Luon Savath speaks to reporters during a demonstration at Boeung Kak lake earlier this week. Photograph: Meng Kimlong/Phnom Penh PostSenior members of the monastic community this morning detained Buddhist monk Loun Savath, an award-winning human rights activist, after he took photos of protesting Boeung Kak lake villagers outside Phnom Penh municipal court...
Workers demolish houses on the edge of Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh in 2010. More than 4,000 families have been affected by the Shukaku Inc development. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh PostIn the face of increasing economic land concessions and ongoing restrictions on expression, disaffected Cambodians were increasingly taking to the streets with success, Amnesty International representatives said yesterday at the launch of their annual report...
With a looming deadline to move still two days away, police yesterday stormed tiny Rayum commune in Mondulkiri province, dismantling and burning at least 50 homes belonging to villagers embroiled in a land dispute with a Vietnamese rubber company...
A woman types a text message on a mobile phone at an office in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh PostCambodia is drafting its first cyber law, a move designed to prevent “ill-willed groups or individuals” from spreading false information, government officials said yesterday...
Military police officers watch a group of Boeung Kak lake residents, who gathered outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday to wait for information about 13 villagers who were arrested on Tuesday. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh PostThirteen women hauled into police vehicles during a demonstration at Boeung Kak lake on Tuesday were being held without charge at Phnom Penh police headquarters last night...
An assistant to RCAF’s Cabinet of General Command and his wife have been arrested by anti-drug police for their alleged involvement in trafficking in the capital, a senior police official said yesterday. ..
Four Cambodian women working at a garment factory in China have said they want to leave but are trapped there because the employer has taken their passports. ..
Former Khmer Rouge regime deputy prime minister Ieng Sary’s health would not improve and “stabilising” him was the best that could be hoped for, doctors told judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday...
Security guards clashed yesterday with workers from two SL Garment factories that supply Levi’s, Gap and H&M, as the number of employees protesting exceeded 5,500 – or more than 90 per cent of the staff...
Eleven soldiers in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district were suspended yesterday from their posts at a military weapons warehouse after three guns went missing on their watch, a district police officer said. ..
Protesters chant anti-China slogans as they march towards the Chinese consulate in Manila’s Makati financial district earlier this month in the Philippines. Photograph: ReutersAn Asean working group yesterday finalised key elements of a Code of Conduct aimed at governing relations between countries who claim sovereignty over parts of the South China Sea, officials said...
Drowning has emerged as a leading cause of death for those aged 17 and under in Cambodia, accounting for half of non-illness-related deaths among young people, a new UNICEF report shows...
About 100 employees of Honda NCX strike outside the company’s motorcycle assembly factory in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh PostMore than 100 staffers protested outside a Honda NCX company in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune yesterday because they say employees are being sacked for trying to unionise, among other grievances...
Eighty-two per cent of 1,200 people surveyed feel that Cambodia’s democracy works, despite 50 per cent calling corruption a major issue in the national government, according to figures released by the Center for Advanced Study yesterday...
Missing woman turns up floating in pondA woman's corpse was found floating on a pond in Banteay Meanchey’s O’Chrou district on Tuesday. Residents spotted the body while swimming in the pond and reported it to the police. The victim’s family said she had gone missing after going to market a few days earlier. Officers suspected this could have been a robbery case. Rasmey Kampuchea ..
One Cambodian was killed and 22 seriously injured in a high-speed police chase in Thailand on Monday – less than a month after similar incidents claimed the lives of 10 Cambodians. ..
Farmers transplant rice seedlings in Prek Liep commune, in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district earlier this year. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh PostAfter more than a year of speculation on Cambodian rice exports to China, a rice exporter this week said China has granted the Kingdom permission to ship milled rice northward...
Two farmers were seriously injured by a landmine yesterday morning in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town, according to the Cambodian Mine Action Center. ..
Luon Savath speaks to reporters during a demonstration at Boeung Kak lake earlier this week. Photograph: Meng Kimlong/Phnom Penh PostSenior members of the monastic community this morning detained Buddhist monk Loun Savath, an award-winning human rights activist, after he took photos of protesting Boeung Kak lake villagers outside Phnom Penh municipal court...
Workers demolish houses on the edge of Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh in 2010. More than 4,000 families have been affected by the Shukaku Inc development. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh PostIn the face of increasing economic land concessions and ongoing restrictions on expression, disaffected Cambodians were increasingly taking to the streets with success, Amnesty International representatives said yesterday at the launch of their annual report...
A woman types a text message on a mobile phone at an office in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh PostCambodia is drafting its first cyber law, a move designed to prevent “ill-willed groups or individuals” from spreading false information, government officials said yesterday...
Military police officers watch a group of Boeung Kak lake residents, who gathered outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday to wait for information about 13 villagers who were arrested on Tuesday. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh PostThirteen women hauled into police vehicles during a demonstration at Boeung Kak lake on Tuesday were being held without charge at Phnom Penh police headquarters last night...
Protesters chant anti-China slogans as they march towards the Chinese consulate in Manila’s Makati financial district earlier this month in the Philippines. Photograph: ReutersAn Asean working group yesterday finalised key elements of a Code of Conduct aimed at governing relations between countries who claim sovereignty over parts of the South China Sea, officials said...
About 100 employees of Honda NCX strike outside the company’s motorcycle assembly factory in Phnom Penh yesterday. Photograph: Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh PostMore than 100 staffers protested outside a Honda NCX company in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune yesterday because they say employees are being sacked for trying to unionise, among other grievances...
Farmers transplant rice seedlings in Prek Liep commune, in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district earlier this year. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh PostAfter more than a year of speculation on Cambodian rice exports to China, a rice exporter this week said China has granted the Kingdom permission to ship milled rice northward...
