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Rainsy vows to return amid threats of arrest
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy is scheduled to return to Phnom Penh tonight where he could face arrest and a two-year prison sentence over a defamation case dating back to 2008, his party said yesterday. Eng Chhay Eang, a spokesman of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, said yesterday evening that Rainsy – who has been visiting supporters in South Korea – will arrive at Phnom Penh International Airport at around 10:30pm on a Korean Air flight. According to the airport’s arrival schedule, the flight is due to land at 10:20pm.
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Ministry Requests Governor Response to Minorities
The Interior Ministry on Friday released a letter that it sent to Mondolkiri provincial governor Eng Bunheang asking him to respond to a petition—filed last month and thumbprinted by 900 members of 17 ethnic minority Bunong communities—requesting his removal.
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Paris attacks felt in Kingdom
On Saturday morning, flowers were piled high on the shuttered storefronts of Le Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris. The Cambodian eatery, popular with young clients in the hip 10th arrondissement, was the site of a bloodbath on Friday which killed 14 people, one of six sites in a series of massacres which left at least 129 people dead and hundreds more injured across the French capital.
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Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Rainsy
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of opposition leader Sam Rainsy over a long-pending defamation case brought by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong in 2008.
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PM Orders Stop to Land Leases Along Border
The government is preparing to order a stop to the leasing of land along the country’s borders with Thailand, Vietnam and Laos, according to a message posted to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page Friday. Following a year of rising tensions with Vietnam over a number of contested regions along Cambodia’s eastern border, Mr. Hun Sen wrote that the practice must stop to avoid disputes with neighboring countries.
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Rainsy Urges Migrants in Korea to Attend Events
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday urged Cambodians living in South Korea to attend CNRP events being held in Seoul this weekend, despite a warning from the Cambodian ambassador on Thursday that people should stay away. In a video posted to his Facebook page on Thursday, Ambassador Suth Dina said a “concert” organized by the opposition party was simply a front for provoking racial discrimination, and warned migrant workers against attending.
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Draft Union Law Criticised by GMAC, Unions
The Council of Ministers approved the draft Trade Union Law on Friday and will send it to the National Assembly next week, according to the council’s spokesman, who defended the legislation against its many detractors in the multibillion-dollar garment sector. The law, which would establish new rules for forming and dissolving unions, has been in the making for years, thought the government has not released a draft since mid-2014. It has drawn criticism from unions and employers alike.
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Last Borei Keila Residents Mull City’s Final Offer
Thirteen long years after the Phanimex Development company signed a deal to develop a heavily populated slice of land in central Phnom Penh, the remaining members of a community displaced by the project were offered compensation on Friday, but appear set to reject the offers and stand their ground.
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Sokha still in crosshairs
The National Assembly is preparing to discuss the “people’s proposal” to oust Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha from his position as the assembly’s vice president, a ruling party lawmaker said yesterday. Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman Chheang Vun said that Monday’s pro-CPP protest against Sokha, which ended in two CNRP lawmakers being severely beaten, was just the latest of “many” requests to oust the CNRP leader from the position, which the assembly was obliged to consider.
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Police Arrest Six for Bride Trafficking
Three men and three women were arrested in Phnom Penh on Thursday on suspicion of trafficking Cambodian women to China to be sold as brides, police said. Keo Thea, chief of the municipal police’s anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection bureau, said his officials first arrested a woman believed to be the ringleader while she was en route to Vietnam. “Three victims and the ringleader were found while they were traveling on a bus…to Vietnam and from there would be sent to China,” he said.
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Sam Rainsy Must Apologize to Hun Sen, CPP Says
The “culture of dialogue” between Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will be over unless Mr. Rainsy issues a public apology for describing the premier as a fascist, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Thursday. Mr. Rainsy described Monday’s beating of two CNRP lawmakers during a pro-CPP protest in front of the National Assembly as an example of how “Hun Sen can only resort to fascist methods in order to cling on to power.”
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Ratanakkiri official defends disputed land
A Ministry of Interior immigration official at the centre of a long-running land dispute in a gem mining district of Ratanakkiri spoke out for the first time yesterday, just days after 200 villagers protested what they termed their illegal eviction. The villagers from Bakeo district’s Keh Chung commune claim they had been farming and mining for gems on the land in Keh Chung since 2005, and said Heng Socheat had no right to evict them as he had bought the land using aliases and possessed invalid land titles. Socheat, accompanied by the chief of Roy village and three other village representatives, yesterday denied the protesters’ accusations and showed the Post documents that he says prove he owns the land.
