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Hundreds of police posted near CNRP rally for Sokha
As CNRP acting president Kem Sokha once again refused to heed a summons to appear in court yesterday, government forces and Sokha’s supporters amassed in the capital just streets away from each other. Hundreds of riot and traffic police – equipped with guns, shields, batons and truck-mounted barriers – were deployed on Hun Sen Boulevard, only a few streets away from the CNRP’s headquarters where hundreds of CNRP supporters had congregated in anticipation of an attempt to arrest Sokha.
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Rainsy condemns Hun Manet parentage slur
Self-exiled CNRP leader Sam Rainsy has sent a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen condemning suggestions that his son, Hun Manet, was actually the son of a Vietnamese leader and expressing regret for such “immoral behaviour”. Rainsy wrote the letter on behalf of the CNRP leadership after Hun Sen on Monday made a speech at a Koh Pich graduation ceremony reiterating he would not “tolerate” the accusation and would demand “huge compensation”.
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Int’l union report ranks Kingdom in bottom ten
Cambodia made the list of the 10 worst countries in terms of labour rights, according to a report released last week by the International Trade Union Confederation. The annual report said that Cambodia dropped in its rankings for two reasons: the passage of the new Union Law, which “further limited workers’ ability to negotiate over their working conditions and pay”; and violent police crackdowns on labour protests.
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Gov’t halts building of Koh Rong island port
A Sihanoukville provincial coastal working group has ordered tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group to stop building a port on Koh Rong, saying the development was illegal. “The company has the legal right to invest in Koh Rong from the state, but on June 7, the provincial working group had to stop the construction of the port because it was illegal,” said Sihanoukville City Governor Y Sokleng, adding that the city had not received legal documents.
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Protesting garment workers burn tyres in capital
More than 200 current and former workers at the Malaysian-owned Global Apparels Limited factory in Phnom Penh yesterday burned tyres and garbage in front of the facility, as part of their ongoing protests to demand severance pay as the company nears closure. Soth Chet, an official with the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, claimed about 300 workers were still owed their May salary.
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How Will the Current Political Saga End?
Kem Sokha, the acting president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), has been steadfast in his refusal to appear in court, upping the ante even more yesterday by not appearing for the third time to serve as a witness. The big question now is, will this third strike lead to his arrest? Thann Leng, an investigating judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, ordered Mr. Sokha to appear in court on May 26 to clarify questions about his involvement with Khom Chandaraty, who has been accused of lying to police among a host of other charges.
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‘Noticeable problems’ in CNRP petition: gov’t
A government committee investigating the veracity of a petition submitted to the King by the Cambodia National Rescue Party claims to have found “many irregularities” after examining half of the more than 170,000 thumbprints on the document. “We’ve seen some noticeable problems,” National Police deputy chief and deputy director of the committee Korng Sokhorn said yesterday at a meeting to summarise the investigation so far. “Some of the thumbprints were applied to other people’s names and there are many overlapping thumbprints.”
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Kem Sokha Set to Ignore Summons, Stare Down Authorities
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha plans to again ignore a court summons today, with an Interior Ministry spokesman remaining coy on Monday about whether he would be arrested and Prime Minister Hun Sen promising to prevent any protests launched by the CNRP. Police tried to arrest Mr. Sokha on May 26 for failing to appear for questioning over a sex scandal the government has been prosecuting against him since March, and he has since been hiding out in the CNRP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh.
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Petitions filed after minister vows to solve land disputes
About 80 people representing families in three different land disputes gathered to file petitions in front of the Ministry of Land Management yesterday. The activists said they were motivated to come after hearing that the new land management minister, Chea Sophara, had made a priority of solving land disputes on May 30.
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RCAF timber truck drivers avoid arrest in Tbong Khmum
The drivers of three Royal Cambodian Armed Forces trucks caught yesterday transporting first-grade timber in Tbong Khmum province escaped arrest. Military police spokesman Eng Hy confirmed the vehicles were military and carrying first-grade timber, but he said the total size of the haul was yet to be established.
