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Soldiers Claim General Sold Off School Land
The Ministry of Defense and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) sent two teams to Siem Reap City over the weekend to investigate a high-profile land dispute between a senior general and a unit of soldiers, officials said on Sunday.
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Chea Mony ends long run as FTU’s president
Free Trade Union president Chea Mony yesterday stepped down from the leadership role he assumed after the assassination of his brother 12 years ago, with the union finding Toch Ser as his successor during yesterday’s annual congress. At a gathering of more than 500 union members in the capital, Ser said she was pleased to take on the new role and vowed to continue the union’s commitment to worker rights.
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Sovantha files another CNRP defamation suit
Thy Sovantha has filed a defamation complaint against two CNRP activists for questioning the attendance figures at a forum organised by her NGO in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district. The complaint, filed on June 24, alleges that Mounh Sarath, head of the CNRP taskforce for the province, and Oun Vansak, administrator of the I love Cambodia Hot News II Facebook page, took to social media to say her forum had only 70 attendees when, by her count, there were actually about 900.
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Kingdom's only Cham radio show goes dark
Cambodia's only Cham-language radio program has been quietly shuttered, with a bitter land dispute centred on the Boeung Kak mosque identified by some as the trigger. Radio Sap Cham, a daily hour-long radio program aimed at a Cham Muslim audience, was cancelled two weeks ago and replaced with music on the airwaves.
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CNRP leaders slated to meet Rainsy in Manila
Four senior opposition officials will meet with leader-in-exile Sam Rainsy on Tuesday in the Philippines to discuss the heated political situation, as Prime Minister Hun Sen continues to raise the spectre of colour revolutions. Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmakers Pol Ham, Eng Chhay Eang, Ou Chanrith and Yim Sovann will travel to meet Rainsy, with the notable absence of Kem Sokha, who remains holed up at the party headquarters to avoid arrest in relation to an ongoing sex scandal. Chanrith said the Kem Sokha affair was the impetus for the Manila meet – the second such gathering since March.
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CPP shirt distribution apolitical, official says
Provincial education authorities have denied that giving students pink T-shirts with the words “I love the Cambodian People’s Party” to wear during a CPP event was a violation of the Education Ministry’s ban on political propaganda in schools. Pursat High School principal Aing Sakmony – who could not be reached for comment – handed out the T-shirts, which also bore the CPP’s logo, to grade 10 and 11 students on Saturday to wear during a workshop at the CPP’s provincial headquarters yesterday.
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Leader of Country’s Oldest Union Replaced
A former garment worker was appointed on Sunday to replace Chea Mony as the head of the Free Trade Union, six years after Mr. Mony first announced his intention to step down and two decades after his late brother launched the country’s labor movement.
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Koh Kong fishermen struggle in the shadow of sand dredgers
Phen Sophany cuts the motor as the boat nears the centre of a mangrove-lined estuary in Koh Kong province, near the isolated fishing village of Koh Sralav. “This is where the island used to be,” the 38-year-old member of environmental activist group Mother Nature says, the village visible in the distance.
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Kem Sokha Marks One Month in Headquarters
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha marked a month in self-imposed house arrest in the opposition party’s headquarters in Phnom Penh on Sunday, with no indication that he plans to leave and authorities proving reluctant to force their way in to seize him. Mr. Sokha has been hiding in the CNRP’s headquarters since May 26, when police tried to storm the building to arrest him over his failure to appear in court over an extramarital affair authorities have been zealously pursuing since March.
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Woman Charged Over Post Claiming Prime Minister’s Death
The Battambang provincial court on Sunday charged a local woman with making an insult after a post appeared on her Facebook page claiming—falsely—that Prime Minister Hun Sen had died in a plane crash and calling on the public to celebrate. A message posted on Tuesday to Pang Sina’s Facebook page, using the name Sina Neakmeas, reads: “Samdech Techo Hun Sen died in a plane crash. Please join in celebrating.”
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Cambodian Laborers Deported, Repatriated
Sixteen Cambodian migrants along with six of their children were deported from Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province last Thursday, while four Cambodians were repatriated from Malaysia on Saturday, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs statements. The deportees were arrested in raids by Thai provincial authorities and immigration officials on three plaster-making workshops, Ministry spokesman Chum Sounry said.
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Christians safe on his watch, PM tells group
Hun Sen assured representatives of Cambodia’s Christian community on Saturday afternoon that they will face no persecution while he is in power. Speaking at Koh Pich City Hall, the prime minister announced he had extended his protection to the Kingdom’s Christians.
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Duch, defence teams spar
Former S-21 chief Kaing Guek Eav told the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday that if he had known the true threat Vietnamese troops posed to the regime in 1979, he would have destroyed the deadly prison. Eav, better known as Duch, said he was instructed by Case 002 defendant and Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan to continue working as usual, and not to destroy the slew of photographs and documents produced at the prison where more than 12,000 were sent to their deaths.
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Disgraced Education Ministry Official Censured
A senior Education Ministry official who was charged with sexual assault during a work trip to South Korea in May has been stripped of his position, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
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Official Demoted for Sexual Harrassment
After sexually assaulting a South Korean interpreter assigned to him during an official three-day visit to South Korea, the head of the Ministry of Education’s Professional Development Department was demoted yesterday. Kry Seang Long was in Seoul from May 23-25 for the Asean+3 HRD Forum when he molested his female interpreter, local media reported.
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‘Black Monday’ should be quelled, says CHRC head
The head of the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) said the civil society-backed “Black Monday” campaign needs to be quelled given that it had the potential to flare up like the violent Veng Sreng Boulevard minimum wage protests in 2014. The campaign has so far involved small, nonviolent gatherings calling for the release of rights workers jailed in a case widely criticised as politically motivated, with participants wearing black to “mourn the death of human rights in Cambodia”. Several of the gatherings have been forcibly disrupted by police, resulting in the brief detention of several attendees.
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Education official out after arrest in South Korea
A senior Education Ministry official, arrested for sexually harassing an interpreter while representing the government at an international conference in South Korea, has had his post terminated, the ministry announced yesterday. In a statement, the Education Ministry said Kry Seang Long was relegated and is no longer director of the Vocational Orientation Department.
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Capital residents seek info on new road plan
Residents of Russey Keo district delivered a petition to Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday demanding a public forum be held to discuss plans to transform a railway line in Kilometre 6 commune into a road. Community representative Meas Sreymom said trackside residents have been kept in the dark about the development, despite requesting information since the end of May.
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NEC's Chakrya back in court
Jailed election official Ny Chakrya faced court for additional questioning yesterday, with the interrogation centring on his communications with four jailed Adhoc staffers and a UN official. Sam Sokong, the National Election Committee official’s lawyer, said investigating judge Theam Chanpiseth’s tone during the two-hour interrogation was accusatory, especially when asking questions relating to Chakrya’s interactions with his fellow accused and salon worker and complainant Khom Chandaraty’s lawyer at the time, Try Chhun.
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Rainsy told ‘go to jail’ at US meeting with supporters
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was publicly accused of cowardice this week during a meeting with supporters in the United States, with one man slamming the CNRP president for lacking bravery in his decision to flee Cambodia for self-exile in Europe. The stinging criticism – which Rainsy tried to deflect with well-trodden lines about Vietnamese influence in Cambodia – came at a Monday event in Lowell, Massachusetts, a video of which was uploaded to the CNRP president’s Facebook yesterday.
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