Yet another march by the SL Garment factory workers who are on a strike since the month of August for a rise in wages. It turned very ugly this morning. Some members of the riot police forces who stopped the demonstrators at the Stung Meanchey bridge opened fire with their handgun when trying to push […]
The UNESCO World Heritage site of Preah Vihear is the link… Today at 4:00PM (Phnom Penh time) the International Court of Justice will issue its verdict on the border issue between Thailand and Cambodia around the 11th century temple. Will the weaponry rattle again? Will everybody stay calm? The photographs from the previous tension are […]
So why did it take more than three years? This morning surveyors, appointed by the Phnom Penh Municipality, started measuring the surface of 32 houses which were not included in the 12,44 Ha promised by Prime Minister Hun Sen to the Boeung Kak lake community way back in August 2011, paving the way to a […]
Both the SL Garment factory and the Boeung Kak lake communities held a demonstration today. The first are locked into an endless conflict with their direction about wages and working conditions, the second are stuck into a relentless fight to see their fellow land rights activist Yorm Bopha, whom they consider unjustly imprisoned, walk free. […]