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Homes Destroyed in Blaze; Villagers Suspect Arson
Twenty-six homes in a village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district burned to the ground Saturday night in a fire that villagers suspect was started in retaliation for their refusal to obey an order by City Hall to vacate the area.
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Montagnards reach city
After more than seven weeks of hiding in the forests of Ratanakkiri province to avoid deportation, 13 Vietnamese Montagnards arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday to submit asylum requests. The group of 12 men and one woman claim to be fleeing religious persecution in Vietnam, where the northern minority hill tribes have been subjected to police raids, arrests, beatings and forced renunciations of Christian faith. “I’m OK. I’m with the UN now. I don’t want to go back [to Vietnam],” one of the Montagnards said yesterday.
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Montagnards, UN finally meet
A group of eight Montagnard asylum seekers, hiding in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district since fleeing Vietnam in November, walked out of the jungle this morning to meet with UN officials sent to check on their condition, a rights group said. The group, which has claimed religious persecution in their home country, has been playing a game of cat and mouse with local authorities for weeks.
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Power-Grid Study to Tackle Supply Problems
U.S. conglomerate General Electric on Thursday inked a $1 million deal with Cambodia’s state-owned Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) to conduct a six-month study to identify weaknesses in Cambodia’s electrical grid with the aim of enhancing the reliability of the power supply.
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Monks Turn Over Alms Bowls to Protest Jailing of Activists
A group of monks Thursday overturned their alms bowls outside the Ministry of Justice in Phnom Penh in symbolic protest against the recent imprisonment of 18 activists, opposition figures and fellow monks.
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Election NGOs to Begin Testing New Voter Registration System
Testing of a computerized voter registration system will begin next month in the hopes of addressing flaws in the current system, which remains susceptible to election fraud, a coalition of NGOs working to promote democracy in the country announced Thursday.
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Gov’t Accepts Request for Law to Ban Monks Voting
The government on Thursday formally accepted a request from Cambodia’s top Buddhist monks to consider drafting a law that would ban the country’s more than 50,000 monks from voting.
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Refugee limbo: Montagnard mission still languishing
UN officials are still being blocked by provincial authorities from visiting a group of 13 desperate Montagnard asylum seekers hiding in the jungles of Ratanakkiri, more than a week after officials travelled to the northeastern province for a second time.
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Gov’t Launches Three-Year Roadmap on Migrant Labor Policy
The Labor Ministry on Thursday launched a new three-year policy for improving the lot of Cambodia’s more than 700,000 migrant workers that includes plans to step up monitoring of the country’s often-abusive recruitment agencies and add labor attachés to more embassies.
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Border killing prompts demand
Cambodia’s government has demanded Thailand investigate the killing of a Cambodian women shot in the head by Thai soldiers after straying across the border in search of food. In a fiercely worded letter sent to the Thai Embassy in Cambodia, the Kingdom’s Foreign Affairs Ministry condemned the shooting and called for Thailand’s government to stop its soldiers from killing Khmer citizens in the border region.
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Gov’t announces new labour migration roadmap
Commemorating International Migrants Day yesterday, the government launched its second Labour Migration Policy, outlining new targets to regulate the Kingdom’s migrant workforce, while also noting that more than a third of its first such plan didn’t accomplish much.
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Ministry Condemns Thai Soldier’s ‘Barbarian Acts’
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent an irate letter to the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh condemning the shooting of a 55-year-old Cambodian woman near the Thai border on December 9.
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Hun Sen Doubts Veracity of HIV Outbreak
C) to conduct a six-month study to identify weaknesses in Cambodia’s electrical grid with the aim of enhancing the reliability of the power supply. December 19, 2014 Court Allows Polonsky to Stay On Private Island—For Now The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court prosecutor who endorsed a notice ordering fugitive Russian oligarch Sergei Polonsky to vacate his private island off the coast of Sihanoukville by December 15 said Thursday that the court would take no immediate action to remove Mr. Polonsky. December 19, 2014 Hun Sen Doubts Veracity of HIV Outbreak
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Body of Girl Raped, Murdered Found in Tonle Sap Lake
The body of a 10-year-old girl believed to have been raped and murdered was found floating in the Tonle Sap lake in Pursat province on Tuesday, two days after she went missing from her home in Krakor district, police said Wednesday.
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Clergy Seeks Law to Ban Monks From Voting
Tep Vong, the great supreme patriarch of Cambodia’s Mohanikaya Buddhist sect, renewed his call Wednesday for monks not to vote or otherwise take part in the country’s elections, this time urging the government to put the restrictions into law.
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Artist Draws on Anguished Childhood to Create Haunting Imagery
Through his paintings, Mil Chankrim shares his story as experienced by the boy he once was. This haunting—and haunted—private sphere, often represented by either bold or oppressively pallid backgrounds, forms the emotional backdrop to Mr. Chankrim’s troubled childhood.
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Arrests made in acid case
The parents of a brother-sister duo accused of a horrific acid attack on a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter have been arrested. Nhe Deng, 56, and his wife Seng Kim Leng, 55, were detained by police yesterday in Takeo province’s Kiri Vong district.
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General Put on Interpol’s Most-Wanted List
Defense Ministry official Thong Sarath, who has been on the run since he was charged earlier this month with organizing the assassination of a prominent Phnom Penh businessman, has been placed on Interpol’s red notice list of most wanted criminals.
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Calls Made for More Women to Join Politics, Civil Service
During the launch of a five-year plan to promote gender equality in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, senior government officials praised improvements in female representation in government, but conceded that discrimination is still prevalent.
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With Higher Wages After Strike, Cintri Workers Back on the Job
After a two-day strike that saw trash quickly pile up along Phnom Penh’s streets, more than 1,000 workers for the city’s only trash collection company, Cintri, agreed to return to their jobs Wednesday after being promised pay raises.
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