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Journalists allege Cover-up in Associate’s Murder
A consortium of journalists yesterday sent a report to the governor of Kompong Chhang province claiming that a man arrested last week for murdering one of their associates was framed in an attempt to cover up an illegal fishing syndicate with close connection to police.Yang Phealang, 36, who recharged batteries for a living, was arrested on October 14 for the murder of Suon Chan, 44, a journalist who reported primarily on illegal fishing. Suon Chan was murdered on the evening of January 31 by a group of six men—allegedly including Mr. Phealang—who beat him with bamboo poles as he walked to buy cigarettes at a shop near his home in Cholkiri district’s Peam Chhkork commune. The five other suspects remain at large.
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More than 3,000 luxury logs found in wildlife sanctuary
Police and environment officers in Mondolkiri province on Sunday confiscated more than 3,000 length of luxury-grade timber found inside a wildlife sanctuary but have yet to determine if it belongs to Chinese company with a land concession in the area.Provincial police and officers from Mondolkiri’s environment department descended on the cache of Thnong logs in Pech Chreada district’s Pou Chrei commune after receiving information from locals, according to district Governor Nguon Saran.
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Worker injured after factory floor collapse
At least eight workers sustained minor injuries yesterday morning after the floor of a clothing factory in Takeo province collapsed, once again raising concerns about a lack of oversight of building standards in the crucial garment sector.At the Chinese-owned Nishiku Enterprise factory—which labor monitors say produces clothes for Swedish clothing giant H&M—sewing machines and debris from the ceiling, which was pulled down by the collapsed floor, littered the bottom of a 50-meter-long and 3-meter-deep slab that dropped into a water basin below the factory floor.
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Shock in Sihanoukville at claims of sex abuse
The arrest of the French director of a Shilanoukville NGO for child abuse has left the city’s small French community dumbfounded, in large part because of the man’s prominent role in setting up the first formal French school in town.Philippe Broaly, a former judge from Lyon, was arrested last week and accused of sexually abusing seven boys aged between 12 and 19. Broaly is the president of Enfants du Cambodge, an NGO which partners Cambodian children with donors in France.
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Advisory group begins minimum wage talks
A new group that will advise the committee that advises the government on the minimum wage in the country’s garment sector began talking numbers yesterday following a meeting Monday that laid out a code of conduct for their negotiation. The closed-door talks Tuesday included nine representatives each from the unions, factories and government, and are aimed at reaching an agreement on a new wage raise before it goes to a vote by the Labor Advisory Committee next month.
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Factory Oks only part of part advance
About 600 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory will return to work today after walking out with the demand of receiving their salaries before next month’s Water Festival.Ginwin Industry (Cambodia) Co yesterday agreed to pay workers a portion of their wages ahead of the festival, said Toun Saren of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW). “Workers want a salary advance this month because the Water Festival will begin a day before they are typically paid,” Saren said.
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Company keeps farming on revoked plantation
One of 11 firms that had their economic land concession revoked by the Ministry of Environment on Friday has continued to work its former land in Banteay Meanchey province, according to local residents. The ministry canceled the concessions claiming the owners had broken their contracts with the government by having failed to develop their properties as promised. But locals say that Leang Bou Construction was planting cassava on its 1,783-hectare concession in Thma Puok district before the government revoked it and has continued to do so.
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Factory collapse injures four
Four employees suffered back and leg injuries after part of the floor collapsed at a Takeo province garment factory yesterday morning. Authorities blamed the incident – the latest to raise questions about building safety in Cambodia’s biggest export industry – on substandard construction. Some 800 workers fled from Building B of the Nishiku Enterprise factory at about 9:30am after part of the ground floor near the entrance caved in, pinning several workers under their sewing machines and causing minor injuries, witnesses said.
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Gov’t official vow to give Nauru refugees honest living assessment
As a group of Cambodian officials reportedly departed for Australia and asylum seeker detention centers on the Pacific island of Nauru last night, the Interior Ministry said that refugees would be given a brutally realistic summation of contemporary Cambodia before they choose to come here.
