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Education Ministry Issues Ban on Sale of ‘Free’ Textbooks
The Ministry of Education has warned the country’s book vendors to stop selling books meant to be given to school students free of charge. The announcement from the ministry, dated Friday, comes just one month after Education Minister Hang Chuon Naro said he was launching an investigation into claims government officials were pilfering textbooks from government stock and selling them on to vendors.
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Monks, Workers Hold Vigil for Slain Protesters
About 100 monks, activists and workers returned on Saturday evening to the Canadia Industrial Park, where garment workers clashed with military police on January 3, to pray for the five protesters who were shot dead in the violence and call for the release of 23 imprisoned activists and workers.
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KRT Prosecutors Suggest Scope for Next Phase
Prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal told the Trial Chamber on Friday that it was standing by its original proposal for what alleged crimes should be prosecuted it the second phase of the trial against defendants Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, including the notorious S-21 prison and Choeung Ek killing fields.
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CNRP Spokesman Says He Advocated for Higher Troop Wages
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovan yesterday moved to clarify his position on the armed forces after the Defense Ministry accused him of “looking down” on the government and the work of the army.
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UK’s Southeast Asia Foreign Minister to Talk to Trade, Politics
The U.K.’s visiting Foreign Office minister for southeast Asia, Hugo Swire, will meet Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leaders today to discuss both trade and the current political climate, which has been marked by stalemate and protests since July’s national election.
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EU Parliamentarian Probes Sugar Plantations in Cambodia
A member of the European Parliament is in Cambodia investigating agri-business firms accused of evicting hundreds of families while benefiting from a free-trade scheme with Europe worth millions of dollars, according to the NGO Equitable Cambodia.
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Teachers Told to Excel Corruption From Classrooms
Just weeks after the country’s only independent teachers’ association staged a strike for higher wage, Phnom Penh’s education chief told teachers this week that they must stop taking bribes to comply with the government’s promised reform agenda.
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CNRP Youth Activist to Protest Over Leaked Passport Details
An outspoken CNRP youth activist who claims that her passport application was leaked by immigration police said yesterday that she will lead protests in front of the Ministry of Interior and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s residence in Phnom Penh if authorities do not attempt to right the situation.
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Petition Rally for Prisoners’ Release Ends Peacefully
A week after they began their campaign, activists and rights groups handed out the last of their petitions to embassies across Phnom Penh yesterday, hoping to solicit the help of foreign governments in securing the release of 23 men arrested earlier this month at protests.
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Hun Sen Moves Ahead With ‘Reform’ Plan, Minus Opposition
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday laid out more details in his plan to introduce a series of political reforms after a narrow win for his long-ruling CPP at the polls in July, including creating a new national working group and establishing public forums to gather input in every province starting next month.
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Death Threat Made Against CNRP’s Social Media Activist
Thy Sovantha is accustomed to being threatened on Facebook. But the 19-year-old CNRP youth activist, who became something of an online celebrity through the popular opposition Facebook page “I Love Cambodia Hot News”, says the latest threat against her, in which a copy of her passport, application was published online along with warnings of an acid attack, is different.
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Defense Ministry Statement Claims CNRP Belittle Troops
The Ministry of Defense released a statement yesterday condemning an opposition party spokesman for allegedly “looking down on” Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government and the armed forces.
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Bunong Villagers Barred From Attending Illegal-Logging Protest
Authorities in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Creada district yesterday set up roadblocks to prevent indigenous minority villagers from traveling to Sen Monorom City to attend to illegal logging, villagers and authorities said.
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Government Blames Protest Deaths on Election Report
The Councils of Ministers, in a document issued on Tuesday, has claimed that civil society organizations that released a report detailing irregularities in July’s national election are in league with the opposition CNRP and working to overthrow the CPP government.
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Restore Free Assembly, UN Rights Council Says
Cambodia’s human rights record was assessed yesterday by the U.N. Human Rights Council’s 47 member states in Geneva, many of which cited concerns about the recent violent suppression of protests by the government, and a judiciary beholden to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling CPP.
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Fake Orphanage Ordered Closed After Alleged Migrant Scam
The Ministry on Interior has suspended the operation of an orphanage after it found that its director had colluded with a recruitment agency to cheat migrant workers out of an alleged $600,000, officials said yesterday.
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New Cambodian Ambassadors Told to Counter CNRP ‘Distortion’
CPP National Assembly President Heng Samrin has ordered Cambodia’s newest ambassadors to Asia and Europe to go on a public relations offensive against mounting news abroad that the country’s respect for democracy and human rights is slipping.
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Workers Call for Fired Colleagues to be Reinstated
Hundreds of garment workers protested outside the Vattanac Industrial Park 2 in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district yesterday, calling for the reinstatement of 11 workers they claim were unfairly dismisses from their jobs at the Chinese owned Dongdu Textile factory after they set up a union.
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Sok An, UN Delegates Discuss Khmer Rouge Tribunal Funding
Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on Monday met with members of a high-level U.N. delegation to discuss the work and financial future of the cash strapped Khmer Rouge tribunal, with the government pledging $1.1 million to cover the salaries of national staff for the first quarter of the year, according to a joint statement yesterday.
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After Grenade Attack, a Suspect Swear Innocence
KOMPONG THOM PROVINCE – Uy Hap, the chief of Choam village, is keeping a list in his notebook of the people who were killed and injured by the grenade attack on a wedding party on Saturday night.
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