Mu Sochua, opposition CNRP MP, made yet another attempt to reach Freedom Place, sealed off from the public since early January after the violent crackdown on striking workers and a series of CNRP mass demonstrations following the July 2013 elections. She was yet again prevented from doing so by the police… Not far from there, […]
The strike at Ocean garment factory, owned by Bangladeshi capital, has not come to an end. For a suspension time of two months due to a lack of orders, the workers were paid 15$ instead of their normal salary. The workers are afraid that the factory will close down and leave them stranded without severance […]
On the day an official Rolls Royce car dealer opened shop in Phnom Penh (basic model at least 400,000$s) people bike in the rain. Who will get stuck in the traffic jam? Not those riding a bicycle… And there will be no police to stop them… But then the police probably will not stop a […]
The opposition CNRP held a press conference following their attempt the previous day to reach Anlong Veng, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold. The presence of army units and groups of civilians on the access road from Siem reap who threatened to block access to the CNRP convoy were deemed menacing enough to cancel a planned […]
A small group of 8 members of a youth group gathered in front of the barbed wire fence at Freedom Park, requesting that its access would be given back to the public. The park, which was a place designated by the authorities for demonstrations, was closed early January after a violent crackdown on a worker’s […]
A majority of the more than 2000 workers of the Ocean garment factory are on a strike since several days to demand half of their 100$ salary instead of the 15$ they are getting for a two months suspension because of a lack of orders. Ocean garment factory is a 100% Bangladeshi investment… This is […]
Does running after 2 rabbits on World Environment Day make sense?.. Some 400 activists gathered near the Russian Embassy to celebrate World Environment Day. They planned to march to the nearby Ministry of Environment but were stopped by the police doing so. Only a delegation of 10 was allowed. At the same time about 800 […]
Because of a factual error, this post has been edited… In what some consider yet another administrative error back in 1949, when granting more autonomy to its Indochinese colonies, the French administration decided that Kampuchea Krom would be part of Vietnam, without taking into account that a majority 20 to 30% of the people living […]