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Royal Pavilions Reduced to Rubble at Veal Mean
One month after workers began removing the dilapidated funeral pavilions put in place in Veal Mean for the 2013 funeral of King Norodom Sihanouk, the park is slowly being restored to its original grassy state.
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Caltex Workers Continue as Negotiations Flounder
Strikes at Phnom Penh’s Caltex stations will continue today after three hours of negotiations between the company, worker representatives, and government officials yesterday failed to reach an agreement, a union leader said.
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Labour leaders decry bail payment and nine arrests
Labour union leaders denounced the government yesterday, alleging unfair treatment in the wake of nine union worker arrests last week and a hefty bail payment by a union president yesterday.
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Can’t fight, forced to take flight
The residents of Por Sen Chey district’s Prey Chisak village could do nothing but stand and stare. Early yesterday , representatives of Green Goal, a private company tasked with measuring and marking sought after property for Phnom Penh’s airport expansion, arrived in the village and started to measure that land many have lived on their whole lives.
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Caltex staff walk off the job
Dry-tanking customers pulling into Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh yesterday were greeted by uniformed employees holding banners demanding pay raises and an annual bonus.
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Bag snatchings jump: EU
After being presented with statistics showing a more than 100 percent rise in petty crime against foreigners, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday called on police officials to look into what’s causing the problem.
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Beaten journo preps lawsuit
A journalist with voice of democracy (VOD) who was badly beaten by security forces at the site of a planned demonstration in the capital earlier this month left for Thailand yesterday for an operation, and plans to file suit against his attackers next week, he said.
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Can’t fight, forced to take flight
The residents of Por Sen Chey district’s Prey Chisak village could do nothing but stand and stare. Early yesterday , representatives of Green Goal, a private company tasked with measuring and marking sought after property for Phnom Penh’s airport expansion, arrived in the village and started to measure that land many have lived on their whole lives.
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Caltex Workers Launch Strike In Phnom Penh
Worker and custom at Phnom Penh’s Caltex petrol stations ground to a halt yesterday as hundreds of employees at all 17 of the petrol giant’s stations in the capital began striking for a higher monthly wages.
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In debt, out of work
They save for months borrowing from family and friends, even taking out loans, to pour as much as a year’s worth of earning into the hands of recruiters that may have no intention and certainly have no guarantee of procuring overseas employment.
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Evictees return to capital
Villagers representing hundreds of families embroiled in a land dispute in Kratie’s Snoul district returned to Phnom Penh yesterday to seek a resolution from a number of national government offices.
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Government Says 3.4 Million Land Titles Issued
The government has issued a total of 3.4 million land titles across the country, 500,000 of them since a renewed push personally orchestrated by Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to a new figures released by the Land Management Ministry.
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‘Gangsters’ target rights worker
A land dispute in the capital’s Tuol Kork district escalated further on Friday when a group of “gangsters” allegedly threatened the life of a human rights worker taking video footage for a documentary on the conflict
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Two Dead, 5 Injured in Kompong Chhnang Fires
A four-year-old girl burned to death on Friday night in a house fire in Kompong Chhnang province that lift five others seriously burned, while a man in his sixties died in another fire in the province on Saturday, police said.
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Foreigner charged over teens
A Turkish man and two Cambodian women arrested at a guesthouse near the capital’s Wat Phnom were charged by Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday for their alleged participation in procuring and engaging in child prostitution, police said.
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Government Spokesman Summons Student Over Facebook Post
Council of Minister spokesman Phay Siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week.
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HRW Says Trial of Stung Meanchey Pair ‘Flawed’
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has labeled the trial of two teenagers arrested during the lethal suppression of a garment sector strike in November 12 as “deeply flawed” and said that the pair should be spared prison sentences.
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Union Leader Ready to Pay Bulk of Bail
Independent union leader Ath Thorn said yesterday he had collected enough money from supporter to pay most of his $25,000 bail to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and would deliver it to the court today.
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Hospital after school
A ROWDY 8-year-old boy has accused his teacher of hitting him over the head with a small white board during class on Thursday, leaving him with a bloody head wound.
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Angkor Brewery Agrees to Strikers’ Demands
More than 200 striking workers at Cambodia’s largest brewer, Cambrew Ltd., resumed work on Saturday after the company agreed to lift their monthly salary from $120 to $150 as they had been demanding.
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