May 21, 2012
- Villagers detained during a bloody crackdown in Kratie province...
Villagers are forced to leave Pro Ma village, in Kratie province’s Chhlong district last week, during a military-led eviction which resulted in the killing of a 14-year-old girl. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post - Femal union leaders in the garment industry – where women constitute 90 per cent of the work force – are effective at bargaining for better working conditions, but their voices...
Garment workers make athletic apparel at a factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district last year. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post - A garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday denied hiring a group of 10 “gangsters” to beat...
About 1,500 workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s SL1 and SL2 factories in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district march to the Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post - Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blamed soaring food prices on fuel prices set by oil cartels like...
Women buy meat at a market in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Prime Minister Hun Sen blamed rising food prices on high fuel prices during a speech yesterday. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post - In recent years, Cambodia has enjoyed impressive growth in its economy and agricultural productivity, a reduction in poverty rates, and successes in the social-health sectors....
Women and children wait to see a doctor at the Preyvihear Health Centre, in Kampong Speu’s Chamkah Dong village. Photograph: WHO CAMBODIA
May 20, 2012
- Another massive crackdown on Taiwanese and Chinese nationals accused of operating a Phnom Penh-based international extortion ring – the third in less than a year –...
Taiwanese and Chinese nationals accused of running an international extortion ring were arrested over the weekend in the capital. Photograph: supplied - A study the Lao government has used to claim the Xayaburi dam would be harmless if redesigned has been criticised for not addressing concerns about the project’s effect on fish in the Lower Mekong...
A road leading to the proposed dam site in Xayaburi province, Laos, was constructed last year. Photograph: Bangkok post - After high-profile campaign drives through the capital on Friday, Cambodia’s competing political parties took their crusade to the commune level over the weekend.
Prince Norodom Ranariddh campaigned in Prey Veng province yesterday for his party, which shares his name. Photograph: supplied
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May 17, 2012
- About 4,000 workers from two garment factories protested in Phnom Penh yesterday for better working conditions – but bosses told them their 7.5...
Workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s SL1 and SL2 factories hold a strike yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post - Tens of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out of classrooms this month and take jobs working as officials in commune elections, campaigning for which begins today, says...
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station at the base of the Preah Vihear temple in July 2008. Photograph: Reuters/Phnom Penh Post