Flood advances across Dangkor

Flood advances across Dangkor

More families have been forced to temporarily move and numerous businesses were affected after a still-unpatched leak in the capital’s Prek Thnout dam led to unprecedented flooding along a section of road in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district starting late on Tuesday night.

A 2-kilometre stretch of road along Street 217 – which runs from the south of Spean Thma commune’s Prek Chrey bridge to Roluos commune’s Kuo Srov roundabout – yesterday saw water levels almost knee-deep, prompting a factory located along the road, Y&W Garment Co Ltd, to temporarily close down.

“To prevent any danger befalling our workers and staff – totalling about 2,000 people – our factory on Tuesday declared a temporary holiday until the water recedes,” said Cheab Pichnary, administration assistant of the children’s garment manufacturer.

Several tightly bundled, metre-high bags of scrap cloth from the factory could be seen densely packed in a row to form a barrier stemming the water’s flow into the premises.



“We started building [the barrier] at 11pm [on Tuesday], when the water level started rising, until the sky was bright,” said Wang Xing Shan, a worker at the factory.

According to Pichnary, the factory – which typically produces about 2,000 pieces of clothing per hour – yesterday missed exporting four containers of an overseas shipment.

“Our factory is suffering a loss of $40,000 to $50,000 per day, and we will lose even more if the flooding continues,” she said.

Business, meanwhile, was dismal at a stall selling local dishes opposite the factory.

“Our business depends on the factory workers,” stall vendor Roth Sreymom, 18, said. “If the workers do not work, we won’t be able to sell food, too. We will lose our income if the workers have a long holiday.”

According to an updated report released yesterday by the National Committee for Disaster Management, flooding has so far affected a total of 850 families in all of Dangkor district, 250 of which have been evacuated.

“The water is knee-deep now,” said 32-year-old Sovesna, a resident who lives along the road, but was forced to temporarily relocate. “My family and I decided to pack our stuff to stay at our relatives’ house for a while to avoid any unexpected accidents such as electric shock.”

Dangkor district governor Nut Puthdara yesterday said traffic along the road will be temporarily halted to “reduce road damage”, and called for public patience and cooperation.

Pastor in Siem Reap arrested over child sex abuse

Pastor in Siem Reap arrested over child sex abuse

A South Korean national who was the pastor of two churches in Siem Reap town was arrested yesterday after police received a tip-off that he had allegedly been sexually abusing children for “many years”, authorities said.

According to Duong Thavery, provincial chief of anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection police, suspect Park Youl had been living in Siem Reap for about 10 years, and was the pastor of one church in Siem Reap town and another in Prasat Bakong district. He was arrested yesterday at about 9am after police investigated a tip from child protection NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE).

“APLE knew the information from a victim who stopped living in the church [in Seam Reap town],” said Thavery. “The victim stopped living there, and reported that she was called by the pastor to his room and he eventually had sexual intercourse with her.”

“After that, we asked for [permission] from the deputy prosecutor to look into the case. After the investigation, we called in the pastor for questioning and called in other kids,” she added. “Each of the kids was abused by the pastor for many years.”

Thavery said that Park had confessed to having intercourse with some of his eight accusers, but maintained he had only kissed others. The victims ranged in age from children as young as 11, to young adults as old as 21 whose abuse dated back several years.

An APLE press release on the case, however, gave the victims’ ages as 11 to 16.

The pastor allegedly plied the victims with money and other gifts, such as bicycles, according to the police report.

Park is expected be charged with indecent acts committed against a minor under the age of 15.

Cambodia worst in region for rule of law: report

Cambodia ranked 112 out of 113 countries surveyed globally and dead last in the East Asia and Pacific region when it comes to the perceived rule of law, a new report released today states.

The annual Rule of Law Index, published by the legal non-profit World Justice Project, measures how rule of law is perceived in countries around the world by scoring eight factors: constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice and criminal justice.

