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Documents Said to Back Land Claims
Evictees from the embattled Borei Keila community yesterday presented documents they said supported their claims for housing at the site.
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Wrangling Over Wage May Spur New Unrest
Unions representing garment workers have pledged to reignite protests if the minimum wage for the industry is raise to only $115 next year, a sum they say was offered by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia during a meeting on Friday.
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UN Representative Hears Minorities’ Complaints
The U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia visited ethnic Bunong villagers in Mondolkiri province this week, days after local authorities prevented hundreds of them from marching to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People.
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‘Too Early’ to Cheer Reopening
Protesters in Phnom Penh yesterday continued to enjoy liberties rediscovered since political reconciliation between the ruling and opposition parties saw the barricades around Freedom Park – which had been the epicenter of opposition-led demonstrations – taken down last week.
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Fresh Arrests For Embattled KDC Villagers
Three men embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem were arrested yesterday while marching with about 50 fellow villagers from Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang village to Phnom Penh.
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Khmer Krom Test the Waters for Demonstration
More than 1,000 ethnic Khmer Krom monks and nationalist protesters yesterday tested City Hall’s tolerance for public assembly and demonstration, gathering in Freedom Park for the first time since it was reopened last week and proceeding to march through the city to demand an apology from the Vietnamese Embassy.
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Sorya Drivers Resume Protest, Demand Jobs Back
Bus drivers fired from the Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation company earlier this year waged a fresh protest outside the bus station in Phnom Penh yesterday, calling on passengers to boycott the service until they are rehired or given proper compensation.
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Rubber Firm to Stop Marking Disputed Land
A Vietnamese rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri province repeatedly accused of encroaching on the land of local residents agreed to stop demarcating more land yesterday after being confronted by a group of villagers who accused the firm of breaching a deal the two sides reached earlier this year.
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Krom Protests Back in Force
Hundreds of protesters descended on the Vietnamese Embassy yesterday to again ask for a public apology from a spokesman who said in June that the former Kampuchea Krom provinces had belonged to Vietnam long before being officially handed over by the French in 1949.
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Protesting Families Demand Answers From ADB
Phnom Penh families who face losing a part of their land to a railway habitation project being funded primarily by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) protested in front of the bank’s country headquarters yesterday over what they say has been a lack of transparency about their fate.
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Chroy Changva Families Accept OCIC Package
Thirty-one families in Chroy Changva district yesterday agreed to move off land that has been slated for a $3 billion development project in exchange for an apartment and a market stall nearby, officials said.
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Hundreds Protest Land Grab Feared After Posts Appear
Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land.
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Negotiations Near in Bus Row
Former bus drivers protested for eight hours outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district yesterday before agreeing to sit for negotiations tomorrow, according to a union representative.
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More Criticism for Refugee Deal
Critics of the Australian government’s plan to send refugees to Cambodia came out in force yesterday to condemn the proposed scheme, as officials in both countries remained silent on reports that a deal will be struck in the coming days.
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Unions, Factories Set Positions on Minimum Wage Raise
Unions and factories remained at odds over where to peg next year’s minimum wage for the garment sector after a meeting between representatives for both sides on Friday, though they agreed to resume the talks later in the month.
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Workers End Protest After Taking Sewing Machines
About 200 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory agreed to go back to work after reaching a deal with the factory yesterday, a day after they walked off the job – with some sewing machines in hand – because the owners could not pay them on time.
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Bus Drivers Want Ruling Respected
Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling reinstate most of them.
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Japanese Man Suspected of Trafficking Babies
A Japanese national has brought at least three infants into Cambodia from Thailand this year as part of a suspected baby trafficking operation using surrogate mothers, according to international media report.
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Villagers Clash With Chinese Company in Koh Kong
About 20 security guards from the Chinese-owned Sino Mexim agricultural company briefly clashed with about the same number of villagers on dispute farmland in Koh Kong province’s Botum Sakor district on Saturday, a local rights monitor said.
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K Krom to Resume Vietnam Embassy Campaign
About 1,000 ethnic Khmer Krom monks and Khmer nationals will hold the first formal protest this morning at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park since authorities re-opened it last week after seven months of a high-security lockdown.
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