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Residents Near Lakes Put Up Fight
Members of Phnom Penh’s lake communities who stand to have their lives uprooted by development project filed complaints yesterday.
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Police Block Alleged Plan to Sell Brides
An alleged human trafficker was charged and another escaped yesterday after a roadside stop revealed they were transporting two women to Phnom Penh so they could fly to Australia for marriage.
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Man Attacks Wife, Mother-In-Law, Then Kills self
A man in Siem Reap province allegedly attacked his wife and mother-in-law with a machete on Monday before committing suicide by slitting his throat, police said.
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Workers at Factory Seek Full Salaries
Police yesterday morning blocked more than 1,000 garment workers as they tried to march from their Por Senchey district factory to the Ministry of Labor to place for intervention.
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Man Arrested Trying to Send Women to Australia for Marriage
Police in Kandal province on Monday arrested a man transporting two women on their way to marry unidentified men in Australia and are now searching for the alleged broker, who remains at large.
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Garment Workers Strike After Factory Faintings, Secure Demands
Staff at a garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province went on strike yesterday to demand guarantees of pay for 36 colleagues who fainted on Monday, a union official said.
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Factory Faintings Back on Rise
More than 600 workers have fainted on factory floors so far this year, compared with about 800 such incidents over the whole of 2013, a Labor Ministry official said yesterday.
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After Jail, Pov Gains Following
Before he was arrested in January, Vorn Pov and the union he created were not widely known outside of activist circles.
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Out of Jail, Garment Worker sees Uncertain Future
When Pang Vanny walks around his rented room just off of Veng Sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark.
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Workers’ March Blocked in Ocean Factory Dispute
About 800 striking workers from the Ocean Garment Factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district were prevented from protesting outside the Labor Ministry yesterday, with later discussion between workers and factory owners yielding no results, according to union representatives.
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Allegations of Death Threats After Illegal Logging Reports
A journalist has filed a complaint with the Pursat provincial court alleging that a soldier threatened to kill him on Sunday after he wrote a series of damning articles linking the soldier to illegal rosewood trafficking, court officials confirmed yesterday.
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Minorities Tell of Suffering Under Khmer Rouge
While there can be no doubt of the depth of the horrors inflicted upon Cambodia’s population between 1975 and 1979, sexualized crime committed specifically against the country’s ethnic minority communities have largely been shrouded in silence.
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Farmers Return to Kratie After Land Concession
The 204 farmers evicted from their land to make way for a Vietnamese rubber company returned to Kratie province’s Snuol district yesterday after accepting a social land concession in the same district they were evicted from.
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B’bang Farmers Desperate for Local River Water
With barely a drop of rain falling on their parched fields, Battambang farmers are pleading with a construction company to stop blockading the local river so their recently planted crops don’t dry out.
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Maids Still Missing as Deal With Malaysia Nears
When Ros Srey Pich was 19, she signed a contract with a recruitment agency that would send her to work as a maid in Malaysia.
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Villagers Won’t Swap Land for Apartment
Villagers who claim a development project in Russey Keo district has already taken a bite out of their land said yesterday that they fear the plan will swallow the rest of their property, as they filed petitions and met with local authorities.
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KR Sexual Violence on Minorities Spotlighted
The release of two reports in Phnom Penh today give rare voice to ethnic minority and marginalized ethnic-Vietnamese survivors of sexual violence perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge.
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Villagers Block Machines in Long-Running Land Dispute
About 60 villagers in Kompong Chhnang province’s Kompong Tralach district blocked two heavy tractors sent to clear a boundary yesterday on disputed land they maintain was illegally grabbed by a company owned by the wife of Mines Minister Suy Sem.
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Locals Block Bulldozers, Fence
Fifty-seven families embroiled in a decadelong land row with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem faced off with the firm’s security guards yesterday in Kampong Chhnang’s Kampong Tralach district.
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Kampuchea Krom Forum Banned by City
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday banned Wat Samakki Rainsy from hosting a public forum on Wednesday to make the 65th anniversary of the official granting of Kampuchea Krom to the State of Vietnam.
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