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Former CNRP Commune Chief Arrested for 2019 Incitement
A former opposition commune chief in Kampong Speu province was arrested and jailed on Thursday for a crime of incitement dating back to January 2019, the provincial governor said.
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Floating communities receive COVID-19 vaccines after Phnom Penh evictions
Roughly 170 of the largely ethnic Vietnamese people who were evicted from their floating homes in Phnom Penh to Kandal province’s Loeuk Dek district have now been vaccinated against COVID-19. The Association of Khmer-Vietnamese in Cambodia has estimated that about half of the ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia had been vaccinated.
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Authorities Investigate Land Clearings in Two Provinces, but No Arrests
A communal lake was in the process of being filled in Kandal’s Kien Svay district, while 30 hectares of flooded forest was cleared in Kampong Chhnang over the past week, authorities said, but no perpetrators have been arrested for the violations.
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Building climate-resilient health systems in Cambodia
The impacts of climate change in Cambodia are increasingly posing risks to people’s health, while straining the country’s health system. Since 2019, the country has been piloting a project to help increase the resilience and capacity of its health systems to respond to these climate-sensitive health risks.
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Information ministry and Sputnik train civil servants
A second online training session for 35 civil servants in the field of journalism was arranged by the Ministry of Information in cooperation with the Russian news agency Sputnik on July 19. The session was held under the theme “How to Verify Information on New Types of Media to Avoid Disinformation”.
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US Indictment Alleges Chinese Hack of Cambodian Ministry
A U.S. Justice Department indictment accusing four Chinese nationals of cyber espionage reveals how hackers allegedly stole data on Mekong River discussions with China from a Cambodian ministry in 2018.
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Gov’t warns resellers of Covid test kits
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications – which accepts purchase orders for Covid-19 antigen rapid test kits at $3.70 per unit, an offer exclusively for public and private institutions – has warned against reselling them.
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Boeng Tompun Residents’ Land Dug Up for City Reservoir
Sum Chantha knew there was interest in her land in early April, just before the capital went into lockdown, as workers began to station generators and excavators on the adjacent road, machines looming over her 10-by-130-meter patch of water lilies and vegetables.
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Three Journalists Detained, Educated for Covering Boeng Tompun Dispute
Three journalists who were attempting a live broadcast from a land protest at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tompun lake area were taken to a police station and made to sign an agreement that they would not make the same mistake again.
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TOP NEWS: Cambodia Reports 811 New Cases of COVID19; 798 Recovered; 20 Died
Cambodia reported 811 new cases of COVID19, 20 patients died, while 798 patients recovered on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health's press release dated 22 July 2021.
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Cambodia Charges Three Mother Nature Activists With Conspiracy
A court in Cambodia has added new anti-government conspiracy charges against three environmental activists who already are serving jail terms of up to 20 months for incitement convictions, in a move that could keep them in prison for 10 years, their lawyer said Wednesday.
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Bid for political solution to Sokha case
With elections approaching, a new call has been raised for “national reconciliation” between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and former officials of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to pave the way for former opposition leader Kem Sokha to return to politics.
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Phnom Penh Construction Workers Protest Over Late Payments
Around 30 construction workers protested at the Hui W Travel Agent construction site — a firm connected to Chinese payment service Huione — after they were not paid salaries, with a resolution reached hours later.
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Political ‘Student Movement’ Bemoans Abusive Political Discourse
A“student movement” that grew out of nationalistic protests in the late 1990s and is now U.S.-based is raising a debate over the abusive nature of online discourse in Cambodian politics, putting a spotlight on fissures in the country’s outlawed opposition.
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LICADHO: Grant Bail to Vulnerable Pre-Trial Detainees during Pandemic
Rights group LICADHO on July 21 called for the courts and the Ministry of Justice to consider granting mild and vulnerable pre-trial detainees the right to bail to reduce prison overcrowding amid the pandemic.
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Jailed Environmentalists Further Charged With Plotting, Insulting King
Three Mother Nature environmentalists arrested last year and already serving jail terms for incitement have been handed two further charges, insulting the king and plotting, which carry maximum jail sentences of five and 10 years respectively, their lawyer said.
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Three convicted Mother Nature activists handed an additional plotting charge
Three environmental activists convicted earlier this year on incitement charges related to a planned protest have been handed a new charge of ‘plotting’ by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in connection with an ongoing case against four other activists.
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Only 377 NagaWorld Workers Still Holding Out Against Layoffs: Union
In a move a labor group said was unprecedented, NagaWorld is calling on governmental labor inspectors to authorize the dismissal of a group of union leaders as part of the casino’s mass layoffs, overriding the legal protections unionists enjoy unless they have committed serious offenses, a workers’ representative said.
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Unions Demand Global Brands Help Workers Losing Income during Lockdown
Workers’ unions and civil society groups called on well-known fashion brands to do more to help Cambodian workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This came after a new report stated that Cambodian garment sector workers had lost millions in wages during the lockdown from April to May 2021.
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Families affected by land dispute with Defense Ministry still wait for compensation
Hundreds of families affected by a land dispute with the Ministry of Defense in Kandal province, are still waiting for compensation and a resolution six weeks after violence broke out.
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