Social development

Villagers nab logging truck

In the latest case involving illegal logging in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom district, two indigenous communities filed a lawsuit against three unidentified illegal loggers after confiscating a truck laden with luxury wood on Saturday, a rights monitor and villagers said yesterday. About 50 villagers turned over the ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-nab-logging-truck

Rights Group Launches Petition for Release of 21 Demonstrators

The Asian Human Rights Commission has launched an online petition to pressure the Cambodian government to release 21 union activists and workers charged in connection with labor protests last month. Twenty-three workers were arrested in a violent crackdown by government police and security forces early January, ...

Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/rights-group-launches-petition-for-release-of-21-demonstrators/1853054.html

Five arrested for trying to traffic women to China

Anti-human trafficking police in Phnom Penh arrested three Cambodians and two Chinese nationals after the group tried to traffic two young women—who had been promised wealthy husbands—to work as prostitutes in China, police said Monday. Keo Thea, chief of the municipal anti-human trafficking police, said the ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/five-arrested-for-trying-to-traffic-women-to-china-52479/

Irrawaddy dolphin found dead

Villagers along the Mekong river found a dead freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin floating with the current yesterday near Prek Chik village in Kratie province’s Prek Presap district. Fishery officials said the male dolphin weighs about 100kg. Sean Kin, a fishery official in Kratie province, said his team took ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/irrawaddy-dolphin-found-dead

Two Borei Keila Women in Hospital From Clash

Two residents of the Borei Keila community remained hospitalized Sunday after a Valentine’s Day clash with authorities on Friday that left 19 people injured, a community representative said. Although most of the 19 were only slightly injured, two women were more severely hurt and are still ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-borei-keila-women-in-hospital-from-clash-52339/

Detainee speaks out online

As lawyers for 21 defendants denied bail by the Court of Appeal last week wait for the Supreme Court to respond to their appeals, the most high-profile of the detainees is speaking out via social media. On Friday night, Prak Sovannary, wife of Vorn Pov – ...

Sean Teehan and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/detainee-speaks-out-online

Preah Vihear villagers continue to protest

More than 30 families continued to demonstrate in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Friday and Saturday over what they say is the illegal clearing of land by a Chinese company, villagers said Sunday. The families accuse Rui Feng (Cambodia) International of clearing 500 hectares of ...

Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-vihear-villagers-continue-to-protest-52347/

Authority warns as unionists ready to convince 100,000 workers to join nationwide strike

100,000 leaflets would be printed and distributed next week to garment workers in the country to urge them to join nationwide strike to put pressure on the government and the Cambodian courts to release 21 workers in jail and to increase the minimum wage of ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NWQ1OTJjNzNiMWI

US universities jointly hold largest-ever education fair in Cambodia

More than 30 U.S. colleges and universities jointly organized an education exhibition here Saturday, aiming to promote education ties between the two countries. “The fair is the largest-ever event directly promoting U.S. higher education opportunities to Cambodian students,” said a press statement from the U.S. ...

Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=200736

Hundreds of students join Valentine’s day blood drive

The National Blood Transfusion Center (NBTC) on Friday took Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to call on students to “show love” by donating blood, a drive that collected 400 units of blood. “On [Valentine’s Day] we are all willing to show our love by donating blood ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hundreds-of-students-join-valentines-day-blood-drive-52320/

Group says police officer ordered boy shot

A local police official in Banteay Meanchey province allegedly ordered a villager to shoot a 16-year-old boy with an assault rifle during a crackdown on illegal fishing on Tuesday, a rights group said Friday. The boy, Eang Sok, who was hit by bullets in both feet, ...

Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/group-says-police-officer-ordered-boy-shot-52311/

Six injured as police, Borei Keila villagers clash

At least six people were injured on Friday when a small group of Borei Keila villagers were evicted from the grounds of an unfinished building in Phnom Penh that they began occupying this week in a bid to draw attention to a years-long fight for ...

Khuon Narim and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/six-injured-as-police-borei-keila-villagers-clash-52325/

During ‘Free the 23’ Protests, Where Was CNRP?

Late last month, protesters calling for the release of 23 imprisoned workers and activists clashed with district security guards on Phnom Penh’s Norodom Boulevard. Batons, rocks and punches were thrown, and a handful of people on both sides were left bruised and bloodied. Later that week, opposition ...

Colin Meyn and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/during-free-the-23-protests-where-was-cnrp-52228/

Clarification sought on government’s fraught NGO Law

A request has been sent to the government’s Human Rights Committee and the interior and foreign affairs ministries seeking clarification on the status and whereabouts of a draft law that will govern associations and non-governmental organizations, asking to see the latest version of the law ...

Phorn Bopha and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/clarification-sought-on-governments-fraught-ngo-law-52238/

Kratie villagers block road after officials torch homes

Police and military police in Kratie province’s Snuol district on Wednesday burned to the ground 56 homes they said were on protected land, causing displaced villagers to block National Road 76 in protest for four hours, officials said. Snuol district Governor Kong Kimny said Thursday that ...

Aun Pheap and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kratie-villagers-block-road-after-officials-torch-homes-52232/

Cambodia: nine opposition trade unions warn of mass strike

Cambodia’s nine opposition-aligned trade unions warned on Wednesday that they will lead a large-scale strike in eight days from March 12 if their demands are not met, reports Vietnam News Agency (VNA). The unions have demanded that the court free 21 detained protesters and the government ...

BERNAMA News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1014252

Plot thickens for evictees

Scores of families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community tore down a corrugated metal fence and took up temporary residence in developer Phan Imex’s unfinished Building 9 as anger over smaller-than-promised relocation plots boiled over yesterday morning. The occupation began after local and municipal authorities came ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plot-thickens-evictees

Villagers in limbo as dam starts

Construction at the controversial Lower Sesan II dam site in Stung Treng province has already begun, according to villagers, who will today petition several ministries, the Chinese embassy and the headquarters of the Royal Group to open negotiations with them. According to the villagers, who travelled ...

Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-limbo-dam-starts

Authorities Burn 60 Homes in Pursat Province

More than 60 wooden homes in Pursat province were burned to the ground Wednesday by officials in Veal Veng district, who claimed that the owners were living on state land, rights group Licadho said. “On Wednesday morning, police, military police, RCAF soldiers and the deputy provincial ...

Ben Sokhean and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-burn-60-homes-in-pursat-province-52093/

Borei Keila residents ‘occupy’ unfinished apartment block

Residents embroiled in a long-running land dispute in the Borei Keila area of Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district on Wednesday tore down three metal fences and occupied an unfinished apartment block at the site. The fences were felled with axes by irate residents, who took the ...

Khuon Narim and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/borei-keila-residents-occupy-unfinished-apartment-block-52083/

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