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We’ll need that in writing: cops
A family calling for what a rights group says is a long overdue investigation into the disappearance of their son during a violent demonstration in Phnom Penh some 19 months ago has been encouraged – if somewhat indirectly – to file a formal complaint with law enforcement if they hope for resolution. In a statement posted to the National Police’s web page on Monday, deputy director Kirt Chantharith encouraged “families” to come forward, saying the force had never ignored victims’ pleas or been careless in fulfilling their obligations.
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Railway families seek more money for move
Dozens of families living along the railway tracks in Banteay Meanchey province have been told they must be relocated as the authorities prepare to construct roads and renovate the line. Seventy-two families in Sisophon district’s Kbal Spean village were told they would need to move to make way for the development, which will link Phnom Penh with Poipet town on the Thailand-Cambodia border. Uo Mao, 47, said the local authorities had planned to demolish their houses at the end of the month. “People in the community agreed overall with the development plan, but we want more expenses paid for our moving costs,” she said.
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Australian Ministers Deny Collapse of Refugee Deal
Australia’s foreign minister on Monday insisted that a controversial refugee deal with Cambodia was alive and well, dismissing Australian news reports that efforts to resettle more refugees here from Nauru had collapsed. The first four people from Australia’s refugee camps on the South Pacific island arrived in Cambodia in June, after Phnom Penh signed a deal with Canberra to take in an unspecified number of refugees over four years in exchange for an additional AU$40 million (about $28.5 million) in aid.
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Court Denies Bail to Activists as More Protesters Head to Koh Kong
The Koh Kong Provincial Court on Monday denied bail to three jailed activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature who were charged last month with threatening to destroy barges operated by a sand dredging company, their lawyer said.
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Australia Says Deal to Send More Refugees to Cambodia Still On
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Monday denied a refugee deal with Cambodia had collapsed after Cambodian officials said it did not intend to accept any more refugees from a South Pacific detention center under an agreement. Australia has vowed to stop asylum seekers sailing from Indonesia and Sri Lanka and landing on its shores, instead intercepting boats and shifting the people to camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Australia and Cambodia agreed last September that some refugees from Nauru would be resettled in Cambodia in exchange for Australian aid, but only four have arrived since then.
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Husband Calls for Release of Wife Charged for Selling Baby
The husband of a woman who was charged on Thursday for selling their 11-month-old baby to a wealthy couple in Phnom Penh said Monday that he wanted his wife released, and was surprised that his complaint to police had led to her prosecution.
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Four Maids Return After Fleeing Bosses in Malaysia
Four male maids will return to Cambodia today after escaping from their employers and seeking assistance from the Cambodian Embassy in Malaysia, where they say they were forced to work overtime and were not paid, an official said Monday.
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Reporters Send Complaint Over Warning Letter
More than 30 journalists in Ratanakkiri province have written to the Club of Cambodian Journalists about what they described as a threatening letter sent by the provincial governor last week in which he said journalists should stop extorting money from illegal loggers.
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Chea defence mulling dropping presentation
The defence team for Nuon Chea is mulling over whether to bow out of document presentations following Wednesday’s surprise walkout in reaction to what they characterise as the latest in a long string of biased judgements. While the defence appeared in court to explain their actions on the day after they walked out, proceedings were again cut short by the judges’ decision to adjourn until Tuesday, by which time they are expected to make a decision on how to move forward. Speaking yesterday, Chea defender Victor Koppe said that he would attend Tuesday’s proceedings, as they are not document hearings, but the same couldn’t be said of court on Friday. “I will be there [Tuesday] without any problem. The document hearing will continue . . . on Friday and we will start listening to the prosecution and we will consider whether we will give a presentation”, he said.
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Map researcher threatened
A prominent researcher studying Cambodia’s border with Vietnam said yesterday that he had received numerous threats on Facebook amid the protracted and fiery debate surrounding the disputed frontier. Sok Touch, the head of the Royal Academy of Cambodia’s research team tasked with investigating border demarcation, said that while he has received public support for the process he and his researchers are undertaking, he has also suffered harassment and insults through Facebook and other mediums. “Since I’ve started work on the border research, there has been [a lot] of curses and criticism,” he said yesterday.
