February 22, 2012
The clearing of land for a Ratanakkiri rubber plantation had been frozen after more than 300 Tumpoun ethnic minority villagers captured a quartet of company security guards and another staffer, tied them up and held them hostage on Tuesday, company officials said yesterday.
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Another eight fishermen will be repatriated today after being saved from forced labour on fishing boats in Indonesia, according to a press release issued yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The statement said the men had been saved in Indonesia’s Maluku province by a co-ordinated action of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the International Organisation for Migration and Indonesian authorities.
Seven Cambodians who were repatriated from Indonesia on February 7...
Speculation is bubbling in Bavet town over the identity of the man who shot three people protesting outside a shoe factory on Monday, with eyewitnesses, police and villagers suggesting blame lies with town officials.
Vireak Mai/Phnom Penh PostBuot Chinda receives treatment at...
The lawyer for form-er Pursat provincial prosecutor Top Chan Sereyvuth, convicted in May on corruption charges, told an Appeal Court hearing yesterday the wrong man was behind bars and asked for a forestry official to be investigated.
Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh PostTop Chan Sereyvuth (...
The curse of Cambodia’s 2011 floods continues for those most affected, as they fall deeper into debt from unsustainable cyclical debt practices, a consortium of international NGOs said yesterday.
The consortium of Care, Oxfam, Pact and Catholic Relief Services released the results of their January survey yesterday which show that flood-affected poor are now “drowning in debt”, coalition representatives said.
Bill Penington of Care said the cycle of debt is...
A new lizard species has been found in Ratanakkiri’s Veun Sai-Siem Pang Conservation Area, scientists will announce today.
The discovery marks the third species...
Photo SuppliedA newly discovered species of skink crawls on a rock in Ratanakkiri province in 2010.
Opposition Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Chan Cheng quietly returned to Cambodia yesterday after fleeing to France more than two months ago following his implication in aiding and abetting a prison escape.
Chan Cheng, who had his parliamentary immunity stripped in December last year over the allegations, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Fellow SRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang confirmed he had arrived in Cambodia yesterday morning, but did not want to talk with...
Child labour was draining the Kingdom’s brainpower and adversely affecting 750,000 of its children, officials at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday.
Hong Menea/Phnom Penh PostSol Saly, 16, processes fish into prahok along the Tonle Sap river in Phnom...
A provincial co-ordinator for rights group Adhoc was yesterday summonsed to Banteay Meanchey provincial court for questioning on defamation charges, a day after a letter surfaced indicating that the Prime Minister’s brother had attempted to stall a sexual harassment suit in which the co-ordinator had been assisting, an Adhoc representative said.
In November, provincial co-ordinator Soum Chankea helped waitress Hi Theavy to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cambodian Mine...
Gory pictures of traffic accident victims and those who have suffered from violent crimes were in bad taste and must no longer grace the pages of Cambodian newspapers, the Information Minister said in a letter yesterday.
Khieu Kanharith banned the use of such graphic images in a directive that praised newspapers that searched for good or unusual information but lamented those that irresponsibly exploited people’s misery.
“There are still some media [outlets] that do...