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Work-related deaths, injuries rose in 2012
- 14 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Law and judiciary / Social development
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The number of officially recorded workplace deaths in Cambodia increased by more than 25 per cent from 2011 to 2012, while the vast majority of those injured at work were women, National Social Security Fund figures released yesterday reveal. A total of 59 people were reported ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061466277/National/work-related-deaths-injuries-rose-in-2012.html
New claim filed against Giant Ocean
- 11 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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A fresh complaint has been filed against a company already before the courts for allegedly running a human-trafficking racket that sent more than 150 Cambodians onto fishing boats as virtual slaves. More than 20 men who claim they were forced to work almost without sleep and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061166187/National/new-claim-filed-against-giant-ocean.html
Families Left Worse off After Railway Project
- 5 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Phnom Penh families being pushed to the city’s outskirts to make way for a $142.6 million railway renovation project funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are falling into debt and finding it harder to earn money and access healthcare according to a ...
Mekong Communities Tell of Hardship From Hydropower Dams
- 4 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Land / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
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About 200 people from Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia affected by hydropower dam projects on the Mekong River and its tributaries gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday to share their experiences of how their lives have been adversely affected since the dams were constructed. Speaking at the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-communities-tell-of-hardship-from-hydropower-dams-28793/
Wing Star Widow in Limbo
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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- ACILS / American Center for International Labor Solidarity / ASICS / Bangladesh / ceiling collapse / collapse / compensation / Dave Welsh / Factory collapse / ILO / ILO conventions / International Labor Organization / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Kim Dany / labor / labor rights / labour / Labour unions / National Social Security Fund / NGOs / NSSF / NSSF Deputy Director / Royal Government / shoes / shoes factory / Sum Sophorn / Wing Star incident / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / worker rights
Government officials have suggested the widow of the man crushed to death last month at the Wing Star Shoes factory, a supplier to Asics, will still be denied compensation from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), a labour rights worker said yesterday. American Center for International ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366021/National/wing-star-widow-in-limbo.html
Airports operator looks to expand
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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- Airport / ASEAN / Asia / Cambodia Airports / cargo terminal / compensation / Emmanuel Menanteau / eviction / Export / France / import / Indonesia / International Civil Aviation Organisation / Myanmar / National Road 4 / Philippines / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Resettlement / runway / Sarah Thust / Siem Reap / terminal / tourist number / Vinci / Vinci Group / Vinci portfolio
While Cambodia Airports, of which France-based Vinci Group is major stakeholder, sees tourist numbers taking off, eviction issues are gnawing at the company’s image. Emmanuel Menanteau, chief executive of Cambodia Airports, talked to the Post’s Sarah Thust about the expansion plans. How many tourist arrivals do ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165965/CEO-Talk/airports-operator-looks-to-expand.html
Former Mfone Employees Protest for Severance Pay
- 29 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce
- bankrupt companies / bankruptcy / compensation / creditors / Kampot / Kampot Province / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Kompong Spue / Kompong Spue province / labor / labour / liquidation / Mfone / Mfone administrator Ouk Ry / Mfone creditors / mobile phone operator / Mobile Phones / Phnom Penh / protests / Severance pay / telecommunications / ThaiComp / ThaiComp PLC / wages / worker rights
More than 100 former employees of bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone traveled from three provinces yesterday to protest outside the firm’s shuttered office on Phnom Penh’s Monivong Boulevard demanding their severance pay. Sok Samphorn, an engineer who was employed by Mfone, said employees from Phnom Penh, ...