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Cambodia, Thailand to reduce border violence
As Cambodian and Thai authorities agreed to ease up on the use of violence against illegal border crossers into both countries, Thailand stopped short of pledging to refrain from shooting trespassers into the neighbouring kingdom. The agreement was made after a three-day meeting held in Bangkok that ended on Friday, and was chaired by Interior Minister Sar Kheng and Thai Interior Minister Anupong Paochinda. “Illegal migration [and] border crossing between the two countries will resolve with favour and understanding in accordance with both the international and national humanitarian and lawful procedures of each country,” a statement posted to the General Commissariat of National Police on Saturday said, adding that both nations agreed to continue to facilitate border crossing for seasonal workers.
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Thailand, Cambodia Meet Over Migrants, Railroad
In a wide-ranging meeting on border issues in Bangkok last week, Interior Minister Sar Kheng and his Thai counterpart agreed to work together to curb illegal migration and human trafficking, and discussed progress on a railroad connecting their two countries, a police official said Sunday.
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Boy’s disappearance ‘needs proper probe’
A major Cambodian rights group yesterday renewed calls for the government to launch a “proper investigation” into the disappearance of a teenager last seen wounded at a deadly strike in January last year. In a statement released to coincide with the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) urged the government to fulfill its “international obligation” to find out what happened to 16-year-old Khem Sophath. Sophath was reportedly last seen with a gunshot wound to his chest at a strike on Veng Sreng Boulevard, during which at least five people were killed by security forces.
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Railway Families File Separate Complaint Against ADB Bank
Another group of families living along Cambodia’s dilapidated railway tracks is filing a complaint with the compliance review panel of the Asian Development Bank, accusing the lender of failing to abide by its own resettlement policies.
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Police Arrest 22 Chinese Nationals Over VoIP Scam
Twenty-two Chinese nationals were arrested at a rented villa in Svay Rieng City on Saturday on suspicion of extorting money from people overseas using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, technology, police said Sunday.
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Thailand, Cambodia Meet Over Migrants, Railroad
In a wide-ranging meeting on border issues in Bangkok last week, Interior Minister Sar Kheng and his Thai counterpart agreed to work together to curb illegal migration and human trafficking, and discussed progress on a railroad connecting their two countries, a police official said Sunday.
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Protesters March in Cambodia to Demand Environmental Activists' Release
About 80 protesters marched in Cambodia’s southwestern Koh Kong province on Monday to demand the release of three activists detained earlier this month for interfering with sand-dredging operations blamed for local pollution and riverbank collapse, sources said. The protesters marched carrying banners along city streets to the provincial court, demanding that the court release the three and drop all charges against them, rights activist In Kongchit told RFA’s Khmer Service on Aug. 31. Authorities made no attempt to block the demonstration, In Kongchit—provincial coordinator for the Cambodian rights group Licadho—said.
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Police Arrest 22 Chinese Nationals Over VoIP Scam
Twenty-two Chinese nationals were arrested at a rented villa in Svay Rieng City on Saturday on suspicion of extorting money from people overseas using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, technology, police said Sunday.
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Jailed teen dies; rights group calls for probe
An ethnic Jarai prisoner in Ratanakkiri province has died in what a rights group suggested were suspicious circumstances after being sent to a local hospital complaining of dizziness and a stomach ache, officials said. Rochom P’Chet, aged 15, was charged with murder in June, and was pronounced dead at the provincial referral hospital at about 11:30am on Saturday. Cha Ta Ngang, vice chief of the prison, said that the boy had died on the way to receive treatment. “He got dizzy and we tried to send him to the hospital for help, but he passed away on the way,” he said. “He was only sent to the prison in June on murder charges, but his case hadn’t been heard yet.”
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Gov’t Urged to Investigate Disappearance of Teen Protester
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – A year and eight months have passed since the death of 16-year-old protester Khem Sophath, who was gunned down while protesting on January 3 at Veng Sreng Street. Despite the time that has passed, the government has not carried out a proper investigation into his death, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) said yesterday. Mr. Sophath’s body has still not been located, CCHR noted in a press release. Protests at Canadia Industrial Park on January 3 turned violent and Cambodian security personnel subsequently opened fire on the crowds. Mr. Sophath was one of at least four garment workers killed. Twenty-five more were injured. The bodies of the other workers were recovered, but Mr. Sophath’s was never found.
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