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Hun Sen says Thomico doesn't defend royal family
PREY VENG (The Cambodia Herald) -- Prime Minister Hun Sen strongly criticized Prince Sisowath Thomico who believed himself to be a royalist defender during last month's National Rescue Party (NRP) public forum, saying that it was just a game of politics to him.
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Three Killed in Cambodian Shoe Factory Collapse
A building at a factory complex in Cambodia contracted by Japanese footwear retailer Asics collapsed Thursday killing at least three workers and injuring ten, according to officials who vowed to investigate working conditions in the country’s garment plants. Employees were working underneath a concrete-reinforced storeroom used to house equipment when the ceiling gave way at the Taiwan-owned Wing Star Shoes factory in Kompong Speu province, Minister of Social Affairs Ith Samheng told reporters.
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CCHR welcome determination of newly appointed governor in land resolution
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) - PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) welcomed the determination of the newly-appointed Phnom Penh governor in solving the remaining land disputes. Recently, Pa Socheat Vong, the new governor, allowed six representatives from the long disputed Beoung Kak area to meet and discuss with him to find a solution to the problems.
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Residents rally at palace for release of land activist
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Around 30 residents from Boeung Kok, Borei Kei and Thmor kol communities gathered and knelt down Monday in front of the Royal Palace to seek intervention from the King to release jailed land activist Yorm Bopha.
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Protesters Deliver Plea to Royal Palace for Release of Activist
PHNOM PENH - Housing rights demonstrators gathered in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to demand the release of one of their representatives. Palace officials accepted a letter for King Norodom Sihamoni, asking him to intervene in Yorm Bopha’s case.
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Cambodia Opposition Party to Resubmit Election Registration
The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party is set to submit a corrected list of its candidates in the upcoming July 28 general election on Wednesday, and the new list will omit exiled politician Sam Rainsy’s name just like the old version, party officials said. But despite having dropped him as a candidate, the party will continue to pursue reforms allowing Sam Rainsy—who faces imprisonment if he returns to Cambodia on charges he contends are politically motivated—to contest the polls, with plans to stage a demonstration in Phnom Penh next week.
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Resident Call for Foul-Smelling Factory to Move
About 100 people protested Wednesday evening outside Phnom Penh ice-making factory owned by the daughter of deputy Kompong Speu governor Tong Seng, complaining that the factory causes a bad smell and that the health of residents in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer 6 commune was suffering as a result.
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Villagers Submit Compliant About Wildlife NGO
More than 100 villagers locked in a long-standing land dispute with a Wildlife NGO in Koh Kong province’s Mondol Seima district have submitted a complaint to the provincial governor, requesting their farmland be demarcated as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s land-titling project.
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Opposition Lawmakers Want ‘Social’ Land to Go to Farmers
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian lawmakers have passed a new law on agriculture, but critics say the law does not go far enough to protect the country’s farmers. The law passed on Thursday evening, but not before debate at the National Assembly.
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A call to freeze lawmakers' wages
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) senior official, Cheam Yeap, asked the chairman of the National Assembly Wednesday, to freeze wages for lawmakers from the two different opposition parties who had left to join the newly-formed National Rescue Party (NRP).
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Thailand and Cambodia Agree to Begin Joint Border Patrols
Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Wednesday to being joint patrols along their shared border in the hopes of stemming the flow of illegal migrant workers and of Cambodians who sneak into Thailand to log rosewood-often with fatal consequence.
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In Testimony, Historian Analyzes Khmer Rouge Downfall
PHNOM PENH - British historian and Pol Pot biographer Philip Short continued his testimony at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Thursday, describing the downfall of the regime and some of the underlying causes of its brutality. Short is testifying in the case against two former leaders—ideologue Nuon Chea and head of state Khieu Samphan—both of whom are charged with atrocity crimes, including genocide.
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International Community Must Help Cambodian Democracy, Opposition Leader Says
WASHINGTON DC - Opposition leader Sam Rainsy joined a panel of experts in Washington on Wednesday to discuss further promotion of democracy in Cambodia. The talk, joined by about 100 participants at the Wilson Center, a think tank in the capital, was aimed at finding ways to create free and fair elections in Cambodia in national polls July 28.
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CPP Says CNRP lawmakers Have No Rights to Sit in Parliament
Senior CPP lawmakers yesterday said member of the recently formed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) had no legal rights to be in the National Assembly, but were being tolerated only by the grace of assembly President Heng Samrin.
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Phnom Penh, Seoul See Joint Eviction Protests
Anti-eviction activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak neighborhood yesterday held joint protests aimed at soliciting the help of South Korea, both at the country’s embassy here and at Cambodia’s embassy in Seoul.
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CPP Lawmaker Calls for Pay Freeze on CNRP
Senior of CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap yesterday sent a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen and National Assembly President Heng Samrin asking the government to freeze the wages of all lawmakers belonging to the opposition Cambodia Rescue Party (CNRP), claiming that the newly formed party is not yet legally entitle to have its members sit in the assembly.
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NRP considering whether or not to include Sam Rainsy
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Currently, an exiled Sam Rainsy, head of the National Rescue Party (NRP), is under consideration by the NRP on the issue of whether or not to include him in the candidate list to represent them in the Province of Kandal to compete with Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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CPP Releases a Second Recording of Opposition Sparring
In the future attempt to discredit the opposition, the government yesterday released a second audio clip of the leaders of the recently formed Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) insulting one another back when they headed rival opposition parties.
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Court Hears Case of Man Who Raped 6-year-old
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of a 20-year-old man who in 2011 was convicted and sentenced by the Battambang Provincial Court to four years in prison for repeatedly raping a 6-year-old girl who lived in his village. The provincial court had also ordered then 18-year-old Mich Sokchea, from Ratanak Mondol district’s Sdo commune, to pay the victim’s family 4 million riel, or about $1,000.
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Author says Starving the People Was Not Khmer Rouge Policy
While the end of result of the Khmer Rouge regime’s ultra-Marxist ideology was the death of an estimated 1.7 million people, its leader did not set out to exterminate their own countrymen, expert witness and author Philip Short testified at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal yesterday.
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