Almost 700 villagers from Kompong Speu province protested outside the Land Management Ministry on Thursday to demand more than the $500 in compensation they were offered for losing several hectares of land each to a ruling party senator’s sugarcane plantation.
Five garment factory workers had their hands amputated after the flatbed truck they were travelling in to work crashed into the side of an oncoming vehicle in Kompong Speu province’s Oudong district on Thursday morning.
NGOs will be scrutinized as part of the government’s newly announced anti-money laundering policy.
About 900 sacked workers from the W&D garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district returned to work on Friday, ending an almost three-month labor dispute after Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly demanded their reinstatement.
Criticizing legal attacks against NGOs and independent media and the “one-party election” held last year, international nonprofit Civicus rated civil society in Cambodia as “repressed” in its latest State of Civil Society annual report.
Cambodia has signed more than $11 billion in concessional loans as of the end of 2018 – 41 percent coming from China – the Finance Ministry reported Tuesday.
Labeled “traitors” by opposition leaders, nine former members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) walked away from the beleaguered opposition party to have their ban on political activities lifted by the government.
The secretary-general of the Bodybuilding Federation has publicly announced his resignation with a message criticizing the body’s president, as a string of athletes leave the sport over abruptly reduced cash incentives.
The wishes of the international community are not Cambodian government policy, Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated in a speech on Tuesday in response to the EU’s ongoing criticism of last year’s national election.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned former opposition leader Sam Rainsy not to attempt to re-enter Cambodian territory via an overland crossing, suggesting that usual rules against using machine guns on civilians may not apply to him.
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