning its attention from the riverside and Russian Market areas to major intersections around town.
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HAGL Filled in Lakes: Villagers
More than 100 families living in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with authorities, claiming a rubber giant – already accused of illegal logging – filled in two natural lakes, provincial officials said yesterday.
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Recruitment Firms Enlisted to Return Migrants
The Ministry of Labor reached an agreement yesterday with 40 labor recruitment agencies granting them the authority to endorse migrant workers to Thailand, providing all necessary permits and documents for a flat fee of $49, the labor minister said.
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City to Ban Begging From Major Intersections
Phnom Penh City Hall plans to ban beggars and street sellers from operating at the traffic lights of six major intersections in the city, according to a statement posted on the municipality’s website on Monday.
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Arrest Made in Long-Running B’bang Land Dispute
A villager in Battambang province was arrested on Monday in connection with a long-running land dispute that has pitted about 30 families in Thma Koul district against a local businessman, both laying claim to the same 161 hectares of farmland, police said yesterday.
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Violence Threatens Still, Says Subedi
If the ruling party remains hesitant to fundamentally reform the way it governs its people, Cambodia could see more of the fatal violence that at times exploded in the wake of last July’s election, UN rights envoy Surya Subedi warned yesterday.
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Officials Seek Solutions to Rush on Kratie Land
Local authorities in Kratie met yesterday with 301 families who were recently given a social land concession in Snuol district to discuss how to deal with an influx of hundreds of villagers who are also hoping to live on the land.
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Ocean Reps Take Case to Arbitration
Twenty representatives of workers locked in a month-long dispute with management at the Ocean Garment factory appealed before the Arbitration Council yesterday, a union official said.
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Hun Sen’s Sister Tied to Company in Boeng Kak Land Sale
A development firm owned by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khim and accused of illegally evicting thousands of families from central Phnom Penh recently sold a small piece of its project area for $14.9 million to a company with ties to one of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s sister.
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Questions Raised Over Land Sale at B Kak Site
Developer Shukaku has sold off close to 1.3 hectares of land at the capital’s controversial Boueng Kak lake site to a Singapore-listed HLH Group company, according to a statement from HLH.
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Without Lawyer, Krom Villagers Face Court Trial
Arrest, detention and even an upcoming trial can’t sway 68 Khmer Krom families faced with eviction to give up a bitter land dispute over a bird sanctuary in Takeo province.
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‘Child Maids’ Earn Couple Two Charges
A couple accused of torturing a 7-year-old girl and her 14-year-old sister they held as maids were formally charged by a Phnom Penh Municipal Court investigating judge yesterday.
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NGO Calls for Fairer Appeals
A major local rights group has called on the Court of Appeal to ensure that the “fundamental and universally recognized human right” to a fair trial is respected.
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Half-Year Protest Shutters Factory
A six-month protest over unpaid bonuses has seen production at a Pur Senchey district box factory grind to a half over the past four days, with more than 200 former employees blocking gates and preventing shipments.
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Six Unions Call for Pay, Acquittals
Union leaders made another appeal for the Cambodian government to raise the minimum wage to $160 and rescind convictions of 25 workers arrested during deadly demonstrations in November and January.
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KDC Families Want Compensation Deal Revoked
Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a court complaint yesterday to demand their agreement with the company be nullified.
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KRT Denies Reports of Judge’s Exit
Judge Silvia Cartwright of the Khmer Rouge tribunal may be joining a UN investigation into alleged abuses of human rights in the Sri Lankan civil war, according to New Zealand and Sri Lankan news reports that were flatly denied by the tribunal yesterday.
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Gender Gap in Politics an ongoing issue
Cambodian women continue to be poorly represented in government following commune elections in May, the Committee to Promote Women in Politics said yesterday.
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