Population and censuses

Recruiter, aggrieved recruits strike a deal

During negotiations yesterday, allegedly defrauded workers in Kampong Thom and a recruitment agency hammered out a deal that saw limited compensation delivered to the aggrieved would-be migrants. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/recruiter-aggrieved-recruits-strike-deal

Thai army says it’s too early to lay blame for loggers’ deaths

Thailand’s army has asked Cambodia “not to jump [to] the conclusion” that its soldiers were to blame for the deaths of three Cambodian loggers who were shot dead earlier this month while searching for rosewood across the border, according to Thai media. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thai-army-says-its-too-early-to-lay-blame-for-loggers-deaths-78272/

Recruiter, aggrieved recruits strike a deal

During negotiations yesterday, allegedly defrauded workers in Kampong Thom and a recruitment agency hammered out a deal that saw limited compensation delivered to the aggrieved would-be migrants. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/recruiter-aggrieved-recruits-strike-deal

Trafficking victims eye homeland

A woman lured into marriage in China and a group of men forced to work on a Thai fishing boat in Indonesia are the latest Cambodians rescued after being trafficked abroad. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/trafficking-victims-eye-homeland

Government standing by decision to not renew activist’s visa

The Ministry of Interior on Wednesday said it was standing by its decision to not renew the visa of outspoken environmental activist Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson in the face of mounting pressure from fellow activists, NGOs, unions, students and monks—even opposition leader Sam Rainsy—to reverse course. ...

Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-standing-by-decision-to-not-renew-activists-visa-78270/

Labour Ministry vows to investigate recruiter

Responding to parliament’s order to investigate allegations against a recruitment agency with a record of mistreating its workers, the Ministry of Labour dispatched a team today to meet with a group of defrauded labourers. ...

Pech Sotheary and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/labour-ministry-vows-investigate-recruiter

Arrested Montagnard emerges after 12 days

A Montagnard asylum seeker who was arrested and deported earlier this month along with his wife and three children has returned to a heavily guarded home after being detained and interrogated for 12 days by Vietnamese authorities. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/arrested-montagnard-emerges-after-12-days

South Korea to double Cambodian migrant worker permits

The South Korean government will double the number of Cambodian migrant workers who are granted permits to take up employment in the country’s manufacturing, construction and agriculture sectors each year, officials said on Monday. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korea-to-double-cambodian-migrant-worker-permits-78099/

Three new refugees file claims

Three Montagnards, including a 10-year-old girl, arrived yesterday morning at the government’s Refugee Department in Phnom Penh to process their asylum claims. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/three-new-refugees-file-claims

Labor Minister warns officials over foreign work permits

Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng on Thursday warned officials processing work permits for foreign workers to adhere strictly to all the relevant rules and regulations or risk an unwanted visit from the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). The government has recently started enforcing a longstanding but largely ignored ...

Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-minister-warns-officials-over-foreign-work-permits-77922/

PM acknowledges criticism of Refugee agreement

Days after the International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced it would help resettle Australia’s refugees currently being held on the Pacific island nation of Nauru in Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday acknowledged criticism of the deal at home and abroad. ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-acknowledges-criticism-of-refugee-agreement-78764/

Thailand undecided over fate of Cambodian migrant workers

Thailand has still not decided what will happen to the 738,000 Cambodian migrant workers currently living in the country on temporary work permits when those documents expire at the end of March, an official from the Thai Labor Ministry said Wednesday. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-undecided-over-fate-of-cambodian-migrant-workers-77407/

Without citizenship, Vietnamese remain adrift

Though they live in floating houses moored to the banks of the Tonle Sap river, few of the nearly 2,500 ethnic Vietnamese villagers here can truly call Cambodia home. Thousands built floating homes on the Tonle Sap, a cheaper and more attainable alternative to settling ...

Chris Mueller and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/without-citizenship-vietnamese-remain-adrift-77344/

Loggers held in Thailand sent home after 1 year

Three Cambodian men who were arrested in Thailand more than a year ago after venturing across the border to illegally log rosewood were on Monday released from prison and sent back home, border officials said. You Sothearith, chief of the immigration police at the checkpoint, ...

Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/loggers-held-in-thailand-sent-home-after-1-year-77264/

Rights group presses Cambodia to end persecution of montagnards

A rights group has asked the Cambodian government to stop harassing Christian Montagnards from Vietnam who are seeking refugee status in the country following the arrest of a family of five Montagnards in a northeastern province. ...

RFA Khmer News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/montagnard-family-arrested-02022015144411.html

Monks, migrants came into Thailand ‘illegally’

Thai officials sent 64 migrant workers and seven monks back to Cambodia yesterday, saying the Cambodia nationals had entered the country without proper authorisation. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-migrants-came-thailand-illegally

Dozens of maids still missing in Malaysia, rights group says

Rights group Adhoc on Tuesday urged the government to work harder to help Cambodian domestic workers still suffering abuse from their employers in Malaysia or from the Cambodian recruitment agencies that sent them there, including 63 women the organization says have effectively disappeared. At a press ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dozens-of-maids-still-missing-in-malaysia-rights-group-says-76817/

Officials to meet about census findings

The Interior Ministry’s immigration department will on Wednesday report the findings of a nationwide census of foreigners that began in August, an immigration official said Monday. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-to-meet-about-census-findings-76415/

Officials to return from Nauru Refugee Center Monday

A government delegation that traveled to the South Pacific island nation of Nauru last week to study the possibility of resettling in Cambodia some of the refugees Australia is currently holding there will return to Phnom Penh on Monday, a government official said. ...

Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-to-return-from%E2%80%88nauru-refugee-center-monday-76357/

Fishermen repatriated after ordeal

On Friday, 13 Cambodians were repatriated after months of gruelling work trapped aboard Malaysian fishing trawlers, according to rights groups that helped with the returns. ...

Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fishermen-repatriated-after-ordeal

Nine Vietnamese arrested in Battambang census raids

Nine Vietnamese nationals found to be living in Cambodia illegally were arrested at furniture-making workshops in Battambang City on Tuesday as the national immigration census nears its end, a police official said Wednesday. ...

Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nine-vietnamese-arrested-in-battambang-census-raids-76187/

PMs talk migration, statues

The shooting of a Cambodian woman by Thai soldiers was left off the agenda during recent talks between Cambodia and Thailand’s prime ministers, which instead focused on issuing migrants passports and the ownership of ancient treasures. Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart General Prayuth ...

Sen David and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pms-talk-migration-statues

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