Hundreds of workers from Prestige Garment Co Ltd in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district are on strike and said they will petition Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene after negotiations failed to reinstate their sacked representative who stands accused of intending to form a trade union.
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The wife of detained alleged filmmaker Rath Rott Mony and 10 other protestors gathered outside the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Phnom Penh for a second time on Wednesday, reiterating calls for his release.
Some 1,000 villagers on Tuesday blocked National Road 2 in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district, each demanding compensation of $250 from the provincial authority for communal land they claim a former commune chief sold to a well-connected developer without their knowledge in 2008.
Nearly 200 villagers from Dang Peng commune in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district on Friday stopped the authorities from dismantling the homes of four families alleged to have been built in a preservation area of the Cardamom Mountains.https://bit.ly/2R9im4X;
