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Garment factory workers protest unpaid wages in capital
About 50 workers from a garment subcontractor in the capital’s Dangkor district protested at the Ministry of Labour yesterday, calling for the factory’s owner to pay their wages after he reportedly disappeared with a massive amount of cash. "The boss ran away with $100,000 last month and the workers were unable to sell the property because another factory filed a complaint [against the factory]," said Chea Sophea, president of the Cambodian Rights Workers of Union Federation.
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CNRP jailing draws a karmic warning letter
The daughter of imprisoned opposition official Meach Sovannara has written an open letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen accusing him of exercising complete control over the justice system, while suggesting her father’s continued incarceration might have karmic consequences for the premier’s family. Last summer, Sovannara was sentenced to 20 years in prison on the charge of “leading an insurrection” for his alleged part in a 2014 Freedom Park protest, during which clashes between demonstrators and security personnel left 45 people injured.
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Hun Sen Heads To US for Asean Summit
After weeks of build up—including threats of protests in the U.S. and counterprotests at home—Prime Minister Hun Sen will join regional leaders today for the U.S.-Asean Summit in Rancho Mirage, California.
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Gov’t gets involved with Japan ‘interns’
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stepped into a labour dispute on behalf of Cambodians working under an “internship” scheme in Japan widely criticised for abusing the rights of foreign workers, it revealed late last week on its Facebook page. Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry, speaking yesterday, said the embassy in Tokyo had held discussions with the employers of 37 Cambodian “interns” working across three dry-cleaning plants in Japan’s central Gifu prefecture.
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Sihanoukville beach vendors protest eviction notice
A crowd of vendors from three Sihanoukville beaches gathered yesterday in front of Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall to protest a recent government order that they vacate within a month or face forced eviction. If vendors at Otres and Ochheauteal beaches, as well as the beach in front of the old royal residence, have not vacated by March 13, authorities will force them out, according to a letter from provincial authorities and the National Committee for Beach Management and Development.
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Arrest Made After Police Find Decapitated Body
A man was arrested on Saturday at his home in Siem Reap City, where police discovered the burned head of a woman he had allegedly killed and decapitated the previous evening at a guesthouse in the city, authorities said on Sunday. Chan Chhaya, 40, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. in Toek Vil commune, hours after police were informed that the headless body of a woman identified as Len Seila, 23, had been found at the Moon Rise Guesthouse in Svay Dangkum commune, said Nuon Sakchamroeunrith, a deputy city police chief.
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Anti-Capitol boycott drawing increased support after attack
A boycott of the Capitol Bus Company organised by former drivers and their supporters is picking up steam online after a brutal beatdown took place at a protest last week. The drivers, who have been protesting for the reinstatement of 45 of their own after they were allegedly fired for trying to start a union, announced the boycott in December.
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Cambodia Signs Maid Deal With Saudi Arabia
Cambodia has signed agreements with Saudi Arabia setting up negotiations to work out the final details of a deal that will reopen legal channels for Cambodians to find jobs in the Middle Eastern country, where employers are often accused of abusing migrant workers. Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng was in Riyadh on Thursday to sign two memoranda—one specifically for maids and another for all other workers—with his Saudi counterpart, Mufrej Al-Haqbani, according to a statement issued by Cambodia’s Labor Ministry on Friday.
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Otres Ditch Dwellers Still Fighting for ‘Their Land’
Police and military officials violently evicted more than 100 families from their homes in Burnt Bridge village, just south of Sihanoukville, in 2007. Many of the families made temporary shelters with wood, plastic, and corrugated metal on a road behind Otres Beach. Almost nine years later, despite government offers of new land, roughly 60 families are still living in the ditch. The doors to their shacks are barely a meter from the road, where tuk-tuks rattle past carrying tourists to the beach. Children run back and forth across the road, and the smell of exhaust fumes is thick. “With all the traffic the air is hard to breathe,” said Kong Yen. She lived in Burnt Bridge village for 10 years before the eviction. Since then, she has been living in a metal shack in the ditch along a road leading to what many have described as the province’s most idyllic beach.
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Access to Justice for Nation’s Children Among World’s Worst
A report released today by global advocacy group Child Rights International Network (CRIN) ranked Cambodia 166 out of 197 countries for the effectiveness of its courts in protecting children. The report, titled “Rights, Remedies and Representation,” asked NGO workers and legal experts in each country to score four factors: the ability of children to file lawsuits, the availability of legal aid resources, procedures for taking legal action and the application of international laws pertaining to child rights.
