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CNRP Admits Petition Had Some Irregularities
The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) acknowledged there may have been some minor irregularities in the thumbprints on its petition submitted to the King, but said the document has lost none of its validity and the government should address the demands in the petition rather than overtly scrutinizing it. During a press conference yesterday, CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said the petition was not a public document and urged the government to ignore what he called minor irregularities and instead focus on resolving the current political crisis that has led to the opposition party boycotting the National Assembly.
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Police to Start Enforcing Traffic Ticket Fines
Motorists who have not paid their tickets since the new traffic law came into force in January will be sent to court if they do not produce the cash in the next 15 days, according to the National Police.
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Don’t Compare Me to Suu Kyi, Sam Rainsy Tells Supporters
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has pleaded with supporters to not compare him with Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying he fears he might needlessly be killed if he returns to Cambodia.
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Real Estate Tycoon Bonna Released on Bail
Real estate mogul Sung Bonna, who was jailed earlier this month after allegedly issuing a bad check to fellow tycoon Keo Hun, was released on bail on Thursday, according to court officials. “He was released from the prison at about 11 a.m., but I don’t know why,” said Yoeun Thanrath, chief of administration at Phnom Penh’s minimum-security PJ Prison.
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Opposition MP could still face court over petition: official
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak has again threatened to take legal action against the CNRP for irregularities found in a petition sent to King Norodom Sihamoni. Sopheak, who declined to speak to the Post yesterday, told local media that the commission investigating allegedly forged thumbprints on the petition would submit a report to the government, and again suggested measures be taken against opposition lawmaker Yem Ponhearith.
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Duch recalls capital’s last days at KRT
The final, bloody days of Democratic Kampuchea were revisited yesterday, as the defence counsel for former head of state Khieu Samphan cross-examined the ex-chief of the notorious S-21 prison, Kaing Guek Eav, at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Eav, better known by his alias Duch, recalled attending a small meeting, allegedly led by Samphan, on January 6, 1979 – the day before the regime fell.
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Five questioned over Preah Vihear land dispute
About 200 people gathered outside Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday to show solidarity with five villagers being questioned over allegations of vandalism committed during a land dispute protest. The dispute revolves around a plot of land in Sangkum Thmei district’s Ro’ang commune that resident Srey Vaon said yesterday had been used as a burial ground “since ancient times”.
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Municipal Gardeners Go on Strike
Dozens of gardeners employed by Phnom Penh City Hall went on strike on Wednesday, briefly abandoning their pruning and mowing duties to protest a plan that would transfer their management to a private company. While municipal authorities have assured the 200 city gardeners that their salaries would remain unchanged, the 50-odd protesters fear they would be subjected to rigid working hours under private management.
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Child Labor Rampant in Kingdom
Cambodia’s dependence on illegal child labor, despite its small population, is endemic compared to neighboring countries, according to Veng Heang, director of the Child Labor Department at the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. “If we talk about numbers, our population is smaller, but if we talk about percentages, Cambodia’s is similar to neighboring countries,” Mr. Heang said.
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Authorities seize illegal timber in two provinces
Military police yesterday arrested a man in Kampong Chhnang for allegedly transporting timber illegally through the province. The bust, made at about 9am, was one of several reported in recent days. Military police spokesman Eng Hy confirmed gendarmerie officers had arrested a man for trafficking lumber in Kampong Chhnang but declined to give further details about case. “We have sent the suspect to the Forestry Administration,” he said.
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SRP senator’s latest bail request rejected
Jailed Sam Rainsy Party Senator Hong Sok Hour was yesterday once again denied bail by the Supreme Court and further ordered to provide his personal computer to investigators. Sok Hour had presented two appeals before the court – one requesting bail and another that would disallow investigators from taking his personal computer as evidence, instead proposing they use the internet to verify contested documents. Both petitions were rejected yesterday.
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CNRP Vows to Serve Despite Boycott
Members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) yesterday vowed to fulfill their parliamentary obligations to their constituents despite their current boycott of the National Assembly (NA) in defense of human rights and parliamentary immunity. At a press conference yesterday morning, senior CNRP member Son Chhay said that despite rising political tensions throughout the country and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party’s (CPP) “abuse” of opposition member’s parliamentary immunity, his party would continue acting in the best interests of the people who elected them.
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Thailand sends back Cambodian migrants
Nearly 150 Cambodian workers were sent back to Cambodia from Thailand after illegally crossing the border in search of employment. Of the 149, 135 were sent back through Battambang province’s Kamrieng district late on Tuesday evening, according to Puth Lorn, deputy director of Cambodia-Thailand border communications at the Dong border checkpoint.
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Slave Labor Victim Speaks Out
Keo Rotha was sitting in his small brick house in a quiet village in Pursat province, surrounded by coconut trees and a bamboo fence, looking at his old phone while waiting for a call to tell him the results of the court case he and six other human trafficking victims had filed in the United States and Thailand against four big companies. In 2011, the 41-year-old father of three, whose wife works as a Khmer teacher at a secondary school, decided to apply for a passport and find work in Thailand in an attempt to give his wife and children a better life.
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NEC pledges to allow vetting of voter lists
National Election Committee (NEC) spokesman Hang Puthea yesterday promised the body would release electoral lists for vetting after it finished registering voters, but conceded the process faced a tight deadline. Puthea made the pledge in response to concerns raised by stakeholders yesterday at a roundtable discussion hosted by election watchdog Comfrel.
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Troops close ranks over Siem Reap land
A group of 81 soldiers in Siem Reap province have appealed to Defense Minister Tea Banh to step in and block alleged attempts by their former commander, a retired three-star general, to carve up the land housing the unit’s base for his relatives and other military figures. The troops from Land Force Unit 2, who staged a protest on Tuesday, have filed a complaint, accusing their former commander Dom Hak of grabbing land now occupied by the soldiers in Siem Reap town’s Kork Chork commune.
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Maid tells of abuse faced in Saudi Arabia
After two weeks stuck inside an immigration office in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, a Cambodian domestic worker returned to Phnom Penh yesterday without assistance from the Cambodian government – on a plane ticket she says was paid for by Saudi immigration police. Math Savi, 28, had worked as a maid in Saudi Arabia for 18 months, suffering alleged abuse at the hands of three separate employers. Her case was profiled in the Post last month, prompting one of the men who recruited her, Ji Nasiat, to arrange her return via a broker in Riyadh.
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CNRP Awning to Remain in Place—for Now
Authorities have backed down from their threat to remove an awning recently affixed to the CNRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, instead asking the opposition party to submit a retroactive construction request that will be reviewed by Meanchey district officials. On June 14, district governor Pech Keo Mony wrote to the CNRP demanding that it remove the blue metal awning within a week because it extended over a public sidewalk. In fact, the awning is located well inside the party’s property.
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Families Evicted by Sugarcane Farms Appeal in Phnom Penh
Villagers representing more than 1,000 families that accuse sugarcane plantations around the country of stealing their land gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to once again call on the government to help. The families, spread across four provinces, have been pleading with government bodies for years to help them get their land back or secure the compensation they say they deserve. The 36 representatives who came to Phnom Penh on Tuesday handed in a joint petition—a first for the communities—to the National Assembly’s human rights commission and the ministries of agriculture and environment.
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Adhoc staff grilled in court again
Two Adhoc officials appeared before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for additional questioning, with both continuing to deny charges they had bribed a witness. Nay Vanda and Ny Sokha, senior staffers at the human rights group, were questioned by judge Theam Chanpiseth, who grilled them about their interactions with Khom Chandaraty, the alleged mistress of opposition leader Kem Sokha.
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