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Ministry Says NGO Law a Resounding Success
More than 30 non-government groups have recently applied to register with the state or asked for changes to their current registration records, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry that hailed the requests as broad endorsement of Cambodia’s highly controversial new NGO law.
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Cambodia to Accept More Refugees Next Month
A mixed group of refugees is set to arrive in Cambodia next month under an agreement with Australia. Three refugees from Iran and a Rohingya from Myanmar will arrive in October as part of the agreement. Reports say Cambodia will receive as much as $40 million in aid from Australia in exchange for accepting the asylum seekers. The refugees have been living temporarily on the Pacific island of Nauru. They are second group to go to Cambodia. Khieu Sopheak is with Cambodia’s Interior Ministry. On Monday he spoke about the refugees and their expected arrival time. “The ministry is sending officials to interview them (in Nauru),” he said
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Employee allegedly hit at protest
A protest over attendance bonuses among workers at a factory in southern Phnom Penh turned violent yesterday morning, after the factory owner’s driver allegedly assaulted a worker. Eam Sinavuth reportedly punched Tep Vannaroth as he tried to rally other protesting workers to assist a co-worker, who was denied access to the factory after arrived late for a shift. “He punched me on the edge of my right eye and he tried to grab me, but I escaped,” Vannaroth said yesterday.
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Farmer, 68, Arrested for Raping Girl, 8, in Kompong Chhnang
A 68-year-old man was arrested in Kompong Chhnang province on Tuesday on suspicion of raping an 8-year-old girl in July, a police official said Wednesday.
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Koreans, Kok An face off in land dispute
A tense stand-off between staff from a South Korean development firm and representatives of tycoon and ruling party Senator Kok An took place in northern Phnom Penh yesterday, over what the Korean company says is an attempted land grab. More than 20 Korean and Cambodian staff members from developer World City held up placards and prevented excavators and a bulldozer from moving onto the land in Tuol Kork district that Kok An claims, despite legal documents that World City says prove it was purchased from him a decade ago. “Their actions towards us clearly reflect a violation of our rights as foreign investors, who have always abided by and protected the [country’s] laws,” World City senior vice president Seung Hyung Lee said yesterday.
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Consensus On Wage Eludes Unions On First Try
Union leaders representing some of the country’s 700,000 garment workers failed Wednesday in their first attempt to agree on how much of a raise they would ask for to the current minimum wage of $128 in coming negotiations.
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Four refugees detained by Australia on Nauru volunteer to resettle in Cambodia
Three Iranians and a Rohingya from Myanmar are among hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers detained in detention centre on the South Pacific island Four more refugees detained by Australia on Nauru have volunteered to be resettled in Cambodia and are to have their bids assessed over the next few weeks.
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As UN Envoy Arrives, Rights Defenders Question Sway
As Rhona Smith, the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, began her first official visit to the country Wednesday, leading human rights activists were at odds over how much her position could influence the situation on the ground.
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Interior Minister Defends Facebook Post Arrests
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday laid out the limits to freedom of expression in Cambodia, highlighting two recent arrests over Facebook posts and what he claimed was a thwarted plan by the CNRP to burn effigies of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Police Block Protest Convoy on Way to Land Trial
A group of villagers from Svay Rieng province involved in a land dispute with the Forestry Administration said police officers attempted to block them from traveling to the provincial court Wednesday morning to protest against the trial of three community leaders.
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Minister Confirms Trip to Nauru to Screen Refugees
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday said Cambodia would send officials to Nauru within weeks to start screening a new group of refugees interested in moving here as part of a resettlement deal with Australia.
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Petitioners in Phnom Penh
Some 100 representatives of communities in Svay Rieng and Kratie provinces gathered to present petitions to the National Assembly yesterday, seeking the body’s intervention in two land dispute cases in their home provinces. In the Svay Rieng case, villagers accused authorities of kicking some 300 families off of their land, only to later redistribute it to just a handful of the former occupants.
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UN rights envoy due to arrive today
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, will begin her first visit to the Kingdom today, almost six months after it was announced she would be taking the job. Smith will be in Cambodia for nine days, during which she will meet Prime Minister Hun Sen, Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng and other senior government figures. She will also meet representatives of civil society and local community groups and members of the donor community. “I am looking forward to engaging in a constructive dialogue with the Royal Government and people of Cambodia to further promote and protect human rights in the country,” Smith said in a statement issued by her office yesterday.
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Monk who ‘raped girl’ is expelled
A monk in Kratie province was defrocked and arrested on Monday after allegations surfaced that he raped a minor near his pagoda in Tamao commune. According to a report from Prek Prasap district police, 20-year-old Nam Bun Nang was defrocked after the family of a 14-year-old girl filed a complaint alleging that he had raped her at their home on Sunday, while all of her relatives were out. “He came out from the pagoda wearing a simple suit and entered the victim’s house near the pagoda to rape the girl,” the report says. “One day later, the family filed a complaint to police. We arrested him immediately after he was defrocked.”
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Freedom of net defined amid fears
Amid fears the government is seeking to further its control and regulation of the internet, the Cambodia Centre for Independent Media (CCIM) yesterday put forward eight principles of web freedom to define Cambodians’ rights online. The release followed the Interior Ministry’s announcement last week of an anti-cyber crime unit, which will have powers to prosecute vaguely defined offences, such as insults and incitement. CCIM’s So Sorthy said that the principles were a starting point to engage with government as it continues drafting a cyber crime law, a previous draft of which was widely condemned for undermining civil liberties.
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Court finds teen guilty in rape case
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted a 15-year-old boy of raping an 8-year-old girl in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district late last year. Judge Pich Maren said that “based on the hearing, and the accused’s confession”, high school student Rorn Vanak was guilty of rape as defined under Article 239 of the Penal Code, which carries a prison sentence of between five and 10 years. “But because he is a minor, the court decides to mitigate his sentence . . . so the court sentences him to 18 months in prison,” she explained.
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Thailand Returns Dozens of Detained Illegal Loggers
Thailand on Friday repatriated 58 Cambodians who had illegally crossed the border to log rosewood trees in the hope of hauling them back to Cambodia, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement released Tuesday.
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Cambodia Sees World’s Fastest Acceleration of Forest Loss
Forest loss in Cambodia between 2001 and 2014 accelerated at a faster rate than in any other country in the world, according to new global figures based on U.S. satellite data.
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Cassava Plantation Gang Rape Suspect Arrested
Police in Stung Treng province said Tuesday that they arrested a man on suspicion of taking part in the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman in a cassava field last week.
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Four more of Australia's unwanted to head to Cambodia
Cambodian Interior Minister tells Anadolu Agency that 4 further refugees - 3 Iranians and a Rohingya Muslim - will be resettled as part of controversial deal with Australia Cambodian officials are to assess a group of four refugees who “volunteered a few months ago” to be resettled in Cambodia as part of a landmark deal with Australia, the Interior Minister confirmed on Tuesday. General Khieu Sopheak told Anadolu Agency that the three Iranians and one Rohingya Muslim -- presently detained on the South Pacific island of Nauru -- will be following in the footsteps of the first refugee volunteers once they have had their paperwork approved by the government.
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