Arrests Do Not Follow Rising Profile of Acid Crime
Keo Savorn, 22, had no idea what awaited her two weeks ago as she left her Phnom Penh factory at lunch to buy sugar cane from vendors gathered outside. There, in broad daylight, a man came up and...
View ArticleFactory Strikes Gaining Momentum, Union Leaders Say
As the strikes sweeping Cambodia’s garment industry entered their second day yesterday, union leaders claimed that the number of people staying away from work had more than doubled overnight. According...
View ArticleFirst Day of Garment Worker Strike Passes Peacefully
Almost 70,000 garment workers went on strike across the country yesterday, as the first day of a week-long series of work stoppages passed relatively peacefully, union representatives said. Cambodian...
View ArticleUnions To Decide on Strikes Today
Union leaders appeared to be at odds yesterday over whether garment workers should go ahead with imminent strikes that would see around 80 factories close their doors for a week. Ath Thon, president of...
View ArticleSeven Tons of Cambodian-Made Fake Cosmetics Uncovered
Seven tons of counterfeit cosmetics were seized and four people were arrested yesterday during a raid on a house in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district, according to police. Between 15 and 17 different...
View ArticleE-mails Point to Collusion in Gov’t Censorship
Though they have denied it for weeks, Cambodia’s largest Internet service providers have apparently colluded with the government in censoring the Internet for political reasons. Via e-mail and...
View ArticleLabor Ministry Launches Investigation Into Injured Maid
The Labor Ministry yesterday said it had started an investigation into the alleged confinement of a 31-year old mother at a Phnom Penh recruitment agency where she broke her ankle and heel while trying...
View ArticleT&P No 2 in Fast-Growing Labor Agency Sector
Now under police investigation for the alleged illegal detention of trainees, the recruitment agency T&P Co sent nearly 3,000 women to Malaysia last year to work as maids, making it one of the...
View ArticleOZ Minerals Deal Was Windfall for Officials’ Kin
In buying out its partner in a Mondolkiri province gold mine in 2009, the Australian company OZ Minerals paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to people who are reportedly the family members of...
View ArticleSix Months Shaved from Sex Offender’s Sentence
Convicted Russian child sex abuser Stanislav Molodyakov, aka Alexander Trofimov, who had been serving an eight-year prison term for sexually abusing 17 girls, has won a six-month reduction in his...
View ArticleRubber and Acid, a Devastating Combination in Kompong Cham
Mat Aphimas’ arms are webbed together from her shoulders to her forearms with shiny scar tissue. Upon meeting guests she timidly hides beneath a small yellow towel wrapped around her forehead. And...
View ArticleAIDS Patients at Tuol Sambou Get Overdue Visitors
More than two months after the eviction of HIV/AIDS patients from Borei Keila, the men at the helms of both the National AIDS Authority and UNAIDS Cambodia toured the community’s much criticized...
View ArticleThe Beginning of The End
The official departure of the Vietnamese troops from the country in September 1989 initially meant little to the hundreds of thousands of Cambodians who were living in refugee camps in Thailand at the...
View ArticleRemembering the Vietnamese
Twenty years ago today, the last contingent of soldiers of the People’s Army of Vietnam officially left Cambodia, bringing to an end a decade-long occupation. On September 26, 1989, the last 26,000...
View ArticleExpatriate Games Foreign Footballers Feature Heavily in the Cambodian Premier...
You loved him or you hated him, with his upturned collar, ramrod posture and puffed-out chest. There were the sublime moments, when he elevated the crude art of football and tickled the affections of...
View ArticleLawyers Sought Sok An’s Help in Acid Attack Case
Lawyers for former Military Police Deputy Chief of Staff Chea Ratha, who successfully defended her in August against charges that she ordered a brutal acid attack on a relative of her estranged lover,...
View ArticleUS Filmmaker Oliver Stone In Focus
Legendary American filmmaker Oliver Stone spoke in Phnom Penh yesterday, decrying the “beast of fear” in current politics and urging students “to read history because without memory there is only the...
View ArticleTunnel For ‘Total Revolution’
Kompong Cham Air Base – With fear in his eyes, the RCAF general looked across the plastic table at our group and said we must be either mad, stupid or both. You cannot go into the tunnels, he assured....
View ArticleA ‘Malaysian Deal’ Paid For By Cambodia
In the run up to the arrival of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to Cambodia this week, the expectation of $1 billion in investment seemed an enticing prospect for Cambodia’s economy. The Malaysian...
View ArticleHun Sen Statue Removed From Anti-Corruption Unit Offices
Only hours after the Prime Minister’s cabinet asked public institutions not to display sculptures of government leaders-at around 1 am Friday-a crane hoisted the large cloth-veiled statue standing at...
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