Of the 15 countries surveyed from the East Asia and Pacific region, Cambodia scored lowest and New Zealand highest, with countries like Mongolia and Malaysia falling somewhere in between. Among all 113 countries rated worldwide, Cambodia came in 112, scoring just below Afghanistan and above only Venezuela, a country experiencing food shortages and frequent violence.

“Cambodia is a country that is struggling in many areas, and I was hoping to see a little bit of progress since last year,” said the World Justice Program’s Alejandro Ponce, one of the study’s authors.Cambodia dropped two points in the ranking since last year’s report. Order and security, which refers to the absence of violent crime and civil conflict, was the only factor for which Cambodia received a slightly less dismal score, ranking number 81 out of 113 countries. But the country still remained in the bottom third for all eight factors identified, scoring the lowest in civil justice, with absence of corruption and open governance trailing close behind.

Cambodia’s courts are among its most maligned institutions. Last September, a delegation from the International Bar Association slammed Cambodia’s judiciary as riddled with corruption and political influence and called on the body to consider booting the Kingdom’s bar association from its ranks.

More recently a slew of questionable court cases against rights workers and members of the opposition amid a period of elevated tensions have been decried as baldly political. Just last week, UN Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith said that she had raised concerns with the Justice Minister over the seemingly flimsy cases, saying she feared “the depth of evidence does not meet the international standards of proof”.

According to Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, pervasive corruption in nearly all sectors of society is contributing to Cambodia’s low ranking. Government leaders will need to crack down on corruption, especially in the country’s judicial system if rule of law is to be strengthened in the Kingdom, Preap said.

“Fighting corruption must genuinely be on top of the government agenda in practice, not just in political propaganda or rhetoric,” Preap said yesterday, adding that the government should sign up for the Open Government Partnership, an international initiative that aims to secure commitments from governments to promote transparency and good governance.

“We believe [it] will change the Cambodian outlook and significantly improve its image,” he added.

The report’s authors used a general population poll that surveyed a representative sample of 1,000 respondents from the three largest cities of each country, Ponce explained. Questionnaires were also given to in-country experts on topics like civil law, criminal justice and public health.

Those surveyed were asked to rate everything from freedom of association to the right to information and non-discrimination in the criminal justice system.

“There are questions about experiences people have encountered, so whether they have paid a bribe to the police, or if they paid a bribe to access public health systems, or what their experience was if they requested information,” Ponce explained.

“So this is a reflection of whether people feel they find justice or not.”

Sinathay Neb, director of Cambodia’s Advocacy and Policy Institute, noted that access to information, a field in which Cambodia scores low, is key to ensuring that the government responds to citizens’ needs.

“Without a clear mechanism and legal framework for open information and citizens’ right to know, [a lack of rule of law] will continue to affect the development of the country and citizens’ lives,” Neb said.

Government spokesman Phay Sipha, however, was dismissive of the report’s findings, which he characterised as “biased”.

"Cambodia’s government doesn’t care about ranking, because [the report] serves its own purpose,” he said. “It’s biased and selective; they do their own research for their own interest."

Forestry crimes triple, but fines down: report

Illegal forest clearing is taking place at about three times the rate it did last year, but fines for forestry and wildlife crimes have fallen dramatically, according to a progress report released last week by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries (MAFF).

The report catalogues all statistics from the ministry for the first nine months of the year, and shows markedly different figures across the board to the figures in the same report released last year.

Though a new anti-logging task force was created on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s orders at the start of the year, seizures of chainsaws through October were little more than half what they were in the same period last year – down to 249 from 452 – according to the report.

Similarly, while 1,653 forestry and wildlife crime suspects were sent to court during the first nine months of 2015, the figure was only 1,166 this year. For 2015, 487 cases resulted in fines, whereas this year’s report notes that only 293 fines were levied.

Despite the reduced figures, the report notes that almost three times more wood had been confiscated through October. Last year’s report noted 4,163 cubic metres of seized wood, while this year’s noted 12,089 cubic metres.