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Logs seized in Stung Treng
The recently created nationwide anti-logging commission seized 300 logs of illegal timber at a sawmill near a Vietnamese graveyard in Stung Treng province on Friday. Police, environmental, forestry and judicial officials under the commission’s purview are currently re-inspecting previously checked logging sites and warehouses in Stung Treng, and have been since late last week.
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Boeung Kak 13 get belated appeal date
Four years after their appeal to have the charges against them dropped, 13 Boeung Kak activists have received a Supreme Court summons for a March 2 hearing. The 13 women were demonstrating against the Boeung Kak evictions in May 2012 when police arrested them for allegedly occupying private property illegally and aggravated obstruction of public officials.
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Cambodia Near Bottom in Global List of Children’s Access to Justice
The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has released its worldwide rankings of countries’ protection of children’s legal rights, with Cambodia coming in at a lowly 166th place out of 197, just ahead of Libya and just behind Tongo. The CRIN ranked the countries in the study based on how well they followed the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. “The study focused on the status of the CRC in law, the legal status of the child, available remedies for children in court and the practicalities of accessing justice,” said spokesman Elliot Cass.
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Two Cambodian Merchants Denied Bail in Thai Court
The two Cambodian merchants arrested at Rong Kluea Market during a Thai Department of Special Investigation (DSI) raid that turned violent earlier this month were denied bail on Friday by the Thai Court of Appeals, according to a statement released by the Cambodian Foreign Affairs Ministry. The request for bail was issued by the lawyer at the Cambodian Consulate in Sakaeo province. “The Thai Appeals Court denied the bail request by the lawyer of the [Cambodian] Consulate,” Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry’s statement reads.
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Suspect arrested in Siem Reap town beheading
Police in Siem Reap province on Saturday arrested a suspect in the case of the alleged murder of a woman whose headless body was found stuffed under a guesthouse bed. Chan Chhay Ya, 40, was apprehended while allegedly attempting to burn the head of Len Seila, 24, in a fire pit behind his house in Siem Reap town’s Toek Vil commune, said provincial police chief Thorng Sakun. Seila’s parents had told police of the possibility that Chhay Ya was behind the killing.
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Mondulkiri journalist hauled in over logging story
A journalist reporting on logging in Mondulkiri was picked up and interrogated by military police yesterday, following a story of his that implicated a senior military official in illegal logging. Local journalist Van Tith says he was forcefully taken from his home in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima district and driven to provincial military police headquarters to be questioned for several hours by provincial commander Sak Sarang – the man Tith’s report, read out on TV a day earlier, had claimed was a linchpin in Mondulkiri’s illegal timber trade.
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Journalist Detained Over Logging Story
A journalist who accused a military police commander of accepting bribes from illegal loggers in Mondolkiri province was arrested and briefly detained on Thursday on the commander’s orders, a move that was criticized by the Ministry of Information.
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Indigenous Community’s Collective Land Still in Danger: Report
The collective land of indigenous communities in Cambodia will continue to face encroachment from economic land concessions and the actions of private companies in the future despite the Cambodian Government’s moratorium on granting ELC licenses, according to a Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) report released yesterday. CCHR’s report “Access to Collective Land Titles for Indigenous Communities in Cambodia” shows that of Cambodia’s 458 indigenous communities, only 11 have been able to complete the process of having their land registered, and therefore protected from outside interest, with the government as a collective.
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'Entertainment' sector exacts mental toll on its workers
Nearly one in five of the Kingdom’s female “entertainment workers” reported having considered suicide while almost one in 10 actually attempted to take their own lives in the three months prior to being interviewed for a study published this week. Entertainment work is a broad church, with workers including women “in different entertainment venues, such as karaoke bars, restaurants, bars, nightclubs”, said Dr Siyan Yi, who led the team behind the study.
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Man makes bail after PM ‘threat’
A 28-year-old man charged and detained last month for allegedly threatening and insulting Prime Minister Hun Sen on Facebook was quietly released on bail last week by the Kampong Thom Provincial Court, according to a court letter. Dated February 4 and signed by investigating judge Seth Vannak, the document orders the immediate release of Man Sam Orn from the provincial prison.
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