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Strike may be shifted to post-holiday date
A stay-at-home garment strike scheduled for tomorrow is in doubt after a number of workers and unionists urged that it be postponed until after the Khmer New Year, a union leader said yesterday.
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Five Dies After Truck Careers Into River
Five people were killed and seven others injured in traffic accident in Battambang province’s Mong Russei district on Thursday, traffic police said yesterday.
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CPP-Friendly Publisher to Launch English Paper
TMoha, the Malaysian national who edited The Cambodia Times and The Vision newspapers in the 1990s before being arrested for attempting to export the casino executive on behalf of an alleged insurgent group, is planning to launch a new English-language newspaper.
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Municipal Court Calls 10 Witnesses in Racist Mob Killing Case
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned 10 witnesses, including several police officials and one reporter, as it begins investigating the brutal murder of Nguyen Vann Chean, an ethnic Vietnamese man who was beaten to death by an energy mob in Meanchey district last month.
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Protest Ban Firmly in Place on Women’s Day
Freedom Park was placed under lockdown and a march by land rights activists was blocked Saturday morning as Phnom Penh’s security officials were out in force to ensure that peaceful rallies on International Women’s day could not go as planned.
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Villagers Detain Suspected Illegal Loggers
A team of ethnic minority Banong villagers in Mondolkiri province detained a group of Vietnamese men on Saturday, who they suspect illegal logging inside their community forest, and have handed them over to local police.
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GMAC Applauds Government Decision to Screen Union Leaders
The garment manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) issued a statement on Friday applauding the Ministry of Labor’s decision to start requiring union leaders to prove that they have a clean criminal record before registering new branches.
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Dutch Man Charged With Child Sex Abuse Released
The Siem Reap provincial Court last week acquitted Dutch national Sebastien Reuyl, who was arrested in December and charged with committing indecent acts against two young boys aged 6 and 9.
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Remove License Plates, Cheam Yeap Warms CNRP
Cheam Yeap a senior lawmaker from the ruling CPP, said yesterday that he has formally requested Minister of Interior to take action against opposition lawmakers-elect who continue to use what he described as “invalid” National Assembly license plates, which were issued during the last electoral term 2008 to 2013.
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‘Killing Fields’ Producer Lands CPP Anti-Corruption Efforts
David Puttnam, who produced the 1984 film “The Killing Fields” and now serves as the U.K.’s trade envoy to Cambodia, praised the government yesterday for its commitment to ending corruption and called on the media to develop a more constructive role as the government seeks to develop the country.
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Residents Protest, Call Company to Pave Road
At least 200 disgruntled residents from three villages in Siem Reap’s Prasat Bakorng district blocked a 3-km stretch of unsurfaced road on Friday demanding that a private tour operator, which uses the route to ferry tourists to Kompong Pluk floating village, pave the thoroughfare to stop the clouds of dust its buses drag up around their homes, a village representative said.
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Families in Boeng Kak Asked to Give Up Land for Titles
Families still waiting for promised land title in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood said yesterday that the municipal government is offering to give them their long-awaited tensure rights only if they agree to give up part of their land.
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University Ban Women’s Day Event, Says It’s Too Political
Phnom Penh’s Panha Chiet University has informed the local NGO Silaka that it cannot hold a meeting on women’s right planned for today because the event might deal with political issues.
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Security Forces Hold Drills Ahead of Saturday’s Union Forum
Some 2,000 police officers in a full riot gear carried out demonstration-suppression drill at Olympic Stadium yesterday, ahead of a scheduled forum hosted by labor union at Phnom Penh’s freedom park on Saturday.
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US Navy Challenged ‘Excessive’ Cambodia Maritime Claims
The U.S. military conducted a freedom of navigation operation that challenged claims made by Cambodia in two maritime areas between October 1, 2012, and September 30, 2013, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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City Hall Wants World Bank, NGOs to Compensate Evicted Families
Representatives of some of the 3,000 families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in recent years said yesterday that municipal government officials, who were ultimately responsible for the mass evictions, told them they would be inviting the World Bank and NGOs to help compensate them.
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NGOs Say Selling Off Old Land Concessions Is Premature
The government’s announcement on Wednesday that companies looking to start rubber plantations could skirt a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) by taking over existing, dormant ones continue to make a good impression on prospective investors in town yesterday.
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Socheatvong Says Bus Operator Only Firm Requiring No Subsidy
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong on Wednesday strongly denied that City Hall acted without transparency in procuring a public bus service operator and said there was no bidding process for the contract because only one company was prepared to shoulder the entire cost of the project.
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Thmey Thmey to Hit Airwaves, Be Published in Japanese, French
Thmey Thmey online news and Women’s Radio FM 102 yesterday announced a partnership that will see journalists from both outlets join forces to create evening news bulletins to be broadcast daily starting tomorrow.
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Agriculture Ministry Establishes 2 H5N1 ‘Contamination Zones’
The Ministry of Agriculture has created designated bird flu contamination zones in Phnom Penh and Kandal province following the deaths of hundreds of birds due to the H5N1 virus, officials said yesterday.
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