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ADB to Help Find Answers for Railway Families
The Asian Development Bank yesterday promised to help pry answer out of the government for residents of Phnom Penh who fear losing all or some of their land to a bank-funded project to rehabilitate the community’s railway network. ADB country director Eric Sidgwick made the pledge outside the bank’s country office, where about 200 representatives of those families had gathered to protest. Some 1,000 families whose homes abutted dilapidated sections of track in several provinces have already been evicted to make way for the project. The families who gathered at the ADB office Monday have not lost their homes, but are anxious because the government has not said how much land on either side of the track future upgrades will require.
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Parties yet to agree on part of NEC draft law
Hopes that the ruling and opposition parties would finally reach full accord on a new National Election Committee draft law were dashed yesterday as talks foundered on the qualifications the secretary-general of the new institution must possess.After a meeting that lasted more than two hours, Cambodian People’s Party working group chief Bin Chhin and his Cambodia National Rescue Party counterpart Kuoy Bunroeun said the parties had reached “90 per cent” agreement. “But regarding the secretary-general and deputy secretaries-general [of the NEC], we have disagreed on the qualifications [they should have],” Chhin said.
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Another protest turns bloody
Land protests from Preah Vihear province who came to Phnom Penh seeking a resolution to their disputes were brutally beaten by security forces yesterday as they attempted to deliver petitions to Prime Minister Hun Sen. About 100 people representing 333 families in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot commune and Tbeng Meanchey district’s Palhal commune marched yesterday morning to the Chinese, Russian and Australian embassies before attempting to deliver a petition to Hun Sen’s cabinet.
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Labour talks ‘show promise’
The first of 10 planned negotiation sessions between union manufacturer and government officials on the minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector yesterday showed promise, several who attended the meeting said. After the meeting of the working group, which includes nine members from each stakeholder group, participants were introduced to each other and given data to consider. “From my point of view, I think it’s good that the government has brought both parties to the table to discuss,” said Kong Athit, vice president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union.
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Gov’t set ground rules for ongoing wage talks
The Labor Ministry laid out the ground rules for unions and factories yesterday at the first meeting of a new working group charged with getting the two sides to agree on a new minimum wage for garment workers, including a condition that they address each other politely. The ministry wants the unions and factories to agree on a recommended raise to the current monthly minimum wage of $100 in order to avoid the crippling strikes some of the unions staged after failing to win the $160 they were demanding in December. Aiming to get the more militant unions in on the talks, the ministry announced the creation of a new working group last week made up of nine representatives each from the unions, factories and government.
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CNRP Begins registration for first opposition TV station
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday that a group of people close to the opposition party has applied to register a firm with the government that will operate the television license promised to the CNRP by Prime Minister Hun Sen during the political deadlock. Mr. Hun Sen on June 10 pledged that the CNRP, whose 55 lawmakers were boycotting the National Assembly at the time, would be allowed a TV station if CNRP President Sam Rainsy registered a private company and then applied for a license.
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Preah Vihear Protests Clash with Security guards in Capital
Eighteen land rights protestors from Preah Vihear province were injured during a Clash with district security guards in Phnom Penh yesterday after they attempted to deliver a petition at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house, a rights group said.
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Somaly Mam Foundation closes down
Months after announcing the resignation of its founder and promising to start a afresh to continue its vital work protecting vulnerable girls in Cambodia, the U.S-based Somaly Mam Foundation announced Saturday that is has ceased operations, telling supporters to turn to other organizations to help the fight against sex trafficking and slavery.
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With SMF’s closure, donor queries grow
The disgraced Somaly Mam Foundation announced early on Saturday morning that it had closed its door once and for all, leaving long-term supporters with a brief message of gratitude and goodbye.
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Free Trade Union proposes $130 Garment worker minimum wage
One of the country’s largest unions yesterday came out in favor of a new minimum wage for garment workers far lower than what many of its counterparts have been agitating for over the past several months, bolstering prospects for a compromise with factories.
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Cybercrime law’s status uncertain
A ministry of Commerce official said in a speech last week that the controversial draft cybercrime laws was almost ready to appear before the National Assembly, though another government official dismissed yesterday.;
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