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Judge Brings Own Evidence
A judge in one of the trials of 23 men arrested during January garment strikes that turned deadly when on the offensive yesterday, independently bringing forth evidence against union leader Vorn Pov.
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Railway Families Recommend Fixes to ADB Assistance Plan
Representatives for thousands of Cambodian families who have lost land to a development project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) say just about every part of the bank’s new plan to help them would still leave them worse off than before and have asked for a raft of changes.
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Directive Aims to Stop Abuses
Sacred burial groups and community forests should be granted more protection under a new government proclamation issued this month, but rights group and land-grab victims are wary that, without proper enforcement, it will amount to little in practice.
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Chevron Offer Ends Caltex Station Strike
Employees of Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh are returning to work today after management offered to raise-salaries by $20 a month and not withhold pay for time missed during the strike, which started earlier this month.
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CPP Lawmakers Lash Out at One-Party Assembly
The single-party National Assembly sat for the second day of its third plenary session yesterday, discussing two of eight chapters of the draft law on the Organization and Functioning of the Courts.
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Union Leader Rejects Video, Photo Evidence
During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their guns on their bosses if asked to shoot protesters.
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Reporter, ‘Witnesses’ Tell Different Stories
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said yesterday that radio journalist Lay Samean, who was badly beaten by district security guards on May 2 while covering a planned opposition rally, may have provoked the violence by calling the guards “yuon’s dogs”, among other insults.
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Caltex Workers End Strike After Agreeing to $20 Pay Increase
Hundreds of Caltex workers across Phnom Penh will resume work today after an agreement was reached with U.S. oil giant Chevron yesterday to increase their monthly salaries by $20, a official said.
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Ratanakkiri Homes Razed Authorities Move In
More than 400 people clashed with police and military police in Ratanakkiri province yesterday as authorities attempted to bulldoze their houses to make way for a rubber company plantation, villagers said.
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Farmers Blocked From Petitioning Red Cross
Municipal and military police yesterday blocked a group of about 100 displaced farmers from Kratie province who were attempting to deliver a petition to Cambodian Red Cross’ Phnom Penh headquarters calling on the group to help them in their land dispute with a Vietnamese rubber firm.
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ADB Plan Falls Short: Families
Families forced to leave their homes to make way for a railway rehabilitation project funded by the Asian Development Bank and the Australian government have told the bank that a draft compensation plan it has drawn up to remedy their situation is inadequate.
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Gov’t Called on to Save Forests
Villagers from forest communities in nine provinces called on the government yesterday to take action after alleging that “the rice and powerful” are causing the “serous destruction” of their livelihoods.
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Man Arrested in Murder, Rape of Nun
Man who was allegedly confessed to raping and killing an elderly nun at a pagoda in Battambang’s Phnom Proek district on Monday night was sent to the provincial court yesterday.
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Defendants Cut Off as 23’s Trial Goes On
When union leader Vorn Pov was finally allowed to give testimony yesterday on the third day of the trial of 23 men arrested during a garment strike in January, he found himself cut off by an attorney ordering him to answer only the exact question he was being asked.
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As Oz Proposal Nears, Opposition Mounting
Opposition to Australia’s proposal to send refugees to Cambodia is growing, with the Australian Greens’ immigration spokeswoman yesterday saying the party would try to block it in the Senate.
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Union Leader Details Beating By Soldiers
Taking the stand for the first time since he arrest at a garment worker protest that turned violent in early January, union leader Vorn Pao told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday that he went to the protest only to make peace and was beaten bloody by soldiers for his efforts.
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Broker ‘Sold Teen Girls’ Virginity’
Two 14-year-old girls claim that the neighbor trafficked them and sold their virginity in Thailand, Banteay Meanchey provincial police said yesterday.
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Worker Rights ‘Stack Up Poorly’
Cambodia is one of the worst countries in the world to work in, according to an International Trade Union Confederation report released on Monday.
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Man Arrested for Raping, Killing 77-Year-Old Nun in Pagoda
A 22-year-old man was arrested yesterday morning for the rape and murder of an elderly nun at a pagoda in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district, police said yesterday.
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Cambodia Among World’s Worst Places to Work
Cambodia is one of the worst countries in the world to work in due to a lack of effective labor rights and unfair and abusive practices by employers, according to a report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITCC) released Monday.
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