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French Embassy seeks Khmer Rouge Memorial
A French Embassy delegation yesterday met with Phnom Penh City Hall Officials to discuss the construction of a statue or stupa to commemorate the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime as part of reparations for civil parties to the war crime tribunal, officials said.
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KR Tribunal Debates Second Phase of Case 002
Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday urged the court to proceed with second phase of Case 002 and for it to include all remaining charges against the two surviving regime leaders.s
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Garment Workers Strike Over Unpaid Wages
About 1,000 workers from Galey Global (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. Protested outside of the garment factory in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nob district yesterday, demanding that the company fire its administration chief for cutting worker’s wages.
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Hun Sen Says His Face as Good as Any; Situation Is Normal
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that calls for him to resign and for a new “face” to lead the country were hypocritical as the faces of his critics also remained unchanged.
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Minorities Complain to IFC Over Rubber Farm Funding
More than a dozen ethnic minority communities for Cambodia’s northeast field a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) yesterday accusing it of breaking its own safeguard policies by investing in rubber plantations they say are stealing their land and illegally logging their forests.
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Unions Threaten Nationwide Strike if 21 Prisoners Not Released
Sixteen unions threatened yesterday to organize a nationwide strike if the 21 activist and protester jailed following garment industry protest on January 2 and 3 are not released on bail today.
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Sonando Sends Latest TV License, Radio Request
Independent radio station owner Man Sonando field his latest request with the Information Ministry yesterday requesting a TV license and a radio relay station to push his popular radio broadcasts farther into the provinces.
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Minister No Longer Signing University Degree
The Minister of Education will no longer place a validating signature on the country’s university degrees, and schools of tertiary education will soon be audited, and the properly accredited, for the quality of their education, officials said yesterday.
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Adhoc Concerned by Deaths Related to Domestic Violence
At least 11 people were murdered during domestic disputes or committed suicide after suffering domestic violence in the past two months, local rights group Adhoc said in a statement yesterday.
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Koh Kong Villagers Halt Protest Againt UDG
About 80 villagers involved in a land dispute with Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) in Koh Kong province suspended their roadblock protest on Saturday afternoon following negotiation with local authorities, a rights workers and villagers said yesterday.
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Koh Kong Villagers Halt Protest Againt UDG
About 80 villagers involved in a land dispute with Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) in Koh Kong province suspended their roadblock protest on Saturday afternoon following negotiation with local authorities, a rights workers and villagers said yesterday.
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Adhoc Urges for Attempted Murder Case Go to Court
Local rights group Adhoc yesterday asked the Mondolkiri police to forward to the provincial court a case lodged by the NGO against a company they claimed to kill one of their staff last month.
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Bailed Garment Workers Speak of Injustice
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again.
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Families to File Complaint With IFC Over Rubber Plantations
Some of the hundreds of families losing land and community forest to Vietnamese-owned rubber plantations in Cambodia’s northeast will this week file a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) over the investment it has made in the plantations’ parent company.
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Adhoc Urges for Attempted Murder Case Go to Court
Local rights group Adhoc yesterday asked the Mondolkiri police to forward to the provincial court a case lodged by the NGO against a company they claimed to kill one of their staff last month.
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Families to File Complaint With IFC Over Rubber Plantations
Some of the hundreds of families losing land and community forest to Vietnamese-owned rubber plantations in Cambodia’s northeast will this week file a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) over the investment it has made in the plantations’ parent company.
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Bailed Garment Workers Speak of Injustice
In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again.
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UN Envoy Visits Boeng Kak, Condemns Killings
The U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, Maina Kiai, on Friday wrapped up a three-day unofficial visit to Cambodia by paying a visit to the Boeng Kak community, the site of the country’s longest-running land dispute.
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Two of 23 Jailed Protesters Granted Bail; Release Date Unknown
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted bail to two of the 23 union activists and protesters jailed following the lethal suppression of garment worker strikes by military police on January 3.
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Thread to Unleash ‘Paratroopers’ in Land Dispute
About 200 villagers locked in a land dispute with the Chinese-owned Union Development Group in Koh Kong province said they were warned on Friday that “paratroopers” would be brought in if they continued to block a road to the company’s headquarters in Botum Sakor National Park.
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