Majority of Union Reduce Wage Demands

Six of the 10 labor union negotiating with the country’s garment manufactures over a new minimum wage for factory workers dropped their demands yesterday to $73 per month, breaking previous commitments by unions to stand together at $91.

Program on Rights and Justice in Cambodia (PRAJ)

In a similar vein, EWMI has worked with one of its local partners, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), to develop sithi.org, a shared online human rights database. Accessed by 3000 new users each month, the web portal represents a dramatic shift in civil society access to rights documentation through its shared mapping of human rights violations and land concessions. As evidence of this project’s impact, the CCHR won the Information Society Innovation Fund 2011 Award under the category of “Rights and Freedoms” for sithi.org’s role in advocating for social change and in promoting the civil and political rights of Cambodian citizens.

Last Three Kratie Province ‘’Secessionists’ Released From Prison

It was not the hero’s welcome the greeted Mam Sonando when more than a thousand boisterous supporters cheered his release from Prey Sar prison on Friday and lifted the popular radio station owner onto their shoulders for an impromptu parade.

Cambodia Holds Six on 'Terrorism’ Charges

Cambodia has detained a group of four ethnic minority Khmer Krom from Vietnam and two locals accused of terrorism and plotting armed revolt against the Cambodian government in charges that have been rejected by rights groups. The men were arrested in Thailand and deported to Cambodia last week, National Police Commission spokesman Kiet Chantharith said Tuesday. He linked the men to an alleged terrorist group, saying police are preparing to make further related arrests. "We are investigating the Khmer Front Movement. We have a list of suspects and we are working on the case," he said.

Wife of Ieng Sary To Travel for His Funeral

BANTEAY MEANCHEY Province - Ieng Thirith, the wife of deceased former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, will arrive in Malai district, Banteay Meanchey province, Wednesday for the funeral of her husband, family members said Tuesday. Ieng Thirith had been on trial with her husband for atrocity crimes before the UN-backed tribunal found her mentally unfit to stand trial last year. The cremation ceremony of Ieng Sary, who died in Phnom Penh March 14, will take place on Thursday. Family members say Ieng Thirith is ill, but will be able to travel.

Hun Sen Says He’ s Not to Blame for KRT’s Woes

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday shot back at allegations made by the Asia director at Human Rights Watch that the he has deliberately and continuously stalled work of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, and that he was responsible for Ieng Sary dying before a verdict could be reached.

Hun Sen urges Khmer Rouge Tribunal to speed up

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The Prime Minister urges the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to speed up trials for the remaining two "very old" Khmer Rouge leaders, Noun Chea and Khieu Samphan, after the death of regime co-founder, Ieng Sary,87. The remarks were made Tuesday in the opening ceremony on Green Growth where the Prime Minister said, he wasn't the one who slowed down the procedures of the UN-backed tribunal.

Hun Sen: activist imprisonment not over land dispute

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Hun Sen said the imprisonment of the "Boeung Kok woman" wasn't a land dispute issue, it was of violence instead. Speaking at inauguration ceremony for Green Development Council at Peace Palace, he said the case of land activist, Youm Bopha, had nothing to due with land activism, she was acting violently and unjustly in the eyes of the government. For some unknown reason they transferred the case to land disputes.

In Death, Ieng Sary’s Reach, Reparation

When Khmer Rouge war crime suspect Ieng Sary passed away las week, so too did any chance of recovering the large amounts of money and property he is believed to have accumulated as one of Pol Pot’s inner circle, and then later as leader of rebel forces in the Pailin area in the 1990s when gem mining and logging were at their height .

Tribunal Interpreters Return To Work After Strike

PHNOM PENH - Interpreters and translators at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal returned to work Monday, following a walkout over salaries more than two weeks ago. They have been promised at least part of their salaries, which have not been paid since December, though tribunal officials did not say when that would happen. The tribunal is seeking to try two men—Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan—following the death of a third former leader, Ieng Sary, last week.

Cambodian Logging in Thailand Shot , Injured

Two men were shot and injured by Thai soldier on Saturday while illegally logging rosewood across the border from Preah Vihear province.’ “Two people were shot and injured by Thai soldiers,” said Preah Vihear province’s RCAF commander Som Bopharath, adding that his soldiers were looking for the two men who are currently believed to be in hiding from authorities.

Hun Sen Orders Homes of Evictees Rebuilt

Prime Minister Hun Sen has overruled a 2011 decision by the Council of Ministers to grant 350 hectares of land in Preah Sihanouk province- from which 49 families were forcefully evicted by authorities earlier this month-to a brewery.

Ruling Party Wraps Up Two-Day Congress Ahead of Election

PHNOM PENH - Members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have ended a two-day congress, vowing to create a coalition with the small royalist Funcinpec party to contest the opposition in July’s national election. Some 2,000 party members and supporters met in Phnom Penh, vowing to reinstate Prime Minister Hun Sen should the party win the July 28 election, according to a CPP statement. The country’s two opposition parties will form one, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, to take on the CPP, which won the 2008 election with 90 of 123 National Assembly seats.

Ten-year-old Raped in Bunteay Meanchey Province

A 10-year-old girl raped on Thursday in Bunteay Meanchey province’s Svay Chek district after accepting a ride on a Stranger’s motorcycle, police said yesterday. “After the perpetrator saw the girl walking home from school he offered her ride, but instead, he took her a small wooded area where he raped her,” said Yort Sophall , district police chief.

In Former Khmer Rouge Stronghold, Ieng Sary Mourned

BANTEAY MEANCHEY PROVINCE - In the yard of a small wooden house in remote Banteay Meanchey province, the body of Khmer Rouge co-founder Ieng Sary lies in state, surrounded by wreaths and awaiting cremation. Visitors to the site all wore white, where former soldiers of the regime are indistinguishable from the “new people.” They came in small groups to pay their respects, following his death March 14 in Phnom Penh, were he was on trial for atrocity crimes. His body will be cremated about 100 kilometers from Pailin town, where in 1996 Ieng Sary led a major Khmer Rouge defection that helped end decades of civil war.

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Elderly Woman Raped and Murdered in Kampot City

Police arrested a kampot man Friday for allegedly raping and strangling to death a 74-year-old woman. Provincial penal police chief Kong Sokhon said the suspect,32-year-old Thatth Peourn, was apprehended on Friday evening shortly after a farm owner reported to the local police that where she worked making handicraft .

Sonando’s Co-Defendants Expected to Be Released Tuesday

Three men convicted in Octorber along with independent radio station owner Mam Sonando on secession charges will be release from Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison tomorrow, according to rights group Adhoc. Their release comes on the heels of Mr. Sonando supporters on Friday.

Hun Sen: to rebuild homes in Sihanoukville

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The Prime Minister ordered 49 family's houses to be rebuild at Keo Pus Village, in the Steung Hav District of Sihanoukville, after they had been demolished by authorities earlier this month. In a letter dated Sunday to Mong Reththy, Cambodia's tycoon and CPP Senator, Hun Sen said he would be responsible for the money to rebuild the homes and told the senator to give temporary shelter for the villagers in the meantime.

Two opposing groups protest at Ministry of Interior

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Two separate groups staged vocal protests against one another in front of the Ministry of Interior Monday. The Taxi drivers, from the Cambodia for Confederation Development Association, demanded Sar Kheng, minister of interior, explain why Boeung Kak Lake residents frequently disturb the peace, by rioting and protesting, in their attempts to seek the release of land activist Youm Bopha. They had accused Youm Bopha, who is currently in jail, of neglect and mistreatment towards taxi drivers.