Police put an end to gathering of farmers in Prey Veng
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Tue, 24 May 2016, by Niem Chheng Villagers talk to a police officer (centre) after a workshop on farmers’ rights was shut down in Prey Veng province yesterday. Photo supplied...
View ArticleScuffles between protesters, police on ‘Black Monday’
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Tue, 24 May 2016, by Lay Samean Activists take part in a candlelight vigil yesterday evening in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district to show support for Adhoc officials and an NEC...
View ArticleVictims summonsed three years after Wat Phnom crackdown
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Tue, 24 May 2016, by Lay Samean Si Heap, the mother of Boeung Kak activist Tep Vanny, is treated at Calmette Hospital in 2013 after she was shot in the head with a marble...
View ArticleNew Water Pumping Station is ‘70% Done’
Source: Phnom Penh Post| Wed, 25 May 2016, by Sen David Construction takes place on the Boeung Trabek pumping station in southern Phnom Penh yesterday. P Hong Menea Workers are labouring day and night...
View ArticleCommune Official Told to Halt Sale of Kandal Lake Bed
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Wed, 25 May 2016, by Mech Dara Machinery excavates soil from a plot of land in Kandal province earlier this month. Photo supplied Kandal’s Fisheries Administration halted a...
View ArticleAmnesty Mobilizes for Adhoc Five
Source: The Cambodia Daily | Wed, 25 May 2016, by Colin Meyn Amnesty International has designated four human rights officers and an election official who were jailed earlier this month as “prisoners of...
View ArticleViolent Encounter Recounted as Wat Phnom Victims Appear in Court
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Thu, 26 May 2016, by Shaun Turton and Lay Samean An activist holds up a board of photos yesterday at the Ministry of Interior where Boeung Kak community members were...
View ArticleAnother RCAF Truck Filled with Timber Seized
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Thu, 26 May 2016, by Mech Dara, Phak Seangly and Igor Kossov Authorities weigh illegal wood in front of a seized RCAF vehicle in Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district earlier...
View ArticleMore Land Declared ‘Protected’
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Thu, 26 May 2016, by Mech Dara and Igor Kossov A new protected area in Banteay Meanchey province was created by a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on May 23, the...
View ArticleDrought Relief Campaign Over: PM
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Thu, 26 May 2016, by Lay Samean and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon Authorities distribute water from a fire truck into buckets late last month in Banteay Meanchey province during...
View ArticleLocal Trash Disposal Poor: Study
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Fri, 27 May 2016, by Kong Meta Cintri workers shovel trash into a garbage truck in Phnom Penh last year. P Heng Chivoan Waste management services organised by local...
View ArticleSihanoukville Authorities Announce Sewage Crackdown
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Fri, 27 May 2016, by Igor Kossovand Bun Sengkong Tourists relax on a beach in the coastal province of Preah Sihanoukville, where the deputy governor has urged establishments...
View ArticleTruck Found 26 Tonnes over Legal Weight Limit
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Fri, 27 May 2016, by Phak Seangly Authorities inspect a truck at a weighing station in Prey Veng after it was found to be 26 tonnes over the legal limit. Photo supplied An...
View ArticleCouncil ups pressure on CPP ‘land grabber’
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Tue, 31 May 2016, by Niem Chheng CPP lawmaker Lok Hour appears at an event in 2013. Photo supplied The Council of Ministers on Friday sent a letter to the Ministry of Land...
View ArticleAuthorities block ‘Black Monday’ a fourth time
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Tue, 31 May 2016, by Khouth Sophak Chakrya A police officer stops motorists for wearing black earlier this month near Prey Sar Prison during Black Monday protests. PPha Lina...
View ArticlePagoda land decision draws protest
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Wed, 01 June 2016, by Pech Sotheary Villagers from Kandal’s Kien Svay district that are involved in a land dispute protest at the entrance to the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh...
View ArticleLocal official punched me, says Preah Vihear land disputant
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Wed, 1 June 2016, by Phak Seangly Villagers in Preah Vihear block Rui Feng bulldozers from clearing disputed land last month. Photo supplied The deputy governor of Preah...
View ArticleLand dispute ‘task force’ to be established in Ratanakkiri
Source: Phnom Penh Post |Thu, 2 June 2016, by Phak Seangly The senior minister in charge of special missions, Ly Thuch (centre), greets ethnic villagers on Tuesday in Ratanakkiri province during a...
View ArticlePower outages to hit Kandal, Phnom Penh
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Thu, 2 June 2016, by Lay Samean An EDC technician installs power lines in Phnom Penh last year. P Vireak Mai Electricity du Cambodge (EDC) will cut the power supply in some...
View ArticleSale of Kandal stream decried, and denied
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Thu, 2 June 2016, by Niem Chheng People in Kandal province protest the alleged sale of land containing a stream late last month. Photo supplied Hundreds of residents in two...
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