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Hun Sen Considers Reshuffle of Council of Ministers
Prime Minister Hun Sen is considering a reshuffle of the Council of Ministers this year, saying that many current ministers have been sluggish and inefficient in delivering services to citizens. In closing remarks at the Interior Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr. Hun Sen expressed dissatisfaction with the amount of work being done in some ministries and warned that he would give ineffective ministers until the middle of this year to correct their mistakes.
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PM gives ministers an 'F', lashes out at illegal logging task force
Prime Minister Hun Sen unleashed a tirade against underperforming government officials in a pair of speeches yesterday – musing aloud about reshuffling his Council of Ministers and wondering why rockets had not yet been deployed in the Kingdom’s recent “crackdown” on illegal logging. Speaking at the grand opening of the Ministry of Environment’s new headquarters, the premier singled out the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, saying their performances rated an “F”.
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Chroy Changvar residents petition city over OCIC land dispute
Outraged families yesterday petitioned Phnom Penh City Hall in a bid to resolve a bitter land-grabbing dispute with tycoon Pung Khieu Se’s Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC). About 70 people, representing 359 families living in Chroy Changvar district, urged the government to halt the alleged housing rights violations they suffered due to OCIC’s project. The petition calls for one of two options – that residents be given $400 per square metre of land, as opposed to OCIC’s offer of $15, or that residents be given back half of their land, rather than 10 per cent.
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With job cuts on horizon, factory’s staff walks
Roughly 2,000 workers from the Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited garment factory in Phnom Penh went on strike yesterday after the factory announced it would be reducing staff numbers by 500 over the coming months, union representatives said yesterday. Ham Lout, a deputy president from the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said that 100 workers had recently been cut after the company decided not to renew its six-month fixed-term contracts, while the factory had announced that it would be letting go of 500 more workers before April, he said.
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More Abused Brides Returning from China
Two Cambodian women will return home tomorrow after spending almost two years each living in China with abusive husbands, officials said yesterday. Cambodian consular offices in China are helping repatriate the two women as well as a migrant worker rescued from Lao, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
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Jarai sue over alleged Ratanakkiri land grab
Eleven ethnic Jarai villagers – representing 200 families in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district – on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in provincial court accusing a community leader of illegally clearing and selling 30 hectares of land they claim belonged to them. But the accused, Pouy Plin – chief of the forest protection committee in Pak Thom village – denied the allegations, and had filed a lawsuit on February 15 against 14 of the villagers for defaming him after a petition with the same allegations circulated on January 22.
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Mother Nature founder wants his day in court
Deported Mother Nature co-founder Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, in a video posted on the group’s Facebook page yesterday, made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen to expedite his visa application so he can face charges over anti-sand-dredging activities before the Koh Kong Provincial Court. Claiming that being sentenced in absentia would be “a gross violation” of his rights – citing articles of the Cambodian constitution, Code of Criminal Procedures and the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights – Gonzalez-Davidson says he is “not escaping from justice”.
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Ex-Official Says Disgraced Judge Fabricated Biofuel Case
A former Banteay Meanchey provincial administrator who has spent more than two years in prison for his alleged involvement in an illegal land deal said on Wednesday that disgraced former Phnom Penh Municipal Court director Ang Mealaktei fabricated the case against him in retaliation for a letter sent to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Return set for women rescued in China
Two Cambodian women will be repatriated to the Kingdom tomorrow after having allegedly suffered mistreatment at the hands of their husbands in China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday. The Cambodian consulate in Shanghai cooperated with local authorities to rescue the women. Both had married the men in Cambodia and later moved to China to live with them, only to find themselves subjected to abuse.
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Facebook Death Threat Earns Man 18 Months in Jail
A man who threatened to kill prominent academic Sok Touch in a Facebook post last year has been handed an 18-month jail sentence by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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Genocide charge refuted at KRT
Defence counsel for former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan presented a series of documents at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday in a bid to demonstrate that the regime’s alleged persecution of Vietnamese people was political, not racial, and therefore not included under the charge of genocide. Sourcing scholars, newspapers, propaganda and Democratic Kampuchea (DK) meeting records, defence lawyer Anta Guisse highlighted that the “historic conflict” with both the Cham Muslim and Vietnamese people existed prior to the Khmer Rouge regime.