Eng Hy, spokesman for the national military police, whose commander Sao Sokha was appointed to lead the anti-logging taskforce by Hun Sen, declined to comment on the MAFF figures yesterday, referring questions to the Forestry Administration (FA).

“Ask the Forestry Administration, they know about this because they made the report,” he said.FA chief Chheng Kimsum also declined to comment on the figures, saying he had not yet read the report. MAFF spokesman Lor Raksmey could not be reached for comment.

MAFF and the Environment Ministry in April swapped jurisdictional control of a number of protected areas, with the Environment Ministry taking on a number of MAFF’s old conservation duties.

Environment Ministry spokesman Eang Sophalleth said that while the ministry had not yet set up its own mechanisms to track arrests and seizures of wood, daily reports indicated that authorities were taking “a lot of action” to end forest crimes.

Separately, Phnom Kravanh district police chief Vong Savath said his forces earlier this week arrested Chea Saro, 55, for inciting 15 villagers to clear protected forests so he could sell the land on behalf of others. Saro was sent to court on Wednesday, and the villagers were educated and released, Savath said.

Farmer arrested in Kep girl’s murder

Kep authorities on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old man in connection to the brutal murder of a 7-year-old girl who was apparently killed over a pair of earrings worth about $0.60.

Famer Teng Proeun, 25, confessed to the crime, according to Poung Sokheng, Kep’s deputy provincial police chief. “After having questioned him, he confessed that he had robbed and killed the girl.”

Provincial police chief Ing Sam Ol said the suspect, who was arrested near the girl’s house, is scheduled to be sent to provincial court today. “He thought the earrings were expensive and beautiful,” Sam Ol said.

The suspect saw the girl walking along the forest and took the opportunity to rob her, Sam Ol added. He allegedly hit the girl, prompting her to cry and run, but not wanting her to reveal the robbery, he allegedly hit her again in the head. He then allegedly staged the girl’s body as if she had drowned. The girl’s body was found in a lake on Monday after she went missing Sunday.

Jim McCabe, director of the Child Protection Unit, which was involved in the case, said this kind of crime is “extremely unusual” in Kep.

Cambodian Lawmaker Wants to Question Cabinet Ministers Over Kem Ley Murder

The head of a Cambodian National Assembly commission wants two members of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet to answer questions about the investigation into the murder in July of popular government critic Kem Ley, RFA’s Khmer Service has learned.

As the investigation into the slaying drags on with what looks like little progress, the chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, Complaints, and Investigation wants to get some answers from Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana and Interior Minister Sar Kheng.

“It’s very regrettable that over this past three months the investigation seems to have come up with nothing new,” said commission chairman Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker Eng Chhai Eang.
“I am more concerned that the person named ‘Chuop Samlap’ could be released,” he told RFA, using suspect Oeuth Ang’s nom de plume. Roughly translated Choup Samlap means ‘meet to kill.”

Kem Ley was gunned down in broad daylight on July 10 when he stopped in a Star Mart convenience store beside a Caltex gas station in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Though authorities charged Oueth Ang with the killing, many in Cambodia don’t believe the government’s story that Kem Ley was killed by the former soldier over a debt.

Just days before he was gunned down, Kem Ley had discussed on an RFA Khmer Service call-in show a report by London-based Global Witness detailing the extent of the wealth of the family of Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for 31 years.

Since the arrest, the investigation has apparently stalled, or is not being pursued as the Cambodian authorities have someone in custody.

“There are many issues as we know," Eng Chhai Eang said. “As head of the commission, I will do whatever I can to push for them to seek the real killer.”

Eng Chhai Eang did not give a date for the summons, but said he hoped it would come soon after opposition party’ lawmakers decide to return to the parliament.

Interior Ministry spokesperson Chin Malin told RFA that the ministry will look into the summon letter if it is officially submitted.

