Rann Reuy and May Titthara
SIEM REAP PROVINCE
AROUND 50 military and civilian police officers and Environment Department workers destroyed at least 100 homes on contested land in Oddar Meanchey province Tuesday morning, dismantling some structures and burning others to the ground, officials and rights workers said.
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Contacts:
World Bank, Phnom Penh:
Bou Saroeun (855) 23-217-301
sbou@worldbank.org
Australian Embassy, Phnom Penh:
Lachlan Pontifex (855) 12-900-911
lachlan.pontifex@ausaid.gov.au
Phnom Penh, August 4, 2009 – Today the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the World Bank signed a US$13 million agreement to support Cambodia’s poorest and most vulnerable people by strengthening food security and social safety nets.
The World Bank has approved the Smallholder Agriculture and Social Protection Development Policy Operation to support the efforts of the Government of Cambodia to mitigate the combined impacts of the global food price and economic crises. The program aims to boost food security for poor households and expand safety net support. Read more
LICADHO deplores the authorities’ renewed campaign to unlawfully arrest homeless persons, beggars, sex workers and other “undesirables” from the streets of Phnom Penh. In recent days, such arrests have led to women and children being sent to stay in a government social affairs center whose staff include alleged rapists and murderers, and to sex workers who have HIV/AIDS being detained at an NGO shelter where they were denied their life-sustaining antiretroviral medicines.
“Once again, the government is treating poor people who live and work on the streets as though they are criminals,” said LICADHO director Naly Pilorge. “This has nothing with to do with actually trying to help these people – it is simply intended to drive them off the streets in order to ‘beautify’ the city.”
Over the past month, dozens of people have been arbitrarily arrested from the streets, particularly in Daun Penh district along the riverside and around Wat Phnom, in night-time sweeps by district security guards or police. Read more
July 16, 2009— Development Partners are calling upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to stop forced evictions from disputed areas in Phnom Penh and elsewhere in the country until a fair and transparent mechanism for resolving land disputes is put in place and a comprehensive resettlement policy is developed.
Development Partners recognize that land issues are an ongoing challenge to development in Cambodia and urge the Government to adopt fair and transparent systems for land titling, including in urban areas, which recognize and protect the equal rights of all citizens. Development Partners stand ready to support the establishment of national policy guidelines which would ensure that evictions and resettlement follow due legal process and provide just compensation to affected individuals. Read more
The sharp price increases in the world oil market in 2007 and 2008 took everyone by surprise. And just as some oil analysts were forecasting US$200 a barrel or even higher, the oil price collapsed in the last four months of 2008. The speed at which the price changes on the world market were transmitted to retail prices became the subject of much debate. Consumers the world over argued that something was not right with the way their petroleum markets were functioning, benefitting oil companies and harming consumers. What determines these prices? This briefing note provides an overview of the petroleum product supply chain and factors contributing to retail prices. Read more
By Yun Samean
The National Assembly on Monday voted to strip the parliamentary immunity of Sam Rainsy Party lawmakers Mu Sochua and Ho Vann during a closed-door session, opening the two opposition leaders to prosecution in law suits filed against them at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
Ninety of the 111 lawmakers present voted by a show of hands to take away Ms Cochua’s immunity, and 91 voted in favor of stripping Ho Vann’s immunity, according to senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap. Under the Constitution, a two-thirds vote of the Assembly – or 82 lawmakers – is needed to remove a parliamentarian’s immunity. The ruling CPP ALONE Currently has 90 members in the Assembly.
Security was tight for Monday’s session, with clusters of anti-riot police stationed around the Assembly and military police positioned at regular intervals many blocks from the compound. With the session being held behind closed doors, journalists, foreign diplomats and NGO representatives were barred from viewing the debate – a decision that was decried by representatives of the US, French, British, and German embassies. Read more
62 refugees arrested by Thai police on June 12 say they are holding discussions with UN officials and Thai authorities in order to avoid deportation.
KHMER Krom detainees languishing in a Thai detention centre since their arrest last week say they have held meetings with officials from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and Thai immigration officials in an attempt to avoid being deported back to Cambodia.
Photo by: HENG CHIVOAN Khmer Krom monks at a ceremony on June 4, marking 60 years since the loss of Cambodia's southern territories to Vietnam.
On June 12, Thai authorities arrested 62 Khmer Krom who claim they were seeking political asylum after fleeing persecution in southern Vietnam.
“At the moment, UNHCR is interviewing Khmer Krom people who are detained at the Thai immigration centre,” said Soeun Savang, 50, one of the detainees captured in the June 12 sweeps. Read more
Khmer Dressing
This is the kinds of Khmer dressing. You are always seen them with these clothing in wedding ceremony or party…etc. Most of such clothing is designed and made by Cambodian tailors.
By Chhorn Chansy And Bethany Lindsay.
After more than a week of anti-NGO comedy sketches broadcast on national television, many Phnom Penh residents said Monday that they wished their much loved performer would keep politics out of comedy.
The most recent program, performed by the Krem comedy troupe and aired for the first time Saturday on Bayon TV, portrayed wealthy NGO workers and journalists staging fake evictions and scenes of poverty to dupe their foreign donors, who were portrayed as womanizing lushes who never leave their fancy hotel rooms during visits to Cambodia. Read more
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