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Villagers Want Action Against Forest-destroying Tycoons
Residents of a social land concession in Kratie visited the provincial court again yesterday to provide more information about two tycoons they accuse of turning 3,000 hectares of forest into a dust-filled plain, as well as evidence that the land was theirs. Thirteen villagers representing 545 households in Prek Pasop district provided more evidence that Buth Bun Eng and Lim Bunna, as well as their accomplices, turned thousands of hectares of forest into timber for sale – leaving barren land behind.
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Capitol Boycott Gaining Force, Activists say
The boycott of Capitol Tours Company is gathering force after 50 civil society groups threw their support behind it on Tuesday, urging the public not to use the company’s service until all charges are dropped against former drivers and union leaders over the violence that flared earlier this month when they were “brutally attacked” during a peaceful protest by about 50 armed tuk-tuk drivers, members of the civil society groups said yesterday. More people are refusing to use Capitol Tours, said San Chey, executive director of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA) Cambodia. The next step is to broaden the boycott to include foreign tourists, he added.
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Amnesty International Latest Rights Group to Criticize Government
Cambodians continue to suffer from a raft of human rights abuses including “arbitrary restrictions” on freedoms of assembly and expression, according to Amnesty International’s latest global report released this morning. The report—which includes summaries for 160 countries and territories—also identifies the adoption of the controversial NGO law in August, the jailing of opposition activists and the refoulement of Montagnard asylum seekers as some of the country’s most pressing rights-related problems.
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Garment Workers Faint in Takeo Province
Twenty-one female garment factory workers fainted yesterday in a locally-owned factory in Takeo province’s Samrong district due to a lack of ventilation. At 7:35 am yesterday, workers at the Five Stars Cotton Garment (Cambodia) Limited, said a woman started to “look delirious,” which shocked the other workers and allegedly caused them to collapse.
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Kratie Court First to Take Charge of Task Force Logging Case
The government has filed four complaints of timber hoarding against two companies in Kratie province, a court official confirmed on Tuesday—the first legal action to come out of an ad hoc task force Prime Minister Hun Sen established last month to go after illicit wood stocks in eastern Cambodia. On Monday, National Police spokesman Eng Hy said the task force has started sending cases to court in Mondolkiri, Kratie and Tbong Khmum provinces, having finished taking inventory some of the wood it had found in sawmills and warehouses, and on rubber plantations.
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Protesters Call for Release of Imprisoned Bus Driver, Activist
About 500 people gathered outside Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison on Tuesday to demand the release of former Capitol Tours bus driver Nan Vanna and labor activist Ros Siphay, who were arrested two weeks ago for participating in a demonstration against the company. The group, comprised mainly of Cambodian Labor Confederation (CLC) members, arrived at the prison in Dangkao district at 9 a.m., where security guards quickly erected a makeshift razorwire barricade to keep the protesters at bay as they chanted “So Unjust! So unjust! Please arrest the perpetrators and release the victims!”
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Villagers seek answers on satellite city plans
About 160 families gathered at the offices of real estate developer ING Holdings yesterday demanding to know how they would be affected by a huge satellite city development south of Phnom Penh. ING City is set to cover 2,572 hectares of land reclaimed from the Boeung Tompun and Boeung Choeung Ek wetlands.
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NEC staff, once contractors, rolled into gov't
The leadership and staff of the National Election Committee – the independent body tasked with adjudicating electoral irregularities and disputes – ceased to be independent contractors yesterday as they were folded into the government ranks. NEC director Sik Bun Hok told the body’s 362 employees yesterday that even though they are now technically civil servants, they must still maintain strict autonomy.
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Residents Remain Wary of Eviction as Satellite City Looms
Villagers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district are frustrated by the lack of communication from authorities about whether their homes will be affected by a satellite city development. About 100 villagers who represent the Prek Ta Kong and Kwa villages near Boeung Tumpun Lake said they are concerned about the future of their homes after Meanchey district officials said it will not be clear who will be affected until the demarcation process is completed.
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