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Prestige Garment workers protest for second day
More than 200 workers from the Prestige Garment factory in Kandal province yesterday continued a protest over the sacking of a colleague who tried to form a union.
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Kandal rally enters second day
A protest by more than 100 of 300 Prestige Garment Co garment workers in front of their factory in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district’s Tbeng commune, the result of their representative being dismissed, entered its second day on Tuesday.
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Farmer charged over rape-murder of child
Takeo Provincial Court yesterday charged a 40-year-old farmer with murder accompanied by rape over a fatal attack on a nine-year-old girl whom he allegedly strangled dead before dumping her body in a pond in his village.
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Preah Vihear parks see clearing
Forest rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) said on Tuesday that forest in the Phnom Tnort-Phnom Pok and Prey Lang wildlife sanctuaries in Preah Vihear province are being cleared by groups of perpetrators from Kampong Thom, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces.
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Vehicles seized as authorities intervene in land clearing up
Stung Hav district administration intervened in a land clearing operation on disputed land in Otres Commune on Saturday, seizing two vehicles as a warning to all parties to cease their activities until a final court verdict is reached.
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Rainsy thanks int’l pressure as Senate readies for law change
The Senate is due to gather on Tuesday to discuss the proposed change to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties before its likely adoption at the meeting, an amendment opposition leader Sam Rainsy claims came “thanks to international pressure”.
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Government responds to UN human rights concerns
Government officials on Monday hit back at UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) criticisms expressed ahead of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) scheduled for next month.
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Land dispute under spotlight
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) released a report on Thursday on the experiences of local communities across three provinces who suffered rights violations as a result of land disputes with companies operating in the Kingdom.
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Koh Kong ethnic group seeks recognition
Nearly 20 indigenous Chong people from two communes in Koh Kong province yesterday petitioned the Provincial Hall to ask the governor to speed up the process of registering them as an ethnic community group.
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Government to address youths in jail
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng called for an increase in efforts to reduce the occurrence of youth offenders and incarceration, while also acknowledging that the issue of overcrowding continued to impact the health and safety of Cambodia’s adult prison population.
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Ninety-five NGOs condemn convictions of union leaders
Ninety-five NGOs have issued a joint statement condemning the convictions of six union leaders for their roles in a minimum wage protest at Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh in 2013.
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Ministries urged to work together to prevent violence against women
Huor Samith, secretary of state at the Women’s Affairs Ministry, yesterday led a workshop on the National Action Plan to prevent violence against women for the next five years and said that other ministries must also help prevent violence against women.
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Increase in land dispute resolutions
The Land Management Ministry yesterday announced it solved 364 out of 990 land dispute cases reported throughout the country this year, an increase when compared to last year’s 208 solved cases.
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Senate to debate political party law amendment
The Senate is today due to debate an amendment to the Law on Political Parties that could pave the way for hundreds of banned former opposition members to re-enter the political arena.
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Massage shop owner charged with procurement
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged a massage shop owner with offering sex services in her shop in Chamkar Mon district.
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UNHRC releases documents on state of Cambodia
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has published three documents in preparation for a review next month on the situation in Cambodia.
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CNRP: Rainsy set for return to Cambodia
A facebook post over the weekend claimed Cambodia National Rescue Party acting president Sam Rainsy will return to Cambodia “before Khmer New Year” after moving to France to avoid arrest on a slew of outstanding legal cases and sentences.
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Kampong Chhnang court put two land grabbers in detention
The Kampong Chhnang provincial court on Saturday ordered the detention of two suspects charged with illegal forest clearing in Rolea Ba’ier district, said the deputy provincial prosecutor Long Sitha.
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More refugees to face detention in US
A lawyer with the Asian Law Caucus in the United States has expressed concern that the Kingdom could see a further increase in deportees for 2019 as the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ramps up the deportation of Cambodian refugees.
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Government aims to take children out of prisons
The government on Friday launched several strategies to protect juvenile offenders, including removing them from prisons to be put into rehabilitation centres, a move also aimed at reducing congestion in prisons.
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