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 - Nearly 100 Boeung Kak lake villagers took to city hall yesterday carrying mattresses, umbrellas and food to protest what they called government inaction on the long-standing land dispute over their eviction from the...
Boeung Kak lake residents protest at city hall yesterday. Photograph: Meng Kimlong/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
Only four days into the commune election campaigning period and complaints of campaign interference are already flowing, NEC legal department director Keo Phalla said yesterday.
Keo Phalla said that as of Sunday, the commune elections commission had received seven complaints, with two of those in Banteay Meanchey and one each in Kratie, Pursat, Svay Rieng, Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Speu.
Opposition Sam...- Despite recent efforts by the authorities to improve drainage systems around the capital, heavy flooding and swamped roads were the norm over the...
Phnom Penh residents wade through floodwaters near Phsar Kandal market following an afternoon of heavy rains earlier this month. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post
More than 60 families in Mondulkiri province’s Roveak village in Rayum commune are worried about their safety and that of their housing after authorities deployed forces to surround their village on Sunday following eviction orders from the government.
Bun Sokchea, 49, said that on Saturday, Koh Nhek district police burned down four four-by-five-metre houses, causing a three-year-old boy to cut his right leg on an exposed nail when he ran for his mother after seeing his house...
Two construction workers in Kratie province were dozing in their hammocks at a worksite this weekend when armed assailants fired 29 bullets and lobbed a grenade at them, seriously injuring one.
The attack took place a little after 10pm on Sunday in Snuol commune, according to Snuol district governor Eav Saphumi.
The governor said that the two targeted labourers, Chaem Veasna and Sean Veasna, are both 20 years old and part of a crew working on a road construction...- 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
A worker was slightly injured and more than US$100,000 in property destroyed yesterday in a fire at an oil factory in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district, police said.
Thach Phalla, Ang Snuol district deputy police chief, said the fire started at noon when some oil overflowed into a processing area and raged for about three hours.
Five machines, the production area and more than 30,000 litres of oil were torched in the blaze, which was eventually put out by Phnom...