Land Battle Headed to Court
- 27 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Protected forest / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Investigator / Bakeo district / Bakeo District Governor / compensation / deforestation / Disputed Land / ethnic minority / ethnic Tampuon / Forest / forest clearance / forest clearing / Heng Bunthan / illegal logging / indegenous group / Laminh commune / Laminh Commune Chief / land conflict / Land dispute / Land rights / logging / Mean Promony / Pen Sophon / protected forest / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / Rattanakiri Provincial Court / Suo Village / Tampuon / villagers
Eight ethnic Tampuon villagers from Ratanakkiri’s Bakeo district will file a lawsuit at provincial court today alleging that more than 70 hectares of protected forest have been illegally cleared by a police official and six villagers from a neighbouring commune. Ting Kham Se, 52, of Laminh ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052765851/National/land-battle-headed-to-court.html
Family Accepts $9000 over Collapse Death
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- American Solidarity / American Solidarity Center director Dave Welsh / Bangladesh / compensation / construction / Dave Welsh / Factories / factory construction standards / Footwear / footwear factory / Garment Industry / garments / health and safety / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Kompong Spue / Kompong Spue province / labor / labour / shoes / Solidarity Center / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / workers rights
The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed at Kompong Spue province footwear factory lasts week has accepted 9,000 in compensation, and in return has agreed not file a complaint against the company, the deceased’s wife said yesterday. Rim Sarouen, 22, ...
Judge Denies Coercion Claim in Land Dispute Assault Case
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
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A father whose three children were badly beaten by employees of a rubber plantation has accused a Ratanakkiri Provincial Court judge of threatening to send two sons, aged 14 and 21, to jail unless they accept $1,000 in compensation and drop the assault complaint. Ry Saron ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judge-denies-coercion-claim-in-assault-case-26546/
Eviction Protestors Block Phnom Penh International Airport
- 23 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Phnom Penh
- Airports / aviation / Barack Obama / Boeng Kak / Boeung Kak / Borei Keila / Choam Cho commune / Civil Aviation State Secretariat Say Sokhan / compensation / construction / Eviction Protestors / evictions / forced evictions / house constructions / International Civil Aviation Organisation / land disputes / Land rights / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Police / property transactions / protests / Say Sokhan / Tmar Kaul village / Tourism / transport / US President Barack Obama
About 20 people protesting their pending eviction from their homes near Phnom Penh International Airport blocked people from leaving or entering the airport for about half an hour yesterday, before a large force of police broke up their protest. In July, authorities told 182 families ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eviction-protesters-block-phnom-penh-international-airport-26147/
Fear Remains as Factory Reopens
- 21 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- ASICS / Asics supplier / Building Safety Regulations / Chea Sotharyrith / compensation / Development Movement Union of Cambodia Labour / Electrical Safety Measures / electrical short circuit / Electrical System Safety Measures / Electricity / Factory collapse / factory working conditions / footwear factory / Garment factories / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia Secretary General Ken Loo / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia Secretary-general / garment sector / Garment Workers / GMAC / health and safety regulations / Hong Seng Lim / illegal construction / Ken Loo / Kim Dany / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / labor / labour / mass faintings / Rim Roeun / shoes / shoes factory / Wing Star Development Movement Union of Cambodia Labour President Hong Seng Lim / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes factory / workers
More than 20 people fainted yesterday at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province, where two workers were crushed to death in a ceiling collapse last Thursday. Workers and union officials said an electrical short-circuit scared workers returning for the first time since the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165744/National/fear-remains-as-factory-reopens.html
Homeowners petition ADB
- 21 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / ADB Country Director Eric Sidgwick / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / compensation / complaint / Compliance Review Panel / Debt / Inter-Ministerial Resettlement Committee / IRC / Luy Im / Ministry of Economy and Finance / National Assembly / NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / Nora Lindstrom / OSPF / Phnom Penh / Phum III. Phum / Project’s Grievance Redress Mechanism / railway / railway development / railway rehabilitation project / relocated families / Relocation / resettlement issues / Resettlement problem / Tapeang Anhchanh / Toul Sangke A
The occupants of 90 Phnom Penh households whose homes were partially or completely dismantled to make way for the Railway Rehabilitation Project partly funded by the ADB have demanded the bank offer them fair compensation. In a letter submitted to the Inter-Ministerial Resettlement Committee, the ADB, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165738/National/homeowners-petition-adb.html
Factory Dining Hall Collapses in Phnom Penh; 23 injured
- 21 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Clothes / Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Garments and textiles / Industries / Labor / Manufacturing / Phnom Penh
- ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / CNRP / Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union / Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union representative Seang Yon / commune chief Mao Rith / compensation / construction / construction standards / Factories / Factory collapse / factory working conditions / Gap / Garment factories / garment production / garment production chain / garment workers / garments / health and saftey / illegal building construction / Japanese aid / Japanese sports brand / Kampong Cham Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun / Katsumi Funakoshi / Kbal Koh commune / Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / labor / labour / Mao Rith / Meanchey District / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labor secretary of state Oum Mean / Ministry of Labour / Ministry of Labour secretary of state Oum Mean / Mu Sochua / Oum Mean / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh District Governor Kuoch Chamroeun / Production / production chain / safety building regulations / Seang Yon / Shoe factories / shoes / Top World Garment (Cambodia) Ltd. / U.S. / US / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / worker rights
The dining hall of a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district that supplies clothes to U.S. brand Gap collapsed into a pond Monday, injuring more than 20 workers who were eating lunch, workers and officials said. The hall, which is part of Top World Garment ...
