Two activist Buddhist monks have fled Cambodia for neighboring Thailand to avoid arrest, saying they became targets of the country’s ruling party after joining a social justice protest demanding the release of prominent union leader Rong Chhun in late July.
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At least 26 defendants told the Appeal Court over two years that they faced violence or torture by authorities to force confessions, according to a trial monitoring report by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
Cambodian borrowers owe average of US$3,800 each, as coronavirus widens debt crisis.
Cambodian farmer Roeurn Reth fears she will have to sell her land to repay microfinance loans that have ballooned due to pandemic-spurred job losses in her family.
Some 53 employees of Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra will receive benefits due after they were dismissed from the five-star hotel, according to Pat Saruon, President of the Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra Hotel Independent Solidarity Union.
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Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Koh Kong Provincial Court on November 18 to await the sentencing of their three community land representatives who were accused of defamation related to a land dispute.
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Some 190 Bunong indigenous people in Mondulkiri province are expressing concern that land sales in the Tring and Pupe mountain areas could result in a loss of cultural sites and their ancestral identities.
