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Mother of Khmer Krom monk says denied access to jailed son
The mother of a young ex-monk who was arrested and defrocked last week for bringing a bag of flags to protesters at a Phnom Penh pagoda claims she was prevented from visiting her son at Prey Sar prison Tuesday after traveling there from Vietnam. Khit Vannak, 26, and fellow former monk Sang Kosal, 19, were arrested on November 12 while attempting to bring two bags of Cambodian and Buddhist flags to villagers from Preah Vihear province ahead of a planned march to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house to bring attention to their land dispute.
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Med resistance a threat to SE Asia
In line with the global trend of infections becoming increasingly resistant to even the strongest medications, Asia’s once powerful antibiotics are being rendered ineffective by misuse, experts at Asean warned yesterday.
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Family of Fire victims demand compensation
The families of three of the five people killed in a fire that gutted a Siem Reap City nightclub in the early hours of Tuesday are demanding between $3,000 and $4,000 each in compensation from the venue’s owner, a police official said Wednesday. Just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, a blaze ripped through the Hip Hop Restaurant & Discotheque, killing four Cambodians—Prum Phiron and Soeun Savon, both 31; Cheng Savien, 33; and Chea Sreiny, 36—and an Australian national, Tom Ricketson, 32, according to deputy Siem Reap provincial police chief Thorng Sakun.
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Mother, toddler victims of acid
A mother and her 2-year-old daughter were seriously injured in an acid attack yesterday morning in Takeo province’s Kiri Vong district, the third such attack this year and first since July. Police are currently on the lookout for the brother-sister duo who allegedly doused the pair in acid over an unspecified business dispute, a departure from historical motives for attacks such as jealousy.
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Fishermen home after ordeal on Thai boat
Twenty Cambodian fisherman were repatriated yesterday after recovering in Indonesia, where they were rescued from Thai trawler they were forced to work on, according to statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Hun Sen Claims He Has ‘No Power’ Over Courts
Reacting to major criticism over arrests and jailing of activists this month, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday said he does not have “any power” over the judiciary to interfere in their cases. “If I had the power, I would order the courts to release them,” Hun Sen said, while then warning activists “not to block the road” with their demonstrations. In fact, Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party is widely and frequently criticized for using the courts as a tool against dissidents.
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Unions, bosses ink deal to end SL garment factory dispute
A year after violent clashes broke out between workers from the SL Garment Factory and gun-wielding security forces, leading to the shooting death of a bystander, representatives for workers and management at the factory signed off on a list of agreements this week to end the dispute. The agreement, dated Monday, lists seven articles agreed upon during a meeting between representatives of the factory and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) at the Labor Ministry. Among the points are that SL shareholder Meas Sotha, who has acted as a manager at the factory for much of the past two years, will no longer take part in day-to-day operations at the factory. The company also agreed to pay workers who protested in front of the factory gate for months last year a total of $300,000, about half of the wages they lost during the strikes.
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Member of Cobra-attack Family in hiding
After her husband and daughter were arrested and jailed in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, the matriarch of a family locked in a land dispute with developer Khun Sear and his eponymous import-export firm was in hiding with her 18-year-old son Wednesday—fearing she’d be next. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, and his daughter, Ly Searminh, 23, were placed in pretrial detention at Prey Sar prison on Tuesday after being charged under the country’s Land Law with using violence against a property owner, according to their lawyer, Han Meng Hoeung.
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NA questions Angkor revenue
In a three-hour meeting yesterday, parliamentarians grilled Minister of Tourism Thong Kong about the lack of transparency surrounding Angkor Wat’s ticket sales and the amount shared with Cambodia’s national budget.
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Cyber War Team to Monitor Web
The Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit has created a “Cyber War Team” to monitor and collect information from Facebook and other websites in order to “protect the government’s stance and prestige,” according to a proclamation published in the Royal Gazette. The document, signed by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An and published on October 15, says that the Cyber War Team (CWT) will monitor and diffuse information from “websites, Facebook, Twitter, Google-plus, blogs, YouTube and other media outlets.” “The CWT’s mission, role and obligations are to investigate, collect, analyze and compile all forms of national and international news to use as the basis…to inform the public with the aim to protect the government’s stance and prestige,” the document says.
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Migrant labor deals with Malaysia have right group concerned
under an agreement with Malaysia, Cambodian migrant workers will be allowed to hold onto their passport and copies of their contract but will be banned from any political activities, according to a draft version of the document obtained by the post.
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Garment Sector Wage Hike a Boon for landlord
The Labor Ministry on Tuesday appealed to landlords whose tenants work in garment factories to refrain from raising rental prices in response to the sector’s newly announced minimum wage, but it seems proprietors have already decided otherwise. Starting in January, the monthly minimum wage in the country’s garment sector will jump from $100 to $128 following a government decision last week.
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Khun Sear disputants jailed
A father and daughter who claim to have been victims of a string of abuses over the course of a long-running land dispute – including having snakes thrown into their house – were arrested yesterday. Ly Srea Kheng, 60, was arrested at his home in the capital’s Tuol Kork district yesterday morning. Later that day, in dramatic circumstances, his daughter Ly Seav Minh, 23, was detained at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, while her brother, Ly Bunheang, 18, fled from the building, evading police on foot through surrounding streets.
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UB Envoy, NGOs rebuke GOv’t over recent spate of arrest
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on Tuesday joined a group of local NGOs in criticizing a spate of recent arrests of activists, monks and opposition figures. Ten female land rights activists, three Buddhist monks and two opposition CNRP figures were all arrested last week. Of the 15, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has already convicted 11 of them in two snap trials, sentencing them each to a year in jail.
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Father, Daughter of family in land dispute arrested, jailed
A man whose family has been locked in a land dispute with real-estate magnate Khun Sear and his eponymous import-export firm was on Tuesday arrested at his Phnom Penh home, charged with violating the country’s Land Law and jailed, according to the family’s lawyer. When his daughter came to visit him during his questioning at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, she too was arrested, charged with the same crime as her father—using violence against a property owner—and placed in pretrial detention, said lawyer Han Meng Hoeung.
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Solidarity at top of list in international union meeting
Cambodian labor union leaders this week are taking cues from international advocates and unions from other countries in ways they can strengthen the labor movement in the Kingdom and around the world.
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Justice Ministry says hands tied in CNRP arrests
Despite opposition party hopes to the contrary, the Ministry of Justice yesterday rejected the idea that it could intervene in the court system to release Meach Sovannara, a Cambodia National Rescue Party official jailed last week. According to ministry spokesman Kem Santepheap, a letter from CNRP president Sam Rainsy asking Interior Minister Sar Kheng to help release Sovannara had been forwarded on to the Ministry of Justice. But it sent the letter back to the Interior Ministry yesterday, simply saying that it couldn’t do anything because the courts were independent, he said.
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B Keila tycoon faces setback
Businesswoman Suy Sophan who is usually subjected to angry demands for her to finish building flats she owes B Keila evictees has this time been ordered to cease building on a site elsewhere in the capital.
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Preah Vihear villagers staying at pagoda march to assembly
Villagers from Preah Vihear province who for the past two months have been staying at Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda Monday marched to the National Assembly to deliver a petition demanding the return of their farmland. About 70 villagers set off from the pagoda in Meanchey district at about 6:30 a.m. to get a jump on the police that blocked their previous attempts to march to the city center last week, said Thach Ha Sam Ang, the pagoda’s deputy chief monk.
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Doubts over reality of gender report’s ‘gain’
A report released by the Ministry of Women’s affair last week shows improvement in gender equality, but some advocates say it veils the actual, bleaker picture for the kingdom’s women.
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