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Tea Banh to Meet With Firm in Land Dispute
During a five-day state visit to China that starts today, Defense Minister Tea Banh will meet with officials from the Union Development Group, a Chinese firm that has evicted hundreds of families to make way for its tourism development in Koh Kong province.
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Cambodia: Withdraw LANGO and ensure genuine civil society participation
(Geneva) - The draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) before Cambodia’s National Assembly serves only to unnecessarily restrict the work of civil society in the country, said the International Service for Human Rights. ISHR joined a global civil society calls for the immediate withdrawal of the draft law, which is likely to be scheduled for a vote at the National Assembly on 10 July.
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CNRP activists arrested over Siem Reap protest
Two opposition activists in Siem Reap’s Bakong district were arrested yesterday on accusations of inciting villagers to protest a new committee to support boating tourism. The two – Hong Nak and Choun Sek – live in Meanchey commune and are themselves involved in the boat tour sector. Heng Choa Say, a Bakong district councilman from the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said yesterday that more than 20 police were dispatched to arrest Hong Nak and Choun Sek, claiming they did so without a warrant.
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CNRP shares LANGO tweaks
The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday presented civil society representatives with its proposed amendments to the highly controversial draft NGO law, as a raft of organisations once again called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to scrap the legislation. The action came just days before the draft Law on Associations and Non Governmental Organisations (LANGO) is reportedly scheduled to be voted on by the National Assembly.
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Minor Clash during Anti-LANGO Rally
On 07 July 2015, while protesters attempted to rally around the National Assembly, a small clash between anti-LANGO protesters and governmental security forces erupted around 11am. As part of a campaign against the adoption of the draft law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO), the protesters – around 500 people including monks, staffs of association and NGOs, unionists, youths, and communities’ members – initially gathered at the gate of the Embassy of Russia and then marched towards the parliament.
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NGO Director Went to VN Border to See Incursions
Phen Bunthoeun, the NGO director who was arrested and detained overnight by Vietnamese authorities for leading about 40 students to visit a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province on Saturday, admitted Monday that he had gone there to inspect alleged border violations. Mr. Bunthoeun, who heads two small NGOs that advocate for children’s rights and educate students planning to work on Vietnamese farms, claimed after his release Sunday that he was beaten and arrested after leading a trip to see Vietnamese rice and the “situation” at the border.
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Guard Arrested for Abusing 13-Year-Old Girl
A man was arrested in Kandal province on Saturday for sexually abusing his 13-year-old neighbor, whom he twice lured into his home in Ang Snuol district with small amounts of cash, police said Thursday.
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NGO Director Arrested by Vietnamese Authorities
A Cambodian NGO director who on Saturday took about 40 of his primary- and high-school students on a trip to a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province was beaten by Vietnamese civilians and imprisoned overnight, officials said Sunday.
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Group Claims Suit Against Rights Worker Is Intimidation
PHNOM PENH—The international watchdog Frontline Defenders has called on Cambodian authorities to drop a defamation lawsuit against a prominent human rights worker. Ny Chakrya, head of legal assistance for the rights group Adhoc, is facing a suit filed by two court officials in Siem Reap province last month, after he spoke to local media about a land dispute there. Under Cambodian law, defamation is considered a criminal act, punishable by jail time and fines. Critics of the law say it allows for retributive lawsuits by officials who may feel slighted by public criticism.
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Australia Pushing to Send More Refugees: Group
A month after the first four refugees arrived in Cambodia under a controversial resettlement scheme the government signed with Australia last year, immigration officers on the South Pacific island of Nauru are ratcheting up efforts to convince more refugees to join them, according to a rights group.
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Squatters Trample “Social Land Concessionâ€
TECHO APHIVAT, Kampot (Khmer Times) – For each of the 240 retired soldiers, the government built a sturdy wooden house on stilts, complete with a green metal roof. Then, before the government could mark out one hectare farm lots for each veteran, this “Social Land Concession” went off track. Outsiders started moving in, setting up improvised huts and grabbing farmland for themselves. It was 2013, and the government did not want land conflicts in an election year.
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Sesan families report illness
Villagers living downstream from the controversial Lower Sesan II hydropower project have claimed that they contracted unusual skin ailments causing large black spots on their bodies after the firm building the dam drained industrial waste into a river they use for bathing. Cambodia’s Royal Group, a major shareholder in the Hydro Lower Sesan 2 Company, which is building the dam, has denied the connection.
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GMAC to create new training institute
he Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has begun seeking technical advisors to assist in the creation of a Cambodia Garment Training Institute. After receiving an approximately $3 million loan from French development body, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), GMAC has begun advertising for advisors who could help formulate curricula for students looking to either break into or receive additional education in the garment business, said GMAC secretary general Ken Loo.
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Gov’t Says Debate is Open, but NGOs Boycott LANGO Workshop
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – The human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Licado and Adhoc both say they will not attend Wednesday’s consultation workshop on the controversial draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO) hosted by the National Assembly. They believe the meeting will not be an authentic discussion of the law with the potential for change. However, Cambodia’s Interior Minister said to Khmer Times on Saturday, “We are still open to discussion and debate about the draft (law).” Minister Sar Kheng was at the US Embassy for a July 4th ceremony. At that event, US Ambassador William Todd declared that a healthy civil society is fundamental to Cambodia’s future.
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Registration open for LANGO meet
The National Assembly has announced that members of the public hoping to participate in the consultation regarding Cambodia’s contentious draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) will have until Tuesday to register. In a letter dated Friday and signed by Assembly Secretary General Leng Penh Long, several commissions will hold a consultative workshop on the LANGO this Wednesday.
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Court Denies Appeal for Rights Worker in Death Threat Case
The Appeal Court on Friday upheld a Phnom Penh Municipal Court decision to throw out the case of an NGO staffer who claims his life was threatened by security guards working for property magnate Khun Sear at a disputed site in Tuol Kok district. Vann Sophath, a land reform project coordinator with the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said men wielding axes and cleavers threatened to kill him in May 2014 during his visit to the home of a family that had endured months of threats and intimidation after refusing to make way for a development project.
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Spat Between Lawmakers Continues
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun wrote to National Assembly President Heng Samrin on Thursday to complain that CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An broke the parliament’s rules by attempting to be interviewed while Mr. Vun himself was being interviewed.
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Khmer Rouge Leaders Begin Appeal Against Guilty Verdicts
Appeal hearings began Thursday in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s first case against senior regime leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, who are attempting to have their life sentences for crimes against humanity overturned.
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Factory Agrees to Pay Wages to Former Workers
A South Korean-owned garment factory bowed to union pressure Thursday and agreed to pay its former workers wages they are owed, following a meeting with the Ministry of Labor.
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Four factories see 118 faintings
More than 100 workers across four garment factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Takeo provinces fainted yesterday. National Social Security Fund (NSSF) officials said 45 workers at C N Prosperous Garment (Cambodia) Co Ltd in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district fainted yesterday, after more than 90 workers there fainted on Tuesday.
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