• Locals Fearful of Eviction Due to Riverfront Development Plan

    Locals Fearful of Eviction Due to Riverfront Development Plan

    • Released Date: 08-Jan-2015

    BY KHY SOVUTHY | JANUARY 8, 2015Residents of Phnom Penhs Daun Penh district living along the 2-km stretch of riverfront property the municipality plans to turn into a public park expressed concern Wednesday that they could be evicted without compensa

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  • Workers Earning Up to $200 to Avoid Salary Tax

    Workers Earning Up to $200 to Avoid Salary Tax

    • Released Date: 08-Jan-2015

    BY KANG SOTHEAR AND GEORGE STYLLIS | JANUARY 8, 2015Low-wage workers will be able to earn up to $200 a month before their salary is taxed at the minimum 5 percent rate, raising the tax-free threshold by about $75 from the current $125, according to a

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  • Two Villagers Detained During Roadblock Protest in Siem Reap

    Two Villagers Detained During Roadblock Protest in Siem Reap

    • Released Date: 06-Jan-2015

    BY NEOU VANNARIN | JANUARY 6, 2015Two villagers were detained in Siem Reap province on Monday as they participated in a large protest that blocked the main road leading to Kulen Mountain, a popular tourist attraction in Banteay Srei district, village

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  • Seven years later, migrant fisherman calls

    Seven years later, migrant fisherman calls

    • Released Date: 05-Jan-2015

    Mon, 5 January 2015Laignee Barron and Khouth Sophak Chakrya After going missing for seven years, a Cambodian fisherman who claims he was trafficked to a trawler in Indonesia called his father begging for help last month.Thik Seangly, now 28, initiall

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  • Garment Workers Protest at South Korean Embassy

    Garment Workers Protest at South Korean Embassy

    • Released Date: 30-Dec-2014

    About 600 employees of a South Korean-owned garment factory rallied in front of the countrys Phnom Penh embassy on Monday calling on Seoul to intervene in their dispute with factory management.The protesters were among 1,200 workers at the Cambo Koto

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  • Labour strikes plunge in 2014

    Labour strikes plunge in 2014

    • Released Date: 30-Dec-2014

    Wed, 31 December 2014Taing Vida and Sean Teehan Strikes in 2014 plummeted by nearly half compared with the year before, leading some to surmise that dialogue between factories and unions had improved, while at least one advocacy group suggested it wa

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  • Koh Kong villagers block road to officials house

    Koh Kong villagers block road to officials house

    • Released Date: 27-Dec-2014

    Sat, 27 December 2014Taing Vida Villagers angered by the continued drive by Chinese firm Union Development Group to evict them from their homes in Koh Kong province have been threatened with force after they blocked a road leading to the district gov

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  • Strike unfazed by court

    Strike unfazed by court

    • Released Date: 25-Dec-2014

    Thu, 25 December 2014Mom Kunthear As striking workers at a garment factory in Phnom Penhs Por Sen Chey district continued to burn tires yesterday, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction ordering employees to return to work.Cambo Kotop wor

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  • Corpses of two migrant workers are repatriated

    Corpses of two migrant workers are repatriated

    • Released Date: 11-Dec-2014

    Thu, 11 December 2014Sen David The bodies of two Cambodian migrant workers were repatriated to the Kingdom from Thailand yesterday via the Poipet border checkpoint.According to Poipet town commune chief Sin Namyoung, one of the men died after falling

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  • Domestic workers push for protections

    Domestic workers push for protections

    • Released Date: 11-Dec-2014

    Thu, 11 December 2014Pech Sotheary Forty national and foreign NGOs yesterday called on the government to ratify the International Labour Organizations 2011 Domestic Workers Convention in order to better safeguard the rights of Cambodian domestic work

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  • EU to probe sugar disputes

    EU to probe sugar disputes

    • Released Date: 09-Dec-2014

    Cambodia has taken a “crucial step towards justice” by launching a reparations program for thousands of villagers who were forcibly evicted to make way for industrial sugar plantations, according to campaigners.Resettlement experts hired by the Europ

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  • Land Disputes Must be Resolved by Law

    Land Disputes Must be Resolved by Law

    • Released Date: 05-Dec-2014

    PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) All land disputes must be resolved in accordance with existing laws and regulations without violating the rights of all parties concerned.A ranking official from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Constructi

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