Searching Result
Found: 15,630
-
Read More Authorities Put Up Barricades, Travelers To Phnom Penh Checked, As 14 People Arrested for Incitement
Provincial police force and district authorities have set up barricades to check on people traveling from one area to another, restricting entry of groups to Phnom Penh to prevent “extremist groups” from organizing a so-called color revolution on August 18 to “topple the government”. At the time of writing, around 14 people have been arrested for allegedly inciting people to revolt against the government, according to National Police spokesperson Chhay Kim Khoeun.
Read More -
Read More Zhen Tai Workers’ Representatives File Complaint With Labor Minister After All Requests Were Rejected
Workers’ representatives at Zhen Tai Garment Cambodia Co Ltd filed a complaint with Minister of Labor and Vocational Training Heng Sour after the Department of Labor Dispute rejected their requests for a resolution to their issues in the factory. The ministry said it will find a solution for them. In early August, the ministry rejected all 13 requests made by the workers, which they said was unfair to them. They asked relevant parties to come up with a detailed solution to their case.
Read More -
Read More Two People Arrested Over Alleged Insurgency Plans To Overthrow The Government
Kampong Thom provincial deputy prosecutor Say Veasna confirmed that Huy Sopheak, Srayov commune councilor, was arrested on Wednesday, following an arrest warrant by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for incitement to disturb social security.
Read More -
Read More “Can’t Underestimate Issue” – Interior Ministry Orders Police To Restrict Groups Planning ‘Color Revolution’ In Phnom Penh
Interior Minister Sar Sokha issued an order to provincial governors, the police force and military police to tighten security to restrict people from entering Phnom Penh as a group to prevent extremist groups from carrying out a “color revolution to overthrow the government”. The order follows protests by several thousand Cambodians living overseas who demanded the government withdraw from the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Areas (CLV-DTA) due to concerns of Cambodia ceding territory in border provinces to Vietnam.
Read More -
Read More Fifteen Indigenous People Accused of Land Encroachment in Virak Chey National Park
Fifteen indigenous people in Ratanakiri province are worried about losing their rotational farm land after being charged with land encroachment at Virak Chey National Park, which is a protected area. They have been placed under court supervision. Environmental officials filed a complaint against the indigenous people from mid-June to July for allegedly violating the protected area.
Read More -
Read More Relatives urge prison officials to move environmental activists to capital
Lawyers and family members of five imprisoned environmental activists said the activists are still being held at separate remote prisons, making it time-consuming and costly to visit them.
Read More -
Read More Hun Sen warns of more arrests related to Vietnam-Laos cooperation deal
Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen on Monday again threatened to arrest anyone who tries to organize a demonstration in the country against an economic cooperation agreement with Vietnam and Laos that has been a subject of online debate over the last month
Read More -
Read More Stung Treng Bunong Community Fights for Collective Land Title Years After Deluge of Lower Sesan II dam
The 62 families of the old Kbal Romeas village have committed themselves to staying put after the Lower Sesan II dam inundated their homes in 2017, driving them to shelter about five kilometers away on higher ground just above the reservoir. The dam – an $816 million, 400-megawatt joint venture between Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese entities – permanently altered a broad swath of rural watershed traditionally inhabited by Bunong, Kuoy, Lao, Jarai, Kreung and Tampuon ethnic and indigenous minorities.
Read More -
Read More Armed Forces To Root Out Extremist Group Opposing CLV-DTA Amid Protests Overseas
Government officials and armed forces condemned anti-Cambodia-Lao-Vietnam Triangle Area (CLV-DTA) activists and pledged to suppress any activities initiated by the "extremist opposition group" based overseas who are" attempting to overthrow the government". Several thousand Cambodians protested in South Korea, Japan and Australia on Sunday to demand the government to withdraw from the CLV-DTA due to concerns of Cambodia ceding territory in the northeast province to Vietnam.
Read More -
Read More Labor and Vocational Training Ministry Rejects All of Zhen Tai Workers’ Proposals
The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training rejected all 13 requests made by the workers of Zhen Tai Garment Cambodia Co Ltd, which the workers say was unfair to them. They have asked relevant parties to come up with a detailed solution to their case. In July, workers at Zhen Tai in Phnom Penh accused the company of “embezzling” workers’ pensions. They have been waiting for 11 months for a settlement.
