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Subedi Cleared for Ninth Human Rights Mission
The government has approved a visit by U.N. Specail Rapporteur on Human Rights Surya Subedi set for May, the office for the Hight Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia said yesterday. James Heenan, the office’s acting country representative, said in an email that Mr. Subedi would spend eight days in Cambodia on what is to be his ninth mission, and his first year.
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Four Charged for Broking Women to Marry Chinese Men
Anti-human trafficking police on Wednesday charged three men and a woman with smuggling people across the country and forging documents, after they had brokered eight Cambodian women to marry in China.
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Woman Says Police Officer Shot Her Daughter Point-Blank
A police officer shot dead 28-year-old mother of two young children at close range Tuesday at a wedding party in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea district, police said yesterday. After an argument broke out between two groups dancing at the wedding in Mesa Thngak commune’s Bos village, commune police officer Nuch Pheaktra-one of two police officers at the party-fired two warning shots into the air, in an attempt to calm down the revelers, before some show firing his AK-47 assault rifle at Roth Samak, Chatrea district police chief Phin Vandy said.
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Boy,14,Rape 8 year-old Girl In Kompong Cham
A 14 year-old boy was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping an 8-year-old girl in Kompong Cham province’s Kompong Siem district, a district police official said yesterday. Chok Sok kao,deputy district police chief , said that they boy had asked a girl, his next-door neighbor , to buy him some ice, and when she returned, he took her into his room.
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Proposed Minimum Wage Law Shot Down in National Assembly
The National Assembly’s permanent committee yesterday rejected a draft law proposed by the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) that called for a minimum monthly wage of $150 for garment workers and $250 for civil servant. The proposal was rejected during a three-hour closed –door meeting, according to CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeb, who led the discussion .He refused to comment and referred questions to Sman Teath, vice chairmen of the economic, finance, banking and audit committee.
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Hun Sen’s Land Titles Receive Rare Praise From Germany
Since Prime Minister Hun Sen announced an ambitious new plan some 10 months ago to make nearly half a million families official land owners, hardly a week goes by that rural community does not complain of local officials trying to scam the project.
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Cambodian court grants bail to Russian tycoon accused of attacking boat crew
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A Cambodian court has granted bail to a Russian tycoon who had been detained more than three months for allegedly attacking the crew of a boat after a dispute erupted during a New Year's Eve outing. Defence lawyer Kong Rady says Sergei Polonsky was freed Wednesday from a prison in the coastal town of Sihanoukville. A prison official says Polonsky was barred from leaving Cambodia. A trial date has not been set.
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Vietnamese Woman Stabbed in Rape Attempt
A 19-year-old karaoke parlor worker was brutally stabbed early Tuesday morning in Kandal province after three men abducted her in Phnom Penh and one attempted to rape her as she was on her way home from work, police said yesterday.
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Workers Protest Over Khmer New Year Leave
About 3,000 garment workers from Meng Da Footwear Industrial Co. Ltd. Factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district went on strike yesterday morning , protesting a decision by the factory to deduct money from their annual bonuses if they chose to take a six-day holiday over the Khmer New Year instead of the four days allotted.
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NEC Urged to Publish Voter List and Consider Special Ballots
Election monitors have called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to disseminate the voter list for this year’s national election nationwide so that the score of people who stand to lose their right to vote due to errors in the registration process can check their statue.
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Housing Activist Accepts Award at Kennedy Center Gala
WASHINGTON DC - Housing rights activist Tep Vanny and other international rights advocates were awarded in a gala event at the Kennedy Center in Washington Tuesday night, sharing the stage with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden.
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Russian Real Estate Tycoon Released on Bail in Assault Case
PHNOM PENH - A Russian tycoon who has been in jail since late December was released on bail Wednesday. Sergei Polonsky, 41, has been in detention in the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk since Dec. 30, when he was arrested for assault.
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Land erosion threatens Mekong
Mekong Delta (Viet Nam News/ ANN) -- Land erosion in the Mekong Delta provinces, where rivers crisscross, is displacing thousands of families and damaging dozens of houses. In An Giang and Dong Thap provinces, thousands of households are scheduled to be relocated to safer areas because of erosion along the Tien and Hau rivers, two tributaries of the Mekong River.
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Cambodian Parliament rejects opposition-proposed draft law on minimum wages for civil servants, garment workers
PHNOM PENH, April 3 — The National Assembly’s Commission on Economy on Wednesday rejected the opposition- proposed draft law on minimum wages for garment and state workers. The rejection was made during the meeting between Cheam Yeap, chairman of the Parliament’s Commission on Economy, Finance, Banking, and Audit, and the opposition lawmakers led by Son Chhay.
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Ieng Sary’s Chinese Passport Shows Beijing’s Support of KR
Ieng Sary the recently deceased foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge , was give a Chinese passport by Beijing after the fall of the Pol Pot regime in 1979, a move by the Chinese government to curtail the Vietnamese –installed People’s Republic of Kampuchea, historians said yesterday.
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Sam Rainsy different from Aung San Suu Kyi
BANTEAY MEANCHEY (The Cambodia Herald) -- Deputy Prime Minister, Ke Kim Yan, criticized the exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, far differently from that of Burma's opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In a meeting attended by around 1,000 Cambodian People's Party (CPP) members on Tuesday, the CPP's legislative candidate for the province of Banteay Meanchey, said it does not matter if the Sam Rainsy name appear or doesn't appear on the ballot, Cambodia still has a democracy.
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Hun Sen Tells State Workers to BE Neutral Ahead of Election
A day after urged people to vote for CPP, Prime Minister Hun Sen continue with his election messages yesterday, this time calling for neutrality across the country and urging the government authorities to ensure that the vote is free of violence.
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Cambodian Activist Awarded for Work on Land Rights
Cambodian land rights activist Tep Vanny has received an international award for leading a battle against forced evictions with a vow to spare no efforts to win the freedom of a jailed fellow campaigner. The housewife, who has been representing evicted residents from the Boeung Kak lake neighborhood in Phnom Penh which was razed to make way for a luxury residential development, was on Tuesday presented with the Leadership in Public Life Award by Vital Voices—a Washington-based organization which trains women leaders and social entrepreneurs.
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Cambodian court releases ex-Russian billionaire Polonsky on bail
PHNOM PENH, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk provincial court on Wednesday released Russian former billionaire Sergei Polonsky on bail after he had been detained for more than three months for the accusations of violence against Cambodian sailors, officials said. "He was released on bail this morning, but remains under the court's monitoring. He is not allowed to leave Cambodia," Polonsky's lawyer Long Salux told Xinhua over telephone.
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Man Charged Over Gang Rape of Young Widow
The Battambang Provincial Court yesterday charges a 52 year-old man with participating in the gang rape of a 22-year-old woman in Samlot district on Saturday, official said yesterday. Villagers in O’ Samril commune reported seeing four men gang rape that woman in cassava field at about 9 p.m., district police chief Ly Buoy said thought when police arrived at the scene, the suspects had fled.
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