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Fearing Land Sale, Villagers Petition Embassies
About 100 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province marched through Phnom Penh on Tuesday petitioning foreign embassies to help halt the sale or development of a disputed plot of land that is claimed by a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem.
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Region drives deforestation: org
A new report released by the conservation group WWF has asserted that just 11 places on earth – including the Greater Mekong region – account for 80 per cent of the world’s deforestation.
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Management reaches deal with strikers
About 150 striking workers from a Japanese-owned garment factory in Svay Rieng province yesterday ended a nearly 10-day work stoppage after marching to the provincial hall and negotiating with factory officials. Workers at Nissey Factory in the Bavet Special Economic Zone made 16 demands, including an end to forced overtime and allowing workers to eat lunch at the factory, worker representative Pich Khemara said.
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Workers back after wage dispute
On Sunday, 71 migrant workers returned to Cambodia after being denied pay and forced to work overtime at a fish farming and packing facility in Thailand. According to one worker, who declined to be named, the Cambodians left in early April and worked more than 20 days at KCT factory in Thailand’s Pathumthani province. However, when the factory announced last week that the workers would not receive a paycheck on May 2, they contacted CDM Trading Manpower, the Cambodian agency that recruited them, and the company intervened.
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Prey Lang network says authorities profit from illegal logging
Political and business elites have been directly involved in and profited from illegal logging in the Prey Lang forest in northern Cambodia, according to a new report from members of the Prey Lang Community Network. The 142-page study, titled Our Forest Remains Under Destruction and released yesterday, says law enforcement and forest management officials consistently fail to act in the face of illegal activity in the forest, for which they also lack concrete prevention measures.
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HRW calls for release of NGO draft law text
A major rights group yesterday urged the government to drop plans to adopt a controversial law next month that it says could severely restrict the activities of non-governmental organisations and associations. In a statement, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the government to “immediately” make public the long-disputed draft law on associations and non-governmental organisations and engage NGOs “in an open consultation process”.
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Villagers in court over bulldozer ‘detention’
At least eight villagers in Preah Vihear’s Tbeng Meanchey district have been ordered to appear in court for questioning in relation to allegations that they illegally detained two bulldozer operators working for Chinese concessionaires Lan Feng and Rui Feng.
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Report Implicates Officials in Prey Long Logging
Local and national government officials are complicit in the widespread illegal logging that continues to devastate the sprawling Prey Long forest in the country’s north, according to a report released Monday by the Prey Long Community Network.
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Disputants questioned in Oddar Meanchey
Villagers in Oddar Meanchey were questioned in court yesterday after 11 families were sued by a businessman who says he owns 20 hectares of land they occupy. Four representatives of the families appeared in Oddar Meanchey Provincial Court, defending their right to the piece of 49 hectares of land in Trapaing Prasat district’s Preah Brolay commune that Pheng Siphal claims he owns.
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Troops sent to Ratanakkiri border area
Almost 1,000 Cambodian soldiers have been deployed along the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province in an effort to combat crimes including “illegal immigration”, military officials said yesterday. Lam Thuon, acting police chief in Paknhai commune, where 50 soldiers have been stationed, said that troops began being deployed to the border on Thursday.
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Authorities Probe Shooting Death of Man In Thailand
A Cambodian migrant worker was shot dead by a Thai foreman at the construction site where he was working last week in Thailand’s Chachoengsao province, a border official said Sunday.
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Homecoming: Thai prisons release 55 loggers
Thai prisons released 55 Cambodian illegal loggers over the weekend, after the group had spent about two years in prison for their offences. The 55 were sent back via the Cambodian-Thai border crossing in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district at about 2pm on Saturday, Touch Ra, director of the Choam-Sangam border checkpoint, said yesterday.
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Garment Association Re-Elects Chairman, Approves Term Limit
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia re-elected Van Sou Ieng as chairman—a position he has held for nearly two decades—at its annual general meeting on Saturday but approved a new two-term limit on the two-year post.
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NGOs irate over gov’t ‘hijack’
Members of Cambodia’s civil society are rebuking their representation at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum last week, alleging the Kingdom’s civil society representatives were disproportionately government-aligned. A statement released by six high-ranking NGO officials says that a national voting process, which elected SILAKA executive director Thida Khus to represent Cambodian civil society at a meeting held during the four-day summit in Kuala Lumpur, was ignored by the government. Instead, Doung Viroth, director of the Council of Ministers’ Department of Civil Society, NGO and Human Rights was sent.
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Woman Jailed in Land Dispute Wins Release
After five months in jail, a woman whose family is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear was released on bail from Prey Sar prison on Friday, though the fight between the two parties remains unresolved.
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NEC Says Japan, EU to Aid Election Reforms
A spokesman for the newly reconstituted National Election Committee said Friday that Japan and the European Union have agreed to send experts to Cambodia next month to look for ways to improve the country’s flawed voter lists and to better educate voters.
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Prison Refuses to Release Woman Despite Order From Court
Despite an order from the Supreme Court, officials at Prey Sar prison Thursday refused to release a woman on bail who has been jailed since November as part of a bitter land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear, her lawyer said.
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Prison officials ‘ignoring’ bail order
Officials at Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison have ignored a Supreme Court order permitting the bail of activist Ly Seav Minh, whose family is embroiled in a long-running land dispute with a politically connected company, her lawyer said yesterday. Defence lawyer Choung Choungy said he sent the April 22 Supreme Court order to the prison yesterday, but claimed officials refused to grant Seav Minh’s release, citing a lack of documentation.
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Villagers protest sand dredging
Villagers from Koh Kong province’s Koh Kapi commune petitioned the National Assembly’s Environment Commission yesterday to raise in parliament an ongoing dispute over sand dredging, two weeks after local NGO Mother Nature began protests against a company they accuse of destroying the environment. You Sophal, one of seven community representatives who came to the capital yesterday, called on Commission Chairman Pol Ham, an opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker, to intervene against the Vietnamese-owned International Rainbow Company.
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Hang Puthea selected as NEC spokesperson
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party on Wednesday officially agreed to appoint Hang Puthea as the official spokesperson of the recently formed National Election Committee (NEC). “I will play my role as a neutral member by providing accurate information related to electoral issues to the media and the public,” Puthea said yesterday
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