Opposition party lawmakers have been boycotting the National Assembly as the two parties have now been locked for months in a political statement, with Cambodian authorities stripping several opposition lawmakers of their legislative immunity.

Lawmakers have also been put on trial for a variety of offenses, many of which appear to be aimed at undercutting the CNRP before local elections in 2017 and national elections the following year.

A Sam Rainsy Return?

One of those lawmakers, CNRP president Sam Rainsy, told activists on Wednesday that he would return to Cambodia as soon as the 30 jailed human rights workers and opposition party officials are released.

Sam Rainsy has been living abroad off and on for years as Hun Sen’s government has charged him with a number of offenses that observers inside and outside Cambodia see as politically motivated.

“I will return to Cambodia immediately,” he told supporters via Skype.

“They can do whatever to me, arrest me and put in jail or even kill me, but [I] just ask for one thing: The release of those compatriots, the release of political prisoners,”  he added.

Government spokesman Phay Siphan called Sam Rainsy’s proposal a political ploy.

“It should be embarrassing,” he said. “His [Sam Rainsy’s] action, bravery and leadership is no comparison to Kem Sokha, who has never left the country despite all kinds of warning, threats, and facing arrest.”

Kem Sokha is under virtual house arrest since police attempted to arrest him in May for ignoring court orders to appear as a witness in a pair of defamation cases related to an alleged affair with a hairdresser.

The charges against both Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha are widely viewed as being politically motivated.

Political analyst So Chantha said he believed Sam Rainsy should return to Cambodia.

“To me, whether there is any exchange or not, Sam Rainsy’s choice should be to return to Cambodia rather than sending political statements,” he told RFA. “He should return to show his bravery to the people in a way that would help the opposition party win the upcoming election.”

Local elections in Cambodia are set for 2017, with national elections scheduled for 2018.

Hun Manet faces protests abroad

While opposition party officials face issues at home, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s regime is facing headwinds abroad as his eldest son who is considered his successor was heckled by overseas Cambodians during a recent visit to Australia.

In a press conference at the Phnom Penh international airport on Wednesday, Hun Manet, lashed out at demonstrations against him in Australia, saying they were ginned up by the CNRP.

“Do not forget that the [ruling Cambodian People’s Party] CPP also has forces we can use, but we did not,” he said. “[CNRP lawmaker] Nhay Chamroeun goes everywhere, but the CPP does not go protesting and holding banners, and there are no demonstrations in Cambodia.”

While there may be no CPP-sponsored demonstrations in Cambodia, Nhay Chamroeun was one of two opposition lawmakers brutally beaten in front of the National Assembly building in May.

Witnesses say that about 200 young men from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s corps of bodyguards were driven in trucks to the protest and later boasted about beating the politicians.

Hun Manet is lieutenant general in the Cambodian army and is deputy commander of the bodyguard unit.

Social development researcher Meas Ny told RFA that Hun Manet is likely to become the country’s leader in future.

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Job site seeks to curb dangerous migration

The NGO Open Institute has launched a new online service that aims to help Cambodian unskilled labourers find jobs within the country as part of an effort to discourage worker migration in hopes of reducing human trafficking.

The service, called Bong Pheak, is an online website for connecting potential employees with employers and is funded by USAID and Winrock.

Project manager Federico Barreras said one of the main factors that lead people to leave Cambodia in search of work is “a lack of information about jobs in Cambodia”.

“If people have more choices, we believe they will take jobs within the country,” he said.

Barreras acknowledged that higher salaries abroad are a major contributing factor to unsafe migration, but said the purpose of Bong Pheak is simply to help Cambodians make more informed decisions.

Joel Preston, of the labour rights group Central, agree that the service “will contribute a lot to stemming potentially dangerous migration”.

Preston also called on the government to “do their bit” in improving wages and working conditions in order to further reduce unsafe migration.

A September study from Open Institute found that while the average legal migrant worker in Thailand makes more than twice as much as the average Cambodian worker, the majority of migrant workers are there illegally and often paid exploitative wages. In fact, 15 percent of migrant workers that eventually came back to Cambodia cited low wages as the main reason for returning.

