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For Union Leader on Run, Militant Attitude Prevails
For Seang Rithy, president of the small Cambodia Solidarity Union Federation, avoiding arrest is a simple task.
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Turkish Man Arrested for Buying Children’s Virginity
A 51-year-old Turkish man was arrested on Wednesday by anti-human trafficking police in Phnom Penh for allegedly buying the virginity of two 14-year-old girls, police said.
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Angkor Beer workers strike
Some 200 workers at the Angkor Beer brewery in Sihanoukville yesterday went on strike for higher wage and an end to commission withholding on large sales.
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Gov’t Played Politics With Land in 2013: Adhoc
The number of new land disputes recorded by rights group Adhoc nearly doubled last year, while total disputes are on the rise again after a brief lull around the time of July’s election, according to the rights group’s latest figures.
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Samphan team takes issue with trial’s scope
The defense team for Khieu Samphan has appealed the Khmer Rouge tribunal trial chamber’s decision to limit the scope of the second phase of Case 002, saying the move was flawed in its reasoning and violated the rights of its client.
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Kuoy file suit over ‘land grab’
Ethnic Kuoy villagers in Preah Vihear’s Tbeng Meanchey district have filed a lawsuit against Chinese companies operating there, demanding up to $600,000 in compensation for the alleged destruction of their ancestral lands.
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In Siem Reap, CNRP Supporters Are Joyous, Leaders Vitriolic
CNRP supporters sang and danced on the streets of Siem Reap City yesterday as party leaders continued to lambaste Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling CPP in the opposition party’s council election campaign.
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Baby’s fight for life ends Double murder charges expected
After undergoing several surgeries to save her life, Dana Beerdsen, the 19-month-old daughter of murdered Dutch United Nations worker Daphna Beerdsen, succumbed to brain injuries and died in a Bangkok hospital late on Wednesday.
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Lead-up to poll saw SLCs spike
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 2012 ban on the allocation of economic land concessions was supposed to halt the unpopular practice of turning over large swaths of property to developers. And going by the numbers last year, it worked.
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Party of Ideas Resigned to Fate in Council Vote
The League for Democracy Party (LDP) has waited four years to raise its political agenda from the commune to the district level.
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Court Finds Four Guilty in Two Human Trafficking Cases
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted and sentenced four people to prison terms in two separate human trafficking cases.
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Six Unionists Charged With Incitement After Roadblock
The Kompong Speu Provincial Court on Tuesday charged six union representatives with incitement over a protest near the Wing Star Shoes factory earlier that day, in a move unions say was unjustified and meant to intimidate.
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Police presence has strikers on edge
A day after police in Kampong Speu province arrested six striking workers; the unexpected presence of about 100 military police officers at a garment factory in Takeo province had some union activists fearing the worst.
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Gov’t Failing to Implement Fake Milk Law
Baby formula manufacturers are flouting a sub-decree that bans promotions of formula in store and health-care facilities, the Would Organization, Unicef and three NGOs said in a statement yesterday.
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Rubber projects on hold
Controversial Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has suspended part of its operations in Ratanakkiri province amid an investigation by the World Bank’s investment arm into claims of land grabbing, a company memorandum reveals.
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Man Charged Over Alleged $1M Note Scam
A man was charged with fraud by Phnom Penh Municipal Court Monday after claiming to have a $1 million note, which he promised to exchange with another man before robbing him of thousands of dollars’ worth of items in a transaction on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island, according to a judge.
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For communities, threats routine
Two disputes involving a land developer with ties to the highest ranks of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have once again exposed the lack of justice faced by impoverished communities in the capital, affected residents and rights groups have said.
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Police seek colleague over attack
Police are searching for one of their colleagues who is suspected of stabbing his girlfriend more than a dozen times in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samroang town on Monday, officials revealed yesterday.
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Lawyer Who Paid for Sex With Boy Avoids Jail
The Siem Reap Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced Cambodian lawyer Mao Tan Eam to two-and-a-haft years in prison for purchasing child prostitution, but he will not spend a single day in jail after the court suspended the entire custodial sentence, an official said.
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Helmet Use Means Huge Savings, Study Finds
The government could save nearly $100 million between now and 2020 if it passed the draft traffic law and enforces mandatory helmet usage as soon as possible, a road safety group said yesterday.
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