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Sonando’s Organization Sees Defections to Funcinpec Party
The Association of democratic, a pro-democracy group led by Mam Sonando –the popular radio station owner recently free from the prison- held a meeting on Saturday to elect members to the organization after five left to join other political parties while he was in jail.
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Funcinpec party Hold National Congress Ahead of Election
The royalist Funcipenc party which won Cambodian’s first democratic election in 1993 but managed to secure only two of 123 National Assembly seats in that latest national election in 2008, held its National Congress on Saturday.
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Police Shut Orphanages Accused of Neglect , Sexual Abuse
Police shut down an Australian run orphanage in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Friday after children from the organization’s center escaped last month and reported incidents of beatings, anti-human trafficking NGO Sisha said in a statement.
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Audit Finds a Degraded Voter Registry for July Polls
PHNOM PENH - Election monitors say the quality of voter registration lists has degraded since 2008, leading to a lower standard in the upcoming national election in July. The registry is less comprehensive, less accurate and less up-to-date than it was five years ago, according to a voter registration audit by the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections and the US-based National Democratic Institute.
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Hun Sen, vote for the CPP in the elections
KAMPONG THOM (The Cambodia Herald) – The Prime Minister appealed Thursday to the populace of Cambodia to vote for the CPP and support his candidature in the upcoming elections on July 27, 2013. Speaking at opening ceremony for, Sampov Trai Lok and Sampov Trai Leak, he spoke of the CPP's achievements for it's citizens, from the recent reforms of fishing concessions to land title distributions.
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Fighting to save Cambodia's Prey Lang forest
Developers and loggers are threatening to permanently destroy Cambodia's Prey Lang forest, one of Southeast Asia’s last remaining lowland evergreen woodlands. One rural woman is leading the fight to save the region. When people first meet Mao Chanthoeun, they might not associate this small, slight woman with the dangerous fight to save Cambodia's Prey Lang forest. But appearances can be deceiving. The 32-year-old has gone from being a traditional farmer in rural Cambodia to a highly visible and committed advocate for the forest, although her work toward preserving this natural resource has come with a good deal of personal sacrifice.
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Funcinpec To Appoint Princess To Lead Party
PHNOM PENH - The royalist Funcinpec party will hold a national congress on Saturday, where more than 3,000 members are expected to discuss the future of the party and upcoming elections in July. Nhiek Bun Chhay, the party’s secretary-general, told reporters Friday the party expects to appoint Princess Norodom Arun Reaksmey, the youngest daughter of former king Norodom Sihanouk, to be party president.
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Khmer Rouge Co-Founder Cremated in Former Regime Redoubt
BANTEAY MEANCHEY Province - The body of former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary was cremated Thursday at a ceremony in his home village in a former Khmer Rouge stronghold. Columns of black smoke rose from the crematorium built in front of his small home in Dong village, Malai district, Banteay Meanchey province, as more than 1,000 people stood in attendance, most of them former Khmer Rouge cadre.
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Evicted Railway Families Facing Debt ‘Crisis’
Debt levels among the more than 1,000 families being evicted by a $142.6 million railway project bankrolled by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have reached “crisis” proportions and require major intervention, according to a U.S resettlement expert who was hired by the ADB to study the impacts of the project.
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Sok An Meets UN Envoy Over KR Tribunal Funding Crisis
With the death of a defendant, a funding short and industrial action miring the Khmer Rouge tribunal , Deputy Prime Minister Sok An yesterday met with the U.S’s envoy on the war crimes court to discuss its future , according to a statement.
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Evidence Scant Against (Another) Alleged Terrorist Group
Police yesterday said they had documents proving that six men arrested in Thailand and spirited back to Cambodia over the past two weeks belonged to an armed antigovernment group and were panning terrorist attack against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. “The evidence is documents. Documents related to the Khmer Salvation Front that includes the memorandum of the front in order to conducts activities against the Royal Government of Cambodia,” said Lieutenat General Kirth Chantarith , spokesman for the National Police.
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Hundreds Attend Ex-Khmer Rouge Leader’s Cremation
Some 1,000 mourners attended the cremation Thursday of Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, who died last week while on trial for genocide and war crimes. At a ceremony in Malai in northwestern Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province, relatives and former regime cadres paid their last respects to the leader, who had co-founded the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. His body was cremated at 6:30 in the evening with former Khmer Rouge soldier and Pailin governor Y Chhieng lighting the torch.
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Cheap Data, Better Tech Putting More Cambodians Online
PHNOM PENH - Communications technology continues to boom in Cambodia, providing cheaper Internet for an increasing number of users. The number of Internet Service Providers is now 24, increasing competition and lower prices for and expanding number of consumers. Aside from tablets and smart phones, Cambodians can go online in more than 300 Internet cafes in Phnom Penh alone. At a coffee shop called Brown in the capital, Chang Bunleang, a managing partner there, said cafes like this one need an Internet connection. A lower price would be good for businesses that have come to rely not only a Web connection, but also database systems, web hosting and data centers, he said. Chak Sopheab, a program director at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said Internet access is “essential” for many Cambodians, especially the young, to help them become more involved in society and their studies.
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Undersecretary of state removed from office
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Hun Sen announced Wednesday that he had removed the under secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice from his post. Speaking in an assembly at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia, he referred to the undersecretary of state, Yean Sina and former lawyer, David Chinawa, as old gangsters.
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Teenager in court for raping young girl
TAKEO (The Cambodia Herald) – Police have sent a teenage boy to Takeo Provincial Court on Wednesday for raping a five-year-old girl. The boy is identified as Ry Sopheak, 16, and was arrested after raping the victim on Monday in Roka Krao commune, Duan Keo district. The victim's mother said that, Ry Sopheak, raped her daughter when she went to urinate in near some banana trees. But the suspect denied the allegation, saying that he had only inserted a pencil into the little girl's vagina.
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Hun Sen Likens New Opposition to ‘Old Whiskeys Rebottled’
With the national election little more than four months away Prime Minister Hun Sen entered full campaign mode yesterday and compared the newly formed opposition party to two old whiskeys that have been mixed together and rebottled to look different.
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UN, Government meet over problems in remaining trials
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The UN's special expert on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Ambassador David Scheffer, met Deputy Prime Minister, Sok An, on Wednesday to discuss the main problems that the trials were facing such as lack of funds and the elderly ages of the suspects.
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Three More Released After Beehive Radio Owner
PHNOM PENH - Three villagers who were detained last year alongside Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando were released from prison on Tuesday, following 10 months in detention. Touch Rem, Kan Sovann and Phorn Srouen were arrested following a government crackdown in Kratie province in May and accused of being part of a secessionist movement. The suspects said they had been arrested and erroneously charged, as Mam Sonando was. They were sentenced to five years each in prison.
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Hun Sen Has Last Word on Preah Sihanouk
Armed with guns and machetes, about 200 police officers and local officials stormed Keo Phos villagers in Preah Sihanouk province’s Stung Hav district earlier this month to evict 21 families from their home. Behind the phalanx of the police and local government workers, noisily excavators and the bulldozers drove in to flatten the homes and other structures on the 350-hectare site.
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Victims Call for Ieng Sary’s Assets to Be Seized
Civil parties who suffered under the Khmer Rouge yesterday called on the government to try to take back the riches illegitimately amassed by the regime’s former foreign minister Ieng Sary.
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