It’s been 14 days the opposition CNRP marches in the streets of Phnom Penh to oust Prime Minister from power. It was supposed to last 8 days only. But as the CNRP stated ‘We are flexible’, and as fear of the authorities seems to have disappeared, there is no reason not to go on. Tomorrow […]
The roadblock in front of the Ministry of Labour was kept all through the day by workers striking for a salary rise. Another roadblock, in front of the Special Economic Zone in Kambol, some 19 km outside of Phnom Penh, was set up by striking workers after they were pushed back by riot police when […]
More and more factory workers seem to join the protest. ‘Hun Sen must go’ is heard less than ‘We want 160$’. A group of a couple of thousand workers on their way to Freedom Place blocked Russian Boulevard at the Ministry of Labour to demand a salary rise of 80$. At the Special Economic Zone […]
The 8-day protest by the opposition CNRP with daily marches through the streets of Phnom Penh to demand Prime Minister Hun Sen resign following the July 2013 elections the CNRP claims to have won, seem to roll on now that an unfortunate announcement by the government of a salary rise of 15 $ instead of […]
The announcement by the government of a 15$ salary rise instead of an expected 80$ triggered a chain reaction of strikes in several garment factories. The CNRP happily surfs on that wave of discontent to push ahead with its wish, shared with a fair amount of Cambodians, to see Prime Minister Hun Sen, in power […]
The announcement by the government of a 15$ rise, bringing the salaries of factory workers to 95$ instead of the expected 160$, has stirred a fair amount of discontent amongst the workers, inciting many to start striking. The 400,000 workers being in fact the only potentially coherent opposition force thanks to the existence of worker’s […]
Cambodia might be on the eve of some big changes. Protests are popping all over the place and it becomes increasingly difficult to cover all of them. While the opposition CNRP held yet another motorcade in Phnom Penh with the continuous demand that Prime Minister Hun Sen step down, a group of monks from the […]
If yesterday’s march (see HERE) was the bigger picture, today it is back to the smaller picture… Former Boeung Kak lake residents were protesting in front of the Municipality, supported by a delegation of human rights activist buddhist monks, members of the Independent Monks Network. UPDATED: on Dec. 24th with two more photographs from Dec. […]