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Measures in works amid low child’s rights ranking
A new report has ranked Cambodia 125 out of 163 countries in terms of its protection of children’s rights, even as the government works to finalise a sub-decree and code of conduct to better shield children from abuse, exploitation and neglect. The KidsRights Index 2016, released yesterday, gave countries scores based on their respect for children’s rights to life, health, education and protection, as well as the countries’ enabling environment for child rights. Despite its low ranking, Cambodia’s score was near the median, with its child’s rights environment its lowest-scored metric.
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CNRP activists given seven-year terms over protest-turned-violent
Three opposition party activists were yesterday sentenced to seven years in prison over their alleged roles in a 2014 anti-government protest at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park that turned violent. The trio were convicted of “participating in an insurrection”, and will join another 11 CNRP supporters who were convicted last year over the demonstration.
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Disgraced General Loses Supreme Court Verdict
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a guilty verdict and 20-year prison sentence handed down to a former military general and an accomplice in 2013 for large-scale drug trafficking.
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NGOs Die First if Aid Cut: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday slammed recent calls for sanctions against Cambodia over what supporters of the measures call a government-level disrespect of democracy, claiming the first to be hurt by sanctions would be NGOs. Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh, Mr. Hun Sen implored the unnamed countries not to cut aid to the Kingdom, and then went on to praise the Kingdom’s close ties with China in an apparent show of solidarity and strength.
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PM talks tough to donor nations over aid 'threats'
Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned European parliamentarians who are calling for aid funding to Cambodia to be dependent on the country’s human rights situation improving not to make “threats” – while noting that China has never made such demands. “Don’t scare me. Don’t threaten me. Don’t threaten Cambodia by cutting off aid,” the premier said yesterday during a speech to nearly 4,000 graduating students on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, where the Chinese ambassador was also in attendance.
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No bail for jailed Adhoc, NEC officials
The Appeal Court yesterday rejected the bail applications of four Adhoc staffers and one National Election Committee official on the grounds that the case was still in the investigation stage and their release could affect “social stability”. The hearing, which began early and lasted all morning, ended with the Appeal Court upholding the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision to deny the five bail, more than a month after they were charged with bribing a witness.
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Raid finds dozens of reptiles in Battambang restaurant
Officials confiscated dozens of protected tortoises and lizards from a Battambang restaurant in Samlot district yesterday. The raid was a joint operation that involved Forestry Administration and Environment Ministry officials, as well as Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP) rangers.
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Pepper business adds to Kingdom’s deforestation woes
While the luxury timber trade continues to eat away at Cambodia’s forests, there is another industry that poses a growing threat to the Kingdom’s trees: pepper farms. Interviews with dozens of residents, local officials, conservation NGOs and experts in Mondulkiri, Kratie and Tbong Khmum provinces reveal that pepper farms are growing in popularity among those who can afford to create them.
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PM Challenges EU to Follow Through on Threat to Cut Aid
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday blithely brushed aside a recent threat from the European Parliament to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Cambodia over human rights abuses, challenging the body to follow through. At a plenary session in Strasbourg, France, last week, the parliament approved a resolution accusing the ruling CPP of pursuing politically motivated charges against its opponents and urged the E.U. to make its current $465-million aid package to Cambodia contingent on improvements to the country’s human rights situation. It was the second such resolution passed by the parliament since November.
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Duch accuses Nuon Chea of exaggerating confessions
Former Khmer Rouge second-in-command and current Case 002 defendant Nuon Chea was known to exaggerate confessions extracted from Vietnamese prisoners of war for propaganda broadcasts, the former chief of the notorious S-21 prison told the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday. S-21 warden Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, told the court the main point of torturing and interrogating Vietnamese prisoners was so they would confess to invading Cambodia. Their voices were recorded and broadcasted, but not before going under the editorial eye of Chea – who is facing charges of crimes against humanity, including genocide.
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