Read More -
Read More Expedite Collective Land Titles for Indigenous People Who Risk Losing Their Farmlands, NGOs Urge Government
In a statement issued in conjunction with International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2024 on August 9, it said only 43 out of 458 indigenous communities received collective land titles from 2011 to July 2024. While urging the government to expedite access to collective land titles for indigenous people, CCHR said despite the existence of legal mechanisms to protect their right to land, the communities remain vulnerable to land seizures due to the absence of a formal tenure. It highlighted that the issuance of collective land titles was stalled because of the “complexity, cost and lengthy duration” of the application procedure.
Read More -
Read More NPP Official Defends Innocence in Court, As Three Other Candlelight Party Members Arrested
A senior National Power Party (NPP) official requested the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to dismiss his “incitement” charge following a complaint brought against him by a CPP official who demanded $100,000 compensation for his “mental anguish”. The hearing before the judge went on for 30 minutes on the afternoon of August 8.
Read More -
Read More Supreme Court Upholds Incitement Verdict Against Candlelight’s Thach Setha
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court’s verdict on opposition Candlelight Party vice president Thach Setha who was sentenced to three years’ jail and fined four million riel (about $1000) for incitement to disturb social order and discrimination. In February this year, the Court of Appeal in Phnom Penh sustained the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s conviction against Setha who violated Articles 494, 495 and 496 of the Criminal Code.
Read More -
Read More New Professional Journalism Charter Speedily Implemented Only Days After Input Deadline
Last Friday, CamboJA rushed to submit the input gathered from media partners and its members to the ministry. CamboJA requested the deletion of a few phrases, and addition of some “important” phrases in the draft including Article 4, 5, 21 and 28. He said some were amended but others remained the same. Article 5 saw “little” change. CamboJA requested the deletion of the entire second phrase of the article because it was built around legal principles and other rules.
Read More -
Read More Cambodia’s prime minister warns against Bangladesh-like demonstrations
Prime Minister Hun Manet warned Cambodians against protesting against the government, citing Bangladesh’s recent demonstrations in its capital that turned into deadly clashes and caused that country’s leader to resign and flee by helicopter earlier this week.
Read More -
Read More Labor Ministry Brings Home 26 Cambodian Migrant Workers Stuck in Saudi Arabia For Months
Twenty six Cambodian worker, who allegedly worked long hour with inadequate food, have returned home after being retained for four months in Saudi Arabia. Four more remain but will be repatriated soon
Read More -
Read More Zhen Tai Garment Factory Workers Urge Speedy Settlement of NSSF Payment Dispute
After waiting for three months, they decided to lodge a complaint with the Labor Ministry on July 11, 2024 to resolve the matter. On July 31, 2024, the ministry invited workers and company representatives to discuss, but no agreement was reached.Sophen said the workers demanded that the company resolve 13 issues, one of them being the speeding up of the NSSF payment deficit.
Read More -
Read More Journalist Associations Rush To Submit Input on Draft Journalism Charter Amid Tight Deadline
On July 24, the ministry held a consultation with approximately 200 media associations and journalists to gather feedback on the draft charter. The draft was only distributed to participants on the morning of the consultation. While organizations like the Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association (CamboJA) and UNESCO did not provide immediate feedback on the consultation day, but asked for additional time to review the draft. Other organizations, such as the Club of Cambodian Journalists, made recommendations while supporting the draft.
Read More -
Read More Cambodia’s Young Environmental Activists Pay a Heavy Price
It’s risky to try to protect the environment in authoritarian Cambodia. Ten young activists from the Mother Nature environmental group have recently been given long jail sentences. Two were sentenced to eight years on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Another seven were sentenced to six years for plotting, while one, a Spanish national banned from entering Cambodia, was sentenced in absentia.
Read More -
Read More Mondulkiri Bunong Community Protest Destruction of Rubber Trees by Environmental Rangers
Some 200 indigenous people protested on Friday to demand authorities to expedite the issuance of communal land title after environmental rangers destroyed the rubber plants in their village farmland in Mondulkiri province.
Read More
Generously Supported by
