Saturday, 31 October 2009

Information Ministry Says RFA Not Registered


Written by DAP NEWS -- Saturday, 31 October 2009

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said on Friday Radio Free Asia (RFA) has not yet been officially registered yet, while the Ministry of Labor is investigating as to whether RFA has broken Cambodian labor laws.

“In Cambodia, all the press, radios, and TV must be officially registered,” the Information Minister stated.

On October 30 the Ministry of Labors invited RFA representatives to discuss recent allegations, Khieu Kanharith stated.

Seang Sophorn was dismissed by RFA in September. Other staff members who defended Sophorn were also allegedy punished by the angry manager of RFA.

Phan Sophat, Huy Vannak, Seang Sophorn and Thai Sothea burned a tire to protest being dismissed by RFA. The Ministry of Labors’s Um Savly stated that “It is not wrongdoing for the stop its staffs, it is different to link the framework,” the Ministry of Labors will sent the file to high Central Committees to manage next.

RFA’s representative victims Phan Sophat said that RFA was wrongdoing with no registered with MI or got memorandums with other institutions also mistake, he stressed that “I would like to ask to RFA to recognize to the Cambodian institution law and resolve the conflicting in legal way.”

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