‘Take it or leave it’
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity / ASICS / Asics supplier / But Rorn / Cambodia Defenders Project / Community Legal Education Center / compensation / Dave Welsh / Factory collapse / footwear factory / illegal construction / Kampong Speu Province / Kim Dany / Kong Pisei district / Manslaughter / Moeun Tola / neglect / negligence / Rim Roeun / shoes / shoes factory / Sim Srey Touch / Sok Sam Oeun / Sum Sophorn National Social Security Fund / Wing Star incident / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes factory
The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065719/National/take-it-or-leave-it.html
Factory Orders Staff Back to Work Amid Safety Concerns
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Labor
- American Center for International Labor Solidarity Country Manager David Welsh / ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / building permits / Calmette hospital / Community Legal Education Center / Community Legal Education Center labor program head Moeun Tola / Community Legal Education Centre / Community Legal Education Centre labour programme head Moeun Tola / compensation / construction / construction standards / David Welsh / Factories / Factory collapse / factory construction / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia chairman Van Sou Leng / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Im Chhun Lim / Japanese aid / Japanese sports brand ASICS / Katsumi Funakoshi / Kobe / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / Kompong Speu provincial construction department / Kompong Speu provincial construction department bureau chief Mam Narey / Kompong Speu provincial department of land management / Kong Pisei district / labor / labor rights / labour / labour rights / Ly Hour / Mam Narey / Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim / Ministry of Land Management / Moeun Tola / Phnom Penh / Shoe factories / shoes / Van Sou Leng / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory representative Ly Hour / worker conditions / worker rights
Employees at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Kompong Speu province where two workers were killed when one of the building’s floors collapsed on Thursday have been ordered back to work today, despite ongoing concerns from labor activists about the building’s safety. While conceding that some parts ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-orders-staff-back-to-work-amid-safety-concerns-25192/
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
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Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
World Bank’s Boeng Kak Failure Cited in UN Report
- 11 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Multilateral development assistance / Social development / World Bank
- Boeng Kak evictees / Boeng Kak neighborhood / Boeung Kak / Boeung Kak Lake / Bou Saroeun / compensation / forced eviction / Geneva / housing rights / Human Rights / illegal eviction / Land issues / Land rights / Land titles / land-titling program / land-titling project / loan freeze / loans / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Raquel Rolnik / U.N Human Rights Council in Geneva / U.N. Human Rights Council / U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank loan freeze
The U.N.’s expert on housing rights has cited the World Bank’s failure to help thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as a prime example of why the bank needs to make human rights a focus of its land sector programs worldwide. At ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-banks-boeng-kak-failure-cited-in-un-report-14120/
Villagers Pray to Spirit to Delay Dam Construction
- 1 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Energy / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Land / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
- compensation / fisheries / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam / Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam project / Mekong river / Mekong River tributaries / Ratanakiri / Ratanakiri province / Sesan district / Sesan river / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / tributary dams / tributary rivers / Water resources
More than 500 villagers from Stung Treng and Ratanakiri provinces held a traditional sacrificial ceremony yesterday, calling on a local spirit to help in postponing the construction of a 400-megawatt hydropower dam in Stung Treng’s Sesan district. Siek Megong, Srekor commune chief, said the villages ...
