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ILO Names Factories With Poor Conditions
Garment factories that fail to meet basic standard for working conditions are once again being publicly named by the International Labor Organization (ILO) following the launch yesterday of the Transparency Database by the ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC).
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Lon Nol –Era Bomb on Construction Site
The Cambodia Mine Action Center yesterday removed an unexploded 250-pound bomb, likely dropped by the U.S. Air Force in support of the military government of Lon Nol in the 1970s, from a construction site in Kandal province, police said.
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Arson Attempt at Home of Families in Bitter Land Dispute
An attacker yesterday set fire to building occupied by three families in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district who are at the center of a long-running land dispute with a private company, according to a joint statement by five local rights groups.
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Ranariddh Plays to old politics with New Party
Prince Norodom Ranariddh opened the latest chapter in his topsy-turvy political career yesterday with the official launch of the community of Royalist people party (CRPP), warning that the upsurge in support for the opposition CNRP threatened the monarchy.
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Mondolkiri Authorities Torch ‘Illegal’ Dwellings
Police and military police on Saturday torched 48 dwellings in Mondolkiri province’s Keo Seima district, accusing families living there of illegally settling in a protected area and clearing swathes of forested land for farming , officials and villagers said.
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Government defended Protest Ban in Talks with European Union
Cambodia blamed its suspension of the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly on an unruly political opposition during bilateral talks with the European Union in Brussels last week, and claimed that the restrictions are temporary, Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Ouch Borith said on his return to Phnom Penh on Saturday.
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Ringleader Sought After Drug Arrest in Stung Treng
A man was arrested with nearly 14,000 methamphetamine pills and 3 grams of crystal methamphetamine in Stung Treng City yesterday, military police said.
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Open Letter to Thai Prime Minister Yinsluck Shina;atra calling for an investieatiolr into and an end to tbe continual arbitrarv executions of Cambodian illegal loggers
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights ("CCHR") expresses its deep concern regarding the continued arbitrary executions of Cambodian civilians and calls on your government to immediately put an end to these killings and to promptly, independently and publicly investigate the reported human rights violations.
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Funding Boost for Cambodia’s Hero Mine-Detecting rats NGO
The Belgian demining NGO APOPO, which is pioneering the use of mine-detecting rats in the former battlefields of Cambodia, has received funding from the German government to expand its mine-clearance work in the country.
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Roads Blocked to stop engineers, Proposed Dam
Dozens of ethnic Chong villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng valley continued blocking a road yesterday of the third day to protest the impending construction of a hydropower dam that will lead to large scale evictions, authorities and rights workers said.
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Man arrested for Arson Over Land Dispute
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court on Saturday charged an ethnic Kreung man with destruction of private property for allegedly setting fire to a wood pile belonging to a businessman whom locals accuse of buying their land but failing to pay them.
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Court probe of veng sreng street slaughter ends
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has finished an investigation into the shooting deaths of five protesting garment factory workers and the wounding of more than 40 others, during a military police operation against stone-throwing strikers on January 3, Judge Phou Povsun said yesterday.
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Union Representatives File Complaint Against Leaders over pilfering
Two union organizers have filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court claiming that the senior leaders of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel workers Democratic Union (CCAWDU) have embezzled money that was meant to be paid to workers in compensation following a dispute with factory owners.
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Koh Kong Villagers Block Road in Effort to Stop Chinese Dam
About 100 families in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley blocked a road Friday leading to the land a Chinese company has rented to store construction material and heavy machinery for the proposed Stung Chhay Areng dam, which would require the eviction of hundred families.
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CPP, CNRP Spar Over Monday’s Electoral Reform Meeting
Both the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP have written to each other with widely differing opinions as to how a joint workshop on electoral reform, which is slated for Monday, should proceed.
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EU Concerned, But No Treats to Cut Cambodia Aid , Trade
The European Union has called on Cambodia to release 21 jailed activists and protesters and told the government during high level talk held here this week that a failure to reform the judiciary and electoral process could have severe consequences for the ruling party by the time of the 2018 national election.
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Fashion Labels Concerned By New Trade Union Law
A group of 30 international garment brands on Friday wrote to Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon to express their concern over the government’s draft union law, which could allow for the arbitrary suspension or disbanding of unions.
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Interior Ministry Says Sokha Trying to Topple Gov’t
The Minister of Interior on Friday accused CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha of trying to topple Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government, posting on its website excerpts of speeches the opposition leader has given abroad as supposed evidence of his plot.
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Khaou Family Magnate Denies Pressure From Commerce Minister
Construction magnate Khaou Phallaboth has written a public letter denying a commerce Minister Sun Chanthol, his brother-in-law, pressure him into writing a recent letter apologizing for accusations he leveled against the minister, specifically that Mr. Chanthol fabricated an electorate crime in order to take a greater share of the immense Khaou family fortune.
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Guideline Finalized for Child Workers in Fisheries Sector
The government on Friday finalized guidelines aimed at reducing the number of children who work in the fisheries sector and do not attend school, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the NGO World Vision said on a statement.
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