National strategic plan to fight human trafficking launched
The government has launched a strategic plan to combat all forms of human trafficking over the next five years. The goal is to gradually reduce and ultimately eliminate human trafficking. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501534039/national-strategic-plan-to-fight-human-trafficking-launched/
Another Worker Faints at M&V Garment Factory
Another worker fainted at the M&V International Manufacturing Ltd garment factory in Kompong Chhnang yesterday morning, sparking “hysteria” and resulting in 10 workers having to return home to rest, a union official said. Two mass-fainting incidents occurred at the factory, which produces clothes for outfitter ...
Phok Dorn and Alice Burke, P. 35
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Strikers ordered back to work
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered on Tuesday that workers striking at Cambo Handsome 1 return to work within 48 hours and banned them from striking in front of the garment factory, in the capital’s Dankgor district. Seang Sambath, president of the Federation of Friendship Unions, ...
44 Faint at Phnom Penh Garment Factory Chim Ly
Forty-four garment workers on Friday fainted at the Chim Ly garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, a police official said yesterday. Kambol commune police chief Phan Phoeun said that at first only a few workers fainted, then others followed suit “because they saw other ...
Activist Tep Vanny makes new bid for release from Cambodia prison
Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny is making another bid for release in a case that sent her to prison over a 2013 protest outside the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Vanny’s sister, Huot Chansovann, filed a petition on Monday to Hun Sen’s ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-tep-vanny-makes-new-bid-release-cambodia-prison
Ministry slams HRW over report on acid victims
The Justice Ministry yesterday hit back at US-based Human Rights Watch over a report accusing the government of failing to provide free medical treatment for victims of acid attacks or take action against perpetrators. HRW on Monday issued a 48-page report titled “What Hell Feels Like: ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575560/ministry-slams-hrw-over-report-on-acid-victims/
Cambodian army backs business group in land dispute, defying government order
Cambodia’s military is backing a powerful company in its seizure of land in Preah Vihear province, guarding bulldozers sent to destroy villagers’ crops and defying government orders not to get involved in land disputes, Cambodian sources say. Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service on Wednesday, one village ...
Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/army-03062019164901.html
Mahathir Mohamad speaks on Kingdom’s democracy
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday urged Cambodian students to be proud of their culture while adopting aspects of democracy that work for the Kingdom. Mr Mahathir is in the Kingdom for three days, along with his wife Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali and a delegation of ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50639704/mahathir-mohamad-speaks-on-kingdoms-democracy/
Voice of America planning to discuss buying air-time
Voice of America (VOA) has contacted Beehive Radio FM 105 and Radio FM 102 to discuss buying air-time to broadcast again, they said. VOA had recently received approval from the Minister of Information to go on air. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/voice-america-planning-discuss-buying-air-time
In New York, Hun Sen laments slurs, slams CNRP
Prime Minister Hun Sen addressed a group of Cambodian expatriates in New York on Thursday, calling for an end to politically divisive rhetoric and assuring them that he was speaking as a government leader who represented all Cambodians, not as a party politician.However, he also ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-new-york-hun-sen-laments-slurs-slams-cnrp-95549/
PM condemns attack
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday condemned the savage beating of two opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly on Monday, before then insisting the violence was wholly unrelated to the pro-ruling party rally from which its perpetrators emerged.In a rare televised address to the nation, the ...
Chhay Channyda, Meas Sokchea and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-condemns-attack
Bodyguard Unit ties for leader of rally group
The honorary president of the CPP-aligned youth group involved in last week’s protest outside parliament, which ended with two opposition lawmakers being savagely beaten, is a deputy commander in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit, the Post has learned.Three soldiers were charged on Wednesday over the ...
Chhay Channyda and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodyguard-unit-ties-leader-rally-group
Man briefly detained over criticism of gov’t
A man in Kampong Speu’s Oral district was briefly placed under house arrest yesterday, following his public criticism of the government and prime minister at a town hall meeting.Ung Ny, Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) Oral district executive director, said that 45-year-old Hay Hoeun, a ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-briefly-detained-over-criticism-govt
Trying to stop ‘the wind of freedom’ from reaching Cambodia
The victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s movement in Burma after years of military rule and repression is already starting to unnerve autocrats nearby. Last week, Sam Rainsy, an opposition leader in Cambodia, declared that the democrats’ “resounding” victory “has created panic among the last ...
PM: China will open markets
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that China gave assurances that it will grant greater access for Cambodia’s agricultural products to enter its markets. “It is my mission to ensure that domestic goods, especially agricultural products, can be exported to China in greater quantities. I just ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29640/pm--china-will-open-markets/
Rainsy gets help from US Congress
Sixteen members of the US Congress have signed a joint letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen calling on the premier to “immediately cease the harassment and persecution” of the opposition.The letter, sent late last week, pointed to the National Assembly’s decision last month to expel ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-gets-help-us-congress
Ahead of Xi visit, relations with China at level ‘never seen before’
Cambodia’s relationship with China is at an all-time high, officials said on Wednesday, as authorities braced for the arrival of the country’s premier Xi Jinping today with the deployment of some 7,000 security personnel. During a meeting between China’s new ambassador to Cambodia, Xiong Bo, and ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ahead-xi-visit-relations-china-level-never-seen-119221/
Rift with UN rights body ends
The government has patched up a quarrel with the United Nations’ human rights wing less than two weeks before the organization would have been forced out of Cambodia. But the two-year agreement came with a reminder of Cambodia’s sovereignty and the principle of non-interference in national ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33398/rift-with-un-rights-body-ends/
Hun Sen: rights organisation CCHR will not be shut down
In an unexpected turn, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Saturday that the outspoken Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) will not be shut down, despite accusing the local NGO last week of serving foreign interests. In an article posted to government mouthpiece Fresh News, the ...
Leonie Kijewski and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-rights-organisation-cchr-will-not-be-shut-down
Hun Manet: Sihanoukville is not Macau
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces chief of joint staff Hun Manet has said he disagrees that Preah Sihanouk province, where Chinese investment in hotels and casinos has skyrocketed, will become a second Macau. Lieutenant General Manet made the comment on Monday during a ground-breaking ceremony for the ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112151/hun-manet-sihanoukville-is-not-macau/