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After Attack on Lawmakers, Assembly to Reconvene
Four days after two opposition lawmakers were beaten while leaving the National Assembly, parliament is set to convene again this morning to pass changes to its internal rules and potentially decide on the future of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha. Almost half of the CNRP’s delegation of 55 lawmakers are currently abroad, with many in Thailand to support Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea, who were hospitalized after being repeatedly stomped on and kicked in the face during a CPP protest on Monday.
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Gov’t Cancels 7 Carbon Credit Contracts
The Environment Ministry has canceled contracts for seven out of eight carbon credit projects that it approved between 2011 and 2013, dealing another blow to efforts to turn protected forests into a potential revenue stream for locals. A statement issued by the ministry on Friday said one company would be allowed to continue its feasibility study, while contracts with seven other firms had been scrapped. Srun Darith, deputy cabinet chief at the Environment Ministry, said the projects—which were all in the study stage—had been canceled because the companies were not making enough effort to start trading carbon.
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Hun Sen talks poverty
Prime Minister Hun Sen has outlined Cambodia’s strategy for tackling poverty in a keynote speech to a United Nations forum in Beijing marking the 2015 International Day for Eradication of Poverty. Addressing the gathering of leaders on Friday, the premier lauded the 1 billion people brought out of poverty worldwide since 1990, noting Cambodia’s achievement in reducing the population living below the poverty line from 53.2 per cent to 13.5 per cent between 2004 and 2014. Yet he also emphasised the continued risk of thousands of Cambodians slipping below the threshold into poverty.
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Brothers Arrested for Kidnapping 9 Children
Two brothers were provisionally charged with unlawful removal of children Sunday after being arrested on Friday in Ratanakkiri province for kidnapping nine children from two separate pagodas in Kon Mom district, police said. “We have rescued nine children in total, aged between 8 and 14, including three Kroeng ethnic minority children,” said deputy district police chief Ren Mut, adding that the brothers—Thai Phim, 63, and Chin Kim, 53—had bribed the boys. “They gave the children 2,000 riel [$0.50] each and promised to bring them to the new place where they could earn more money,” Mr. Mut said.
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Garment unions weigh protests
Garment workers unions unhappy with next year’s recently announced $140 minimum wage for the sector will meet this week to determine whether or not to hold demonstrations to protest the disappointingly low figure. The unions were pushing for $160 a month when the government announced the new wage on October 8, just before the Pchum Ben holidays. Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, said he would meet with around six other union leaders on Wednesday to plan the unions’ next step. “We will make our decision on that day,” he said.
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Discrimination Against LGBT Community ‘High’
ALTHOUGH the government has expressed support of the increasingly visible lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Cambodia, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) says the community still faces widespread discrimination, especially in schools. So, the center has created an introduction to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) program to help protect the LGBT community and inform the wider public. “We provide skills training, supply small grants, publish reports, and run an online web portal full of useful tools,” the center said in a statement. Its SOGI project coordinator, Nuon Sidara, said: “LGBT discrimination is still high, especially in schools. However, the government shows it supports their rights and we will work with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport. “As we know, LGBT rights are protected in several ways, including the ‘Fourth Women Jewel Principle’ of the Women’s Affairs Ministry. But we still want to know how they continue to do afterwards.”
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Kem Sokha: Judicial Reform a Priority
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha said the first thing his party would do if they win the national election in 2018 would be to reform the Cambodian judiciary system. In a speech to party supporters in Banteay Meas district, Kampot province, he said the main goal of the CNRP was to enact widespread changes to the way government works in the Kingdom. But he stressed that these changes must come through peaceful elections. ‘National unity’ and ‘political stability’ are two tenets his party would follow if they come to power, he said. “The CNRP will use all necessary means to make citizens from all walks of life have equal rights to politics, economics and social affairs,” Mr. Sokha said. “Until now, the CNRP never considers someone with different political trends as an enemy. The CNRP won’t avenge anybody either.”
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No Voting Rights for Cambodians Abroad
Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights – voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in Thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the Cambodian elections. As a scholarship student in Bangkok with a heavy course load, he couldn’t make the trip back home to cast his vote. “I did not have a chance to vote...because based on Cambodia’s law there is no voting abroad,” he said. “I’m just an ordinary citizen. I just want to vote.”
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