At least eight NagaWorld workers were released from prison Monday night, according to local rights groups, hours after letters from them requesting bail were made public.
Eight jailed NagaWorld workers, including union leader Chhim Sithar, sent letters to the Labor Ministry asking its intervention to get them bail and called for their colleagues to suspend the strike to enable negotiations, according to the ministry.
The Southern Cardamom National Park received a mob of nearly 300 people Sunday morning, arriving on “uncountable” motorbikes and tuk-tuks and armed with axes and hoes to cut down trees, according to police.
The wife of a Phnom Penh deputy prosecutor has filed a police complaint alleging domestic violence, saying he had beat her and aimed a pistol at the side of her head.
A small community kindergarten in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district is run by a local teacher who wants to give her students a chance to be prepared for primary school.
Military police shot Pov Saroath in the spine at a land protest in 2019. Doctors initially left open the possibility of recovery, but last year he was told he would never walk again. Meanwhile, last June, soldiers shot land disputant Mom Chantha. He is now more than $1,000 in medical debt.
China holds all the cards in the Mekong and bringing it into a regional framework would help secure the future of the river, writes Oxford University researcher Kenneth Stiller.
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