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Gas Company Employee Strike Suspended for Wage Study
After a week of strikes, employees at Caltex gas stations agreed to go back to work Friday after being promised a $20 one-time bonus while the company studies its wage structure, a union representative said Friday.
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Snoul Villagers Seek Help From Embassies in Land Dispute
More than 200 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district marched through Phnom Penh on Friday and submitted petitions to seven foreign embassies and the European Union, seeking intervention in a long-running land dispute with a Vietnamese company.
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Rainsy attack ‘shocks’ tycoon
Prominent businessman and Cambodian People’s Party Senator Ly Yong Phat yesterday questioned what he had done to warrant to verbal attack from opposition party leader Sam Rainsy, who said on Wednesday that the tycoon had grabbed land from people in Koh Kong province and should “be careful”.
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UN reports 60,000 at risk of HIV
While Cambodia has taken significant steps to combat HIV/AIDS, more than 60,000 people are still at risk of contracting the virus, according to UNAIDS.
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Court Temporarily Halts Lease Transfer for Victory Beach
Russian businessmen Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky are locked in a legal dispute over Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach following Mr. Polonsky’s release from prison last month, according to copies of court documents obtained yesterday.
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Aus called out on railway
Rights groups are calling out the Australian government for being “curiously absent” from discussion about further compensation for thousands of families affected by a railway rehabilitation project that it cofounded with the Asian Development bank.
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Workers fired after strike
Two factories in the Manhattan Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town have fired more than 40 workers since thousands-strong strikes ended early this month, unions say.
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IFC Official to Start Mediation Between Families, Rubber Firm
The ombudsman of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has finished reviewing complaint Cambodian families have filed against the organization over its financing of several controversial rubber plantations and will now mediate efforts to help the two sides settle their dispute.
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N Korean waitress missing
A North Korean National working at Siem Reap restaurant has been missing since Tuesday, police said yesterday, though foul play isn’t suspected, and south Korean and Cambodian officials say that they have received no word of a North Korean wishing to defect.
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Governor says cop pulled gun on him
A district governor in Mondulkiri province filed a lawsuit yesterday against a National Military Police officer for allegedly pulling a gun on him during an operation to crack down on illegal logging.
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Military Police Officer Puts Gun to Head of District Governor
A military police officer pulled a gun and pointed it at the head of governor yesterday morning when authorities stopped his car at checkpoint in Mondolkiri province set up to intercept illegally smuggled wood, officials said.
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NGOs Ask National Assembly To Re-Examine Judicial Laws
Civil society organizations yesterday called on the National Assembly to invest more time in revising three controversial laws governing the judiciary, which the groups say fail to ensure greater independence in the country’s ailing court system.
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Battambang Official Files Campaign Complaint Against CNRP
A deputy commune chief in Battambang City filed a complaint yesterday with the provincial election committee (PEC, accusing the CNRP of failing to inform him when they publicly screened a political video in his commune on May 6 and 7.
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Wing star victim’s kin not paid out
When an overloaded and illegally built storage level at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province collapsed last May 16, officials went into damage control, promising to compensate victims using a relatively new state fund.
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Chinese flowing in ; About 700 flee Vietnam unrest
Hundreds of Chinese nationals have fled to Cambodia since Tuesday following a series of deadly riots in Vietnam targeting businesses associated with China, police have said.
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Kandal Court May Release Men Charged With Odong Relic Theft
The Kandal Provincial Court will question five prisoners next month over the theft of $2,500-year-old relics of the Buddha from the top of Odong mountain if they were actually involved, a court official said yesterday.
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Bans Violate Election Law Right to Campaign, Comfrel Says
Bans issued by the municipality and Interior Ministry on assemblies in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park are not only unconstitutional, but also in violation of the Election Law, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said in a report released yesterday.
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American audience; Strikers take Caltex fight to embassy
Workers striking at Caltex petrol stations put their grievances on the record with the US Embassy yesterday, submitting a petition asking for intervention in their case.
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P Vihear Villagers Summoned Over Destruction of Sugarcane
Three Kuoy minority representatives and an NGO staffer have been summoned by Preah Vihear Provincial Court over the destruction of sugarcane on a Chinese company’s plantation last month.
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Border posts back in spotlight
Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy was back in familiar territory – both politically and physically – this week as he vowed to seek legal means to uproot new posts along the border with Vietnam.
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