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Rally After Officials Call Monk for Questioning
More than 100 monks turned out to protest at Sansam Kosal pagoda in Meanchey district yesterday after a Khmer Krom monk who took part in a recent nationalist protests outside the Vietnamese Embassy was call to a meeting with district religious authorities.
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K Chhnang Workers Rally at Hun Sen’s Home
Several dozen representatives of a Kompong Chhnang province garment factory involved in a labor dispute rallied outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh home yesterday, while about 1,000 of their colleagues marched it the province.
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Embassy Up in Arms Over B Kak Egging
The Singapore Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday filed a police complaint against Boeng Kak lake protesters after eggs were thrown at the embassy during a demonstration on Wednesday.
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Rights Group Wants Sit-Downs With Government
Local rights group Adhoc yesterday called on Prime Minister Hun Sen and other government officials to hold regular meetings with NGOs in order to better understand the human rights situation in the country.
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Nearly 200 Migrant Workers Duped out of $260 Each by Agency
A group of 50 migrant workers yesterday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand.
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‘Villager Chained’ by Soldiers
A villager in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district was allegedly detained on Monday and chained up for a day by a nearly military unit, the rights group Adhoc said.
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Lawmakers Told to Act on Gender Disparity
Following a tumble in the number of women elected as members of the National Assembly in last year’s national election, a group of civil society organizations yesterday called on the newly formed parliament to take action to ensure that women have due representation in future ballots.
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Sorya Staff Threaten Counter protest at Union
The tit-for-tat- between 17 sacked bus drivers and employees of Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation continued for a third day yesterday, despite the company’s warning that it faced bankruptcy as a result of the drivers’ months-long campaign to be rehired.
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Samphan’s Defense Calls For Removal Of Judges
The defense team for Khieu Samphan, who was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month for crimes against humanity, wants the judges behind the guilty verdict to be disqualified if the Khmer Rouge tribunal moves ahead with the next phase of the trial.
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Work Permits Now Required For Foreigners
The Labor Ministry has begun to enforce a long-neglected law that requires foreigners employed in Cambodia to have work permits, according to ministry officials.
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We’re Not Perfect: US Envoy
The United States has “never claimed to be perfect” in terms of upholding human rights and Prime Minister Hun Sen has every right to offer criticisms of the country, one of the superpower’s top Asia diplomats said yesterday.
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Temple Tumult APSARA Urged to Pay More for lost Fields
Nearly 60 families in Siem Reap province are demanding more compensation from the body that manages Angkor Wat for a canal it is constructing through their rice fields.
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Boeng Kak Protesters Egg Embassy, Ex-Governor’s Photo
The ever-innovative activists of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood added a little yolk to their latest protest against the community’s forced eviction yesterday morning, egging both the Singaporean Embassy and photographs of former city Governor Kep Chuktema.
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K Chhnang Workers to Petition Hun Sen at Home
About 500 staff of the Chinese-owned Jiun Ye Garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province plan to rally outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house today after Labor Ministry-brokered negotiations with management failed to end their pay dispute.
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Gender Reform ‘Legal Action Needed’ for Even Politics
Civil society umbrella group the Committee to Promote Women in politics yesterday called on political parties to use upcoming amendments to the constitution and election laws as an opportunity to increase women’s political participation.
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We Were Scammed: Workers
Pressure is building against a recruitment firm in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, as nearly 100 workers from different provinces travelled to the company’s office yesterday to demand the recruiter pay back fees for jobs in Thailand that never materialized.
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Protesters Leave After Promises
More than 300 community representatives embroiled in land disputes in Battambong and Banteay Meanchey provinces have left Phnom Penh after receiving written pledges from government officials that the authorities will establish a commission to seek redress.
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Crowds Again Seek PM’s Help
A week after Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly chided provincial officials for allegedly failing to notify him about land disputes, hundreds of villagers converged on the capital yesterday demanding their conflicts be resolved.
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KDC Payoff Deemed Invalid, Villager Says
After accepting compensation and agreeing to stop protesting against the politically connected KDC International company, Lorpeang village representative Reach Seyma yesterday said his first cheque from the company was rejected when he tried to cash it.
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Kratie Land Dispute Unsolved After Latest Talk
Representatives of villagers in Kratie province locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm said discussions with land management and provincial officials at the Snuol district hall ended yesterday without a resolution.
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