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Another Push for Lucrative Kampot Coastland to Remain Salt-Producing
A sub-decree from May, released publicly this week, details the creation of an inter-ministerial committee to incentivize salt production.
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Protesters Beaten Ahead of Paris Peace Agreements 30th Anniversary
Chak Sopheap, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, agreed, saying “We have to be frank, few ordinary people are talking about the Paris Peace Agreements, but they are trying to exercise fundamental freedoms.”
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Paris Peace Agreements’ vision has yet to be realised 30 years later
The agreements signed on 23 October 1991 marked the end of a century in Cambodia marred by colonial rule, barbaric authoritarianism, a brutal genocide, foreign occupation and internal turmoil. The combined conventions and treaties sought to not only put conflict behind, but also give Cambodia independence and ensure its right to self-determination.
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Exile, False Starts, ‘Red Book’: The Years Leading to Cambodia’s Precarious Reconciliation
The late King Norodom Sihanouk, yet to be reinstated to the throne at the time, and Prime Minister Hun Sen, standing in a motorcade on the streets of Phnom Penh, their hands clasped, arms raised in triumph before a cheering crowd, the joy on their faces frozen in time and film.
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PPA legacy: Cambodia marks 30 years of Peace, Progress and Autonomy
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements (PPA) which brought the four warring factions in Cambodia to the negotiating table mediated by the international community that eventually led to an end to the more than two decades of civil strife in the country and the first democratic elections sponsored by the United Nations in 1993.
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PLAN campaign to assist girls and young women
Plan International Cambodia (PIC) announced plans to empower girls and young women in Cambodia over the next five years with its 2.5 Million Reasons campaign as it virtually celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child.
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Court hands prison sentences to eight journalists in timber extortion case
Kim Samleng, the provincial court’s deputy prosecutor, told CamboJA that seven of the journalists were sentenced to two years in prison but will serve a term of only four months and 20 days, with the rest of their sentence suspended. Those journalists are: Kim Hean, 42, Vong Nimol, 41, Kim Hong, 40, Roeung Chhon, 40, Sam Saroeun, 49, Soeung Sophy, 42, and Chhay Leav, 51.
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Cambodia's Internet Gateway Ushers in Silence, Media Say
Radio reporter Khut Sokun says he is doing less reporting this year. The reason: fear of Cambodia's national internet gateway, which he and others say allows the government to monitor all online activity.
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Anonymous Letter Leads to Investigation of Siem Reap Police Official for Corruption
A Siem Reap district police official is under investigation by provincial supervisors after an anonymous letter alleged he was extorting illegal gambling establishments and his subordinates.
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21 journalists harassed in past three months, reports CamboJA
Horn Mariavana, a 20-year-old freelance reporter working with VOD, said she has been challenged a few times by officials when going out to collect information. She’s also heard “lots of threats and harassment” directed by officials toward other journalists.
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World Habitat Day Plea on Evictions
Communities and civil society organizations have called for an end to land grabs and unfair and unjust development projects by foreign and local investors.
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Court hears Mother Nature trio’s incitement case appeals
Phnom Penh Court of Appeal yesterday heard the appeal case of three youth activists working for Mother Nature Cambodia. The three were sentenced in May by the municipal court for incitement against the authorities and the Government, committed between 2017 and 2020 in the country.
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Climate: Removing CO2 from the air no longer optional
Even scientists sceptical about its feasibility agree that without carbon dioxide removal (CDR) -- aka "negative emission" -- it will be very difficult to meet the Paris Agreement goal of capping global warming below two degrees Celsius.
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Strike out for opposition CNHP
The Interior Ministry has defended its decision not to validate the newly created opposition Cambodia National Heart Party (CNHP) after the party failed to fulfil all conditions and criteria mentioned in the Law on Political Parties.
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‘We Are the Enemies of Environmental Destruction’
The jailed Mother Nature environmentalist, convicted of incitement and now awaiting trial for plotting, is accused of working against the state with videos asking questions of landfilling, sewage discharges, sand dredging and associated corruption.
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Minister: Lawyers indispensable in promoting justice in Kingdom
Minister of Justice Koeut Rith expects the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) to work harder at improving the country’s judicial system in its new mandate. The call came as BAKC announced its 33 newly elected members after an election on October 18.
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Gov’t refutes Licadho claim of 1,000s of families in land disputes
The government has refuted claims by the Cambodia League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (Licadho) that thousands of families have been involved in land disputes for the last two years and some are detained in prison for voicing their grievances.
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TOP NEWS: Cambodia Reports 195 New Cases of COVID19; 279 Recovered; 12 Died (8 Not Vaccinated)
Cambodia reported 195 new cases of COVID19, 12 patients died, while 279 patients recovered on Monday, according to the Ministry of Health's press release dated 18 October 2021.
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Thousands of Hectares of State Land Privatized in Latest Decrees
Seventeen decrees within the span of a month have privatized 5,000 hectares — nine plots on Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake, benefiting several military commanders; hundreds of hectares near the disputed, under-construction new international airport; and the whole of central Kep.
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Government to release banknote with image of Hun Sen, late King to mark 30th anniversary of Paris Peace Agreements
Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said her organization is reminding the government that respecting the peace agreements does not only mean ensuring the absence of war or internal armed conflict. Rather, Sopheap said, the spirit of the agreements demands a society where social justice, equality, respect for human rights, and robust democratic institutions are respected and flourishing.
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