Tag: Freedom of Expression / Information / Speech
Cambodian Opposition Begins Three-Day Protest
Cambodia's opposition has begun three days of mass demonstrations in the capital to call for the government to allow an independent probe into alleged election fraud.
Thousands gathered early Wednesday in Phnom Penh's Freedom Park, where they were met by thousands of riot police. Many Cambodians feared a repeat of...
Cambodia’s Opposition Set for Three-Day Mass Protests
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will hold mass protests for three consecutive days beginning Wednesday, with plans by supporters to march on foreign diplomatic missions to highlight demands for a review of election results it says have been tainted by fraud.
The party said it expects some 40,000...
Echoes of Indonesia in Myanmar transition
RAKHINE STATE - The brutal images and survivor accounts show a dreadful synchronicity. Once again families huddle around what possessions they salvaged from their homes before they were torched. Children scamper between rows of hangdog wood and bamboo huts. Adults appear frightened and listless.
It is as if the hatred...
Thousands march in Cambodian opposition protest
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Thousands of Cambodian opposition supporters marched through the capital Wednesday to deliver a petition to the United Nations urging it to intervene in what they say was a rigged election that illegitimately returned Prime Minister Hun Sen to power.
The march kicked off a three-day rally marking the...
Cambodia opposition begins 3 days of protests
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital in a blazing afternoon sun Wednesday to demonstrate against the government's longtime ruling party accused of corruption and voter fraud.
The protesters, supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), are challenging the results of...
Democratic Voice of Burma: Irrawaddy villagers protest over fishing rights
Some 150 villagers gathered on Tuesday morning in central Burma’s Irrawaddy division to protest a government scheme they say is preventing them from fishing in local ponds to earn a livelihood.
The villagers from Ma-ubin, some 25 miles west of Rangoon, are demanding the right to fish freely in local...
Cambodian-Americans Warn of Dangers of Political Deadlock
WASHINGTON DC - As demonstrations continued in Phnom Penh, Cambodian-Americans in Washington said this week that the international community can no longer stay out of Cambodian affairs, lest the political deadlock turn to violence.
At a discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, held by the Khmer People’s Network...
Myanmar: Sein Win, force for press freedom in Myanmar, dies
Sein Win, a renowned journalist in Myanmar who championed press freedom and endured three stints in prison as he chronicled several decades of his country’s turbulent history, died Thursday at age 91.
His family said he died in a Yangon hospital after a long period of ill health.
His work won...
Malaysian tribes protest mega-dam
Hundreds of Malaysian tribespeople blockaded the construction site of a new dam Thursday which is set to force them from their homes in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, activists said.
The Baram dam is the latest in a series of controversial hydroelectric mega-dams planned by the Sarawak government as...
Myanmar: Over 2,000 migrant workers file labor grievances
U Sein Htay, leader of the Migrant Worker Rights Network, announced on14 October that over 2,000 Myanmar workers based in Mahachai,Thailand, have filed workplace complaints within the past year.
U Sein Htay reported this figure at a workshop on migration and mediaheld in Yangon.
Workers have citedissues such as physical injury,...