Tourism gears for China rising

Cambodia is working to develop more facilities for Chinese tourists, including an accreditation system for tourism establishments, as part of its “China-Ready” strategy announced in May.

Tourism Ministry spokesman Tith Chantha said yesterday that Chinese tourists present a huge opportunity for Cambodia’s tourism industry as the Asian giant’s population and income levels continue to rise. Speaking at the opening of the CamFood and CamHotel exhibitions in Phnom Penh, he said about 130 million Chinese go abroad each year and this number was expected to reach 200 million by 2020.

The goal of the Kingdom’s China-Ready strategy is for Cambodia to attract 2 million of these Chinese tourists a year by 2020.

“It is vital for Cambodia to act on the opportunity and potential of Chinese tourism and we have prepared our China-Ready strategy in order to attract Chinese to visit our country,” he said.

“We are now trying to build the capacity of our hospitality services.”

Cambodia received 3.7 million international tourist arrivals during the first nine months of the year and expects to receive 5 million tourists this year.

Last year, the number of Chinese tourists visiting Cambodia grew 14 percent to 700,000. This year the figure is expected to be closer to one million, according to Chantha.

He said the China-Ready strategy, which is managed by its own department in the Tourism Ministry, is looking to improve facilities for this fast-growing segment.

“China-Ready will insure that all services in the tourism sector have Chinese-language facilities, such as Chinese speakers on site or menus in Chinese, and [establishments that provide these services] will have a sign that the facility is accredited as China-Ready to provide comfort and convenience to Chinese visitors,” he explained.

He added that the name of the tourism establishment should also be translated into Chinese on its signage in order to attract Chinese tourists.

Sinan Thourn, chairman of the Cambodian office for the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), said it was vital that the China-Ready promote the use of Chinese language in the tourism sector as most Chinese visitors do not speak a common tongue such as English.

“China-Ready is a program to promote the use of Chinese language as a facility for Chinese tourists in our tourism sector as English is not as widely spoken in China as it is among the Cambodian people,” he said.

“We hope this will encourage more Chinese tourists to visit Cambodia.”

The most important element to attracting Chinese tourists, according to Chantha, is human resources. He said the Tourism Ministry has recognised this and plans to establish vocational training centres in Siem Reap and Sihanoukville next year to improve the skills of workers in the tourism industry, including language proficiency, and will also cooperate with private vocational schools nationwide.

Experts have said the continued rapid growth of tourism, especially Chinese tourists, could put a strain on the Kingdom’s human resources. Tourism Ministry officials expect the number of Cambodians working in the tourism industry to increase to between 800,000 and one million by 2020, from about 680,000 today.

Not everyone is convinced of the China-Ready strategy. Khiev Thy, head of the Angkor Tour Guide Association in Siem Reap, said the Tourism Ministry should not be so focused on Chinese tourists, whose contribution to the local economy is relatively limited.

“European tourists generally spend much more money than Chinese tourists,” he noted. “When Chinese tourists come they typically come in a group with one guide and one driver. But when Europeans come they arrive as individuals and pay a lot more into the local tourism sector.”

Thy said Chinese-speaking local guides already cater to the flow of Chinese tourists, and from an economic point of view, it would make more sense to adopt an “International-Ready” strategy.

Drug arrests spike 70%

The number of drug arrests across Cambodia since last November rose nearly 70 percent compared to the same period a year ago, yielding some 111 kilos of confiscated drugs, according to a preliminary report by the National Authority for Combating Drugs.

The report, which was obtained yesterday and still needs to be finalised, compiled data on drug cases in the Kingdom from November 2015 through September 2016. That period saw the number of arrests sharply increase to more than 8,000, with only about 4,800 people arrested in the same period last year. No comparison was offered for the amount of drugs confiscated.

