Forces prevent Women’s Day march
Some 400 women from various associations, unions and civil society organisation were blocked by Phnom Penh municipal security forces from marching from the Olympic Stadium to the Council of Ministers to deliver a joint petition on International Women’s Day which fell on Friday. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forces-prevent-womens-day-march
Census to run until March 13
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on Cambodians to take part in the national census by providing accurate information to officers in order to obtain correct national statistics for the Kingdom’s development. And as if to prove his point, the prime minister also gave an ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/census-run-until-march-13
Mackerel fishing banned until March 31
The Fisheries Administration Department announced a temporary ban on mackerel fishing from Tuesday until March 31, as the fish’s breeding season is approaching. Head of the department, Hong Hy, said: “To ensure the sustainability of maritime resources in Cambodia, the fisheries department prohibits mackerel fishing ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mackerel-fishing-banned-until-march-31
Land protestors march on US embassy
Residents of two property development sites marched to the US embassy Monday, sources said . ...
Garment strikers march on despite ban
About 300 workers continued protesting at the Master and Frank garment factory yesterday, rejecting a Kandal Provincial Court injunction ordering them back to work within 48 hours. After the company promised to consider workers’ demands that it reinstate fired union members, workers cancelled their plans to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2012122860510/National/garment-strikers-march-on-despite-ban.html
March a victory of another sort
While the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s continued push for an investigation into election irregularities may at times feel quixotic, the fact that the opposition was able to hold a peaceful march yesterday without incident represents a perhaps equally significant victory for freedom of assembly. The Ministry ...
Shane Worrell, P.2
http://www.phnompenhpost.com
Still No Agreement Over Opposition Marches
A meeting between representatives of the CNRP and Phnom Penh City Hall officials Monday failed to produce an agreement over the opposition party’s plans to march throughout the city during its three consecutive days of demonstrations starting Wednesday. City Hall officials last week decreed that the ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-no-agreement-over-opposition-marches-45629/
March to PM’s house halted
Representatives of more than 400 families who watched as their homes were burned during an eviction this month in Kratie’s Snuol district were blocked by authorities yesterday as they attempted to take their grievance to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s doorstep. Though tensions initially ran high, the ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/march-pm%E2%80%99s-house-halted
Environment Day march to defy ban
A youth group plans to march in support of World Environment Day today, despite being told not to by municipal authorities. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-day-march-defy-ban
Garment workers march for higher wages
More than 1,000 garment workers gathered in Phnom Penh and marched through the city center Sunday, demanding a “decent wage” from their factories, the largest garment-sector demonstration in the capital since military police fatally suppressed a protest for higher wages in January. ...
Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-march-in-push-for-higher-wages-69635/
Hundreds march against Australia refugee deal
Hundreds of monks and activists marched through Phnom Penh on Friday calling for the cancellation of an agreement signed last month that could see refugees who sought asylum in Australia resettled in Cambodia. Opposition politicians and human rights advocates in both countries have slammed the ...
Khuon Narim and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-march-against-australia-refugee-deal-70273/
Oryza March 2015 rice market review
The Oryza White Rice Index (WRI), a weighted average of global white rice export quotes, ended the month of March at about $413 per ton, down about $7 per ton from a month ago and down about $41 per ton from a year ago. Global ...
Oryza News Staff
http://bit.ly/1yfcJmT
Activists, rights worker detained before March
Three activists from the environmental NGO Mother Nature and a human rights monitor were detained in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district for about three hours Thursday after City Hall deemed a planned march to the National Assembly illegal. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/environmental-activists-rights-worker-detained-before-march-86603/
Striking garment workers march to ministry
About 100 striking workers from a Phnom Penh garment factory yesterday delivered a letter to the Ministry of Labour, asking for intervention in their industrial dispute. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/striking-garment-workers-march-ministry
Prime Minister Hun Sen signs off a sub-degree on the new Traffic Law
Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off a sub-degree for penalties on those who commit the road offenses such as speeding and drunk driving. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-signs-off-a-sub-degree-on-the-new-traffic-law-8797
Prey Long march ends, villagers still resolute
After walking and camping in the jungle for more than a week, Tha Sros and hundreds of other villagers finally reached the winding red dirt road that lead to the rubber plantation of Vietnamese-owned CRCK company, which has cleared a vast 6,000-hectare swathe out of ...
R’kiri Villagers to March Without Permission
Rights group Adhoc said yesterday that a large-scale march in Ratanakkiri province involving hundreds of ethnic minority villagers caught in land disputes would go on as planned later this month despite the government’s refusal to approve the march. The provincial coordinator for Adhoc, Pen Bonnar, said ...
Cambodia to conduct population census in March
Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.S. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ...
Xinhua
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137389562.htm
Activists request to march on ACU HQ
Land rights activists from 10 communities in the capital yesterday submitted a request to City Hall requesting permission to march to the Anti-Corruption Unit’s headquarters and deliver a petition in support of human rights activists jailed this week. ...
Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-request-march-acu-hq
Borei Keila, Boeung Kak march on embassies
More than 60 people yesterday rallied at the National Assembly, the UN Human Rights Office, the Danish Embassy and the German Embassy as part of a petition campaign to seek the release of two jailed women from the Boeung Kak and Borei Keila communities. Villagers and ...