s hopes that prime minister Hun Sen may give in to some of their demands have not yet been realised No one can tell what the outcome will be of the crisis that has been simmering for months in Cambodia . Demonstrations in Phnom Penh have been banned since 3 January, the day after the authorities brutally crushed a protest movement led by garment workers and supported by the opposition. Five people...
Cambodia says it is seriously considering the request from Julie Bishop, which the Greens have branded a disgrace ...
s traffic-clogged roads Motorcycles, cars, tuk-tuks and the humble rickshaw dominate its traffic-clogged roads, but Phnom Penh has a new weapon in the fight against chronic congestion – its first public buses in more than a decade. Cambodia's transport system lags behind many of its south-east Asian neighbours, which long ago resorted to public vehicles to ease gridlocked roads in major cities. The...
s Day Nearly half of young Cambodian men are willing to force their partner into having sex this Valentine's Day, a study has found, stoking fears in a nation where perpetrators of sexual violence largely go unpunished. Of the 376 male respondents in the survey, 47.4% said they were prepared to have sexual intercourse with their female partner on Valentine's Day whether or not she was willing. The...
I will never get married and I will never get kids, because there is no point in being married if my husband is going to be killed; there is no point in having kids when I have seen entire families dying. I would rather stay the way I am'." Twenty years ago this April, Masereka, a Rwandan Tutsi who dreamed of becoming a nurse, watched neighbour turn on neighbour as the country's Hutu majority embarked...
Freddie Knoller, Sokphal Din and Sophie Masereka want the world to know what happened to them in the hope that others will be spared similar horrors Mustafa Khalili Sam Jones ...
s right that clothing brands call for an investigation. But there are many problems linked to the making of our everyday products, from unfair pay and dangerous working conditions to environmental destruction. To help prevent these, a range of solutions is needed. A first step is greater transparency about the impacts companies have. It's disappointing, therefore, that the UK government is trying to...
s largest export. And just last month, the Guardian reported that the country "has a reputation for fair treatment of workers". But, as the new year violence illustrates, something has gone badly wrong. Tied up in opposition protests for new elections, Cambodia's garment workers' call for a higher minimum wage started a chain of events that led to a brutal police crackdown and the deaths of four of...
s biggest clothing brands, including Adidas, Nike, H&M, Primark, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Wal-Mart, have demanded Cambodia's prime minister explain the use of "deadly force" against striking factory workers. The retailers want to meet Hun Sen to express their "grave concern at the killing and wounding of workers and bystanders by security forces" during a protest against poverty wages. At least three...
s request. He has since been added to Interpol's wanted list. Polonsky's Cambodian lawyer Benson Samay said judges at a closed-door decision at the appeal court on Monday cited the lack of an extradition treaty between Cambodia and Russia in informing their decision. He also told reporters his client would stay in the country to fight other charges. Polonsky was detained last year in Cambodia and released...
s reviled middle classes are "re-educated" as proletarians and how the population survives by eating insects and rats. Midway through, as starvation takes hold, he starts chiselling ribs into the torsos of his figures and intercuts his factual reconstruction with antique propaganda newsreels showing bumper harvests that never go where they're needed. Panh is in search of the "missing picture", the...
Human rights groups say four dead during second clash in two days between workers in country's key industry and police ...
Professionals urge volunteers and visitors to stay away, saying their presence damages children and enables exploitation Helen Davidson ...
s garment industry Khmom, 19, is one of the estimated 400,000 factory workers toiling in Cambodia's garment factories, the country's biggest export earner. She recently lost her job at a factory in the capital, Phnom Penh, after taking time off to look after her two-year old daughter, who clings silently to her shoulder. "The factories don't care about us," she says. "They pay us so little, work us...
s border with Thailand. In the first interview since he was driven from Phnom Penh by Vietnamese-led forces in January, Pol Pot said that his resistance movement was fighting to save the Cambodian race, rather than for socialism. He told five Japanese newspaper and television reporters at the week-end that one-quarter of the country still owed allegiance to "democratic Kampuchea," as Cambodia was known...
t it be fortunate indeed if by providing the poor with safety nets and reducing their vulnerability, policymakers were inducing new investment in productive assets and boosting their local economy? The research we have conducted on Cambodia shows that this wishful thinking might need some re-considering. In order to analyse the potential economic impact of social protection policies, Prof Sherman Robinson...
flags. The three countries to be banned were warned last year that the European commission was preparing to end imports of their fish and fish products, because of concerns that they had failed to take action over piracy and illegal fishing. It is the first time imports have been banned as a result of the widespread global trade in landing fish for which vessels do not have the correct fishing permits....
s second-biggest clothing retailer frustrated by lack of government action in wake of Rana Plaza disaster H&M has pledged to pay a living wage to 850,000 textile workers after expressing frustration over a lack of action by governments to address working conditions in Asian factories in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster. The world's second-biggest clothing retailer said it would support factory owners...
Drawing inspiration from the movie Out of Africa, the Australian prostrated herself before Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen Helen Davidson ...
s office of the inspector general found that between 2006 and 2011, the suppliers paid commisions to two Cambodian officials from the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM), totalling $410,000 (£304,534), in return for awarding contracts for insecticide-treated bednets, which help prevent the spread of malaria. The report also cited "improper charges and manipulation...