Boeung Kak Evictees Ask City Hall For Better Compensation
- 1 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Gender / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Women in development
- Boeung Kak / Choeung Sopheap / compensation / deputy governor Khuong Sreng / Economy and Finanace Minister Keat Chhon / forced eveictions / Governor Kep Chuktema / Keat Chhon / Kep Chuktema / Khuong Sreng / land compensation / Land rights / Land titles / Lao Meng Khin / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / relocation sites / Shukaku / Shukaku Inc / Tep Vanny / Thailand
About 100 women forcibly evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak neighbourhood protested outside City Hall yesterday asking for upgrades to the compensation they accepted under duress to give up their homes. The women said they were representing 739 of the more than 3,000 families forced out ...
CPP Promises Oversight on Royal Group's Dam
- 20 February 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Renewable energy production
- Cheam Yeap / Chinese aid / compensation / CPP lawmaker / dam project / EIA / environmental groups / environmental impact assessment / Hydrolancang International Energy Co Ltd / hydropower / Infrastructure / Kbal Romeas / Kith Meng / Lower Sesan 2 dam / National Assembly / Opposition party / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Royal Group / Sesan rivers / Srekor / Srepok / Stung Treng Province
The government has promised to monitor the progress of local conglomerate Royal Group in its implementation of a $781 million dam project in Stung Treng province, that has been guaranteed by the government, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap said yesterday. Mr. Yeap said yesterday that the ...
Questions follow on heels of hydropower dam Sesan 2 vote
- 18 February 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Industries / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public health / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Tourism / Water resources
- Cheam Yeap / Chinese aid / compensation / dam / electricity prices / Energy Minister Suy Sem / EVN International / EVNI / Hydro Power Lower Sesan 2 company / Hydrolancang International / Hydrolancang International Energy / Hydrolancang International Energy Co Ltd / hydropower project / Kith Meng / Lower Sesan 2 dam / National Assembly / National Assembly President Cheam Yeap / Royal Group / Sesan district / Sesan river / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Suy Sem / tourism sector
Villagers near the Sesan River in Stung Treng province are a step closer to being forced to make way for a hydropower dam following a National Assembly vote on Friday, but they are no closer to learning the details of such a move, a community ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013021861415/National/questions-follow-on-heels-of-sesan-2-vote.html
Sesan Dam Law Approved
- 18 February 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Civil society / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Generation and distribution facilities / Human rights / Hydropower dams / Land / Law and judiciary / Protected areas / Protected forest / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
- Cambodia’s parliament / civil society groups / compensation / CPP / ecological and social impacts / Electricity / environment costs / environmental destruction / Environmental group / ethnic minority / fisheries / food security / HRP / Human Rights Party / hydropower dam / International Rivers / joint Reservoir / kratie / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Mekong / Mines and Energy / Minister of Industry / National Assembly / northeastern Cambodia / power company / protected forest / Sam Rainsy Party / Son Chhay / Srepok rivers / SRP / Stung Treng / Suy Sem
Cambodia’s parliament on Friday approved a law providing financial guarantees for the developers of a planned hydropower dam on a Mekong River tributary, despite opposition from civil society groups seeking to delay the project. Villagers campaigning against the Lower Sesan 2 dam in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung ...
Villagers Petition Against Dam
- 14 February 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Development policy and administration / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Law and judiciary / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
- ancestors / ancestral graves / Cambodia / Chhit Sam Ath / Chinese owners / compensation / construction / Development / draft law / Electricity / Environmental assessment studies / ethnic minority villagers / farms / food security / graveyards / houses / Hydroelectric Dam / International Rivers / Lawmakers / Lower Mekong Basin / Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam / Minister of Mines Industry and Energy / National Assembly / NGO Forum / parliament / power company / project developers / protected forest areas / rare fish / rivers / Sesan district / social impacts / Southeast Asia / Srekor commune / Strung Treng province / Suy Sem
Ethnic minority villagers expecting to be displaced by a proposed Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia are asking the country’s parliament not to approve a law providing financial guarantees for the project. Villagers living along three rivers that will be affected by the dam spoke ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-02142013163955.html