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Anti-Corruption Unit Issues Warning to Prince Thomico
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has issued a warning letter to Prince Sisowath Thomico, an election candidate for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), telling him to declare his assets with the body within a week or face the possibility of imprisonment, according to a letter obtained yesterday.
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CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday that he would ask the government to cancel the land concession of a Vietnamese rubber firm in Ratanakkiri province he accused of logging and exporting wood illegally following a visit of the area.
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UN Envoy Meets With NEC President, Discusses Concern
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi held a two-hour closed-door meeting with National Election Committee (NEC) President Im Suosdey yesterday, during which the special rapporteur addressed concerns about the selection of the NEC officials and the use of state property during election campaigns.
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Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi yesterday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banner calling for him to end his work in Cambodia.
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Jarai Man Files Complaint Over Death Threats
An ethnic Jarai man filed a complaint with the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday , according to the chief of his village of threatening to excommunicate or kill him for speaking out about the sale of a plot of sacred forest land in O’Yadav to a local rubber company.
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Stampede at Shoe Factory, Site of Last Week’s Deadly Collapse
PHNOM PENH — There’s been more trouble at the Wing Star shoe factory in Kampong Speu province, which suffered a partial collapse last week. Workers at the Taiwanese factory say fears of a short circuit in wiring at the factory Monday caused a stampede of jittery employees, causing about 20 of them to feint.
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Kem Sokha Challenges Hun Sen to TV Debate
Kem Sokha, acting president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), yesterday rallied a 3,000-strong crowed supporters at the Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park saying that Prime Minister Hun Sen’s decades-old leadership in the country had gone on far too long.
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UN Human Rights Envoy to Meet Hun Sen
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi met with CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun at the National Assembly yesterday and was told he would be granted a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen during his current, ninth visit to Cambodia.
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Seven Feared Trapped in Gold Mine Collapse
PHNOM PENH — A gold mine shaft has collapsed in Preah Vihear province, trapping at least seven miners, officials said Monday. Police said late Monday they are trying to rescue the trapped miners, near Romtum village, Rovieng district, but the shaft is very deep and old, making rescue efforts difficult.
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Factory Dining Hall Collapses in Phnom Penh; 23 Injured
The dining hall of the garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district that supplies clothes to U.S. branch Gap collapsed into a pond yesterday injuring more than 20 workers and official said. The hall, which is part of Top World Garment (Cambodia) Ltd. in kbal Koh commune but outside the main building, collapsed at 11:40 a.m.; according to commune police chief Mao Rith.
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Factory Orders Staff Back to Work Amid Safety Concerns
Employee at a Taiwanese owned shoe factory in Kompong Speu province where two workers were killed when one of the building’s floors collapsed on Thursday have been ordered back o work today, despite ongoing concerns from labor activists about the building’s safety.
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Protesters Block National Road Over Energy Price
About 300 people on Saturday blocked off a stretch of National Road 5 in Banteay Meanchey province protesting what they claim is an unfair increases in electricity price.
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UN-Envoy Arrived for Fact-Finding Mission
U.N. human rights envoy to Cambodia Surya Subedi arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday for his latest fact-finding mission to see what progress the government has made on implementing his much recommendation for democratic reform.
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Unions Ask Court, Brands for Help in Bavet Case
More than 20 local trade unions on Saturday urged the Svay Rieng Provincial Court to prosecute Chhouk Bundith, the former Bavet City governor charged in connection with A February 2012 factory shooting during a violent protest that left three females garment workers injured.
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EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions, for Now
The trade commissioner and foreign affaire representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concession, but said they were monitoring the issue closely.
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Trouble Village Embroiled in New Land Disputes
Broma Village, Kratie Province- A year after massive military raid there left a 14-year-old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural villager into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and government-issued social land concession for other evictees in the province are creating problems in the area.
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Cambodian Opposition Petitions EU, UN on Fair Election
Thousands of supporters of Cambodia’s main opposition party marched through the streets of Phnom Penh Monday calling for international pressure on the country’s government to postpone July national elections and reform its electoral procedures. The demonstrators, led by Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) deputy president Kem Sokha, gathered at Freedom Park and marched to the European Union Delegation to Cambodia and United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) to seek support for their demands.
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13 injured in lunch-shed collapse
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- 13 garment workers are injured when the lunch-shed they were in had collapsed on them at the Hong Kong-owned Top World Garment (Cambodia), Ltd. factory. The shed which is used by workers for breaks and having lunch fell around 12 o’clock in the afternoon, according to Yanrath Keopisey, an official from the Free Trade Union of Workers, who was at the scene.
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NRP’s march continued despite prevention
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The National Rescue Party (NRP) held their second demonstration on Monday with around 3,000 people in attendance. After leaving Democratic Park, the protestors marched on Paster street to present petitions to targeted buildings, but Anti-riot police prevented them from marching any further, saying that the permission for the march was not authorized by the Ministry of Interior.
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American, Cambodian Charged With Indecent Acts
Sihanoukville Provincial Court on Saturday charged a U.S. national, described as a Baptist preacher, and a Cambodian man with indecent acts after they sexually abused three boys younger than 15, official said yesterday.
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