The number of drug cases sent to court also rose to 3,406, compared with 2,190 the previous year during the same time, representing a 55 percent increase, the report shows.

Khieu Saman, director of the anti-drug department at the Ministry of Interior, said that a better understanding of investigation procedures among officers had contributed to the increase of arrests. This year alone, 2,600 police officers have been trained across all provinces.

“In the past, there were also many drug crimes, but we did not understand the procedure,” he said yesterday.

However, experts in the past have expressed concerns over the number of arrests in comparison to the amount of drugs, and have suggested the ratio pointed to police only catching “smaller fish”, as opposed to large-scale drug dealers.

Tun Nay Soe, with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, declined to comment on the specifics of the report, but did say that Cambodia is a transit route for drugs, which is not a good sign.

Shipment of live civets seized en route to Vietnam

Thirty-five live common palm civets were seized in a crackdown in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district yesterday and have been handed over to the NGO Wildlife Alliance.

Moung Dara, chief of customs at the Chrey Thom border crossing in Koh Thom, said that the civets, which weighed a total of about 100 kilogrammes, were seized en route to Vietnam yesterday morning.

Dara said that the small cat-like carnivores were “being kept in cartage [ready] for crossing to Vietnam, and the person [carrying them] escaped”.

Wildlife Alliance is now expected to release the animals back into the wild. A letter from Wildlife Alliance CEO Suwanna Guantlett acknowledged the seizure and thanked Dara for handing over the wildlife.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List lists the common palm civet as being of “least concern”, noting that it has a wide population distribution, despite downward population trends and a “continuing decline of mature individuals”.

Civets are commonly hunted for their meat, but are also held in captivity in Vietnam to produce ca phe chon – or coffee that is passed through the civet’s digestive tract before being brewed.

According to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, in the first nine months of the year, there were 1,166 recorded cases of wildlife crime, 873 of which were sent to court, and 293 of which resulted in fines.

ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋដែលរស់នៅត្រង់ចំណុច ផ្លូវ២១៧ ភូមិព្រែកជ្រៃ ឃុំស្ពានថ្ម ខណ្ឌដង្កោ

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កសិផលនាំមកពីប្រទេសវៀតណាម និង ថៃ

កសិផលនាំមកពីប្រទេសវៀតណាម និង ថៃ យកមកលក់ក្នុងទីផ្សារនៃប្រទេសកាណាដា គឺមានតម្លៃខ្ពស់ ស្របពេលដែលកសិផលរបស់ប្រជារាស្រ្តខ្មែរ ខ្វះទីផ្សារ លក់មិនចេញ។

១-អង្កគុណភាពមធ្យម មួយបាវ ទម្ងន់ ២០ គីឡូ តម្លៃ ៣៧.៩៩ ដុល្លារកាណាដា ស្មើនឹង ១១៧២៧២ រៀល

២-ត្រយូងចេកទឹក ១ តម្លៃ ២.៨៧ ដុល្លារ កាណាដា ស្មើនឹង ៨៨៦៣ រៀល

៣-សណ្តែកគួរ កន្លះគីឡូ តម្លៃ ២.៦១ ដុល្លារកាណាដា ស្មើនឹង ៨០៥៨ រៀល

៤-ត្រប់ស្រួយ កន្លះគីឡូ តម្លៃ ៤.២៣ ដុល្លារកាណាដា ស្មើនឹង ១៣០៥៣ រៀល

៥-ត្រប់ ២ ផ្លែ តម្លៃ ២.៦៥ ស្មើនឹង ៨១៨២ រៀល

៦-គល់ស្លឹកគ្រៃ ១ ដុំ មាន ៣ គល់ តម្លៃ ១ ដុល្លារ កាណាដា ស្មើនឹង ៣០៨២ រៀល

៧-ម្ទេសប្លោក ៣ ផ្លែ តម្លៃ ២.៧៧ ដុល្លារកាណាដា ស្មើនឹង ៨៥៥៥ រៀល ។