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Call for Sesan 2 logging halt
Villagers who will be displaced by the $800-million Lower Sesan II hydropower dam in northeastern Cambodia have called for the clear demarcation of the reservoir zone to prevent rampant illegal logging. A significant proportion of the villagers from Stung Treng province’s Srekor commune have declined compensation from the dam builder, Hydro Power Lower Sesan 2 Co, because they deemed the resettlement sites on offer unsuitable for farming.
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NGO law in crosshairs
Despite the deployment of law enforcement officials across the capital in a bid to halt the demonstration, activists yesterday marched as promised to the National Assembly to protest the looming adoption of highly controversial union and NGO laws. Starting at about 8am, hundreds of land activists, environmentalists, monks, civil society members and ordinary citizens gathered at four starting points: the Niroth pagoda in Chbar Ampov commune, Wat Chak Angre Leu, the 7 January flyover and the French Embassy.
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Police say massage biz offered sex with children
A husband and wife were arrested on Monday with police alleging their Phnom Penh massage parlour was a brothel offering sex with underage girls. Toch Bros, 52, and Young Thoun, 36, are being questioned by anti-human trafficking police, following a raid at their business in the capital’s Chamkarmon district on Monday night.
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Parties Meet Over Commune Election Law
Officials from the CPP and CNRP met Tuesday at the National Assembly to discuss making changes to the Law on Commune Council Elections before the next poll in February 2017.
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Assembly Passes 2013 Budget Despite Opposition of CNRP
Sixty-seven CPP lawmakers on Monday approved the government’s revenues and expenditures from 2013 despite the protest of 43 opposition CNRP lawmakers, who said reported revenues were inordinately low and called on the government to carry out a transparent audit.
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Factory Says Not Responsible For Protesting Workers’ Injuries
A lawyer for a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district, where four women were injured last week when a truck driver slammed into a group of protesters, said Monday the factory was not responsible because the workers had thrown themselves in front of the speeding vehicle.
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Budget review under fire
The first chapter of a review of the 2013 budget was approved over the heads of opposition lawmakers at the National Assembly yesterday, in spite of a host of alleged discrepancies between the budget and the government’s actual expenditures and revenue, an opposition lawmaker said.
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Gov’t to Stop March Against NGO Law by ‘Any Means’
NGOs on Monday vowed to press ahead with a protest march through Phnom Penh on Tuesday against a draft law that threatens to rein in the country’s non-government groups and associations despite City Hall’s threat to stop them by “any means.”
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Workers Faint at Factory Due to ‘Unidentified Fumes’
About 20 workers at an apparel factory in Kandal province fell unconscious Monday, police said.
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Committee to receive Thailand deportees
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities confirmed yesterday that they are creating a committee that will seek to help illegal Cambodian migrant workers expelled from Thailand land get back on their feet in Cambodia.
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Rapist, Accomplices Jailed in Bubble-Tea Case
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced a man and two accomplices to 10 and five years in prison, respectively, for their roles in the drugging and raping of a 14-year-old girl last year.
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Chinese, Local Injured in Land Dispute Clash
At least two people were injured on Friday when four employees of the Chinese-owned Hameniven Investment company clashed with villagers in Tbong Khmum province over a disputed plot of land, police said Sunday.
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Boeng Kak Factions Brawl Over Police Base
The once unified fight of the Boeng Kak lake community against their forced eviction visibly fractured over the weekend, as factions within the community accused each other of literally casting the first stone in a brawl that broke out Saturday over a new military police base being built in their neighborhood.
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World Bank ‘Feature Story’ Sings Praises of Criticized Project
Following the release of a damning report on the failures of a donor-funded project to turn some of Cambodia’s poorest families into prospering landowners, the World Bank on Friday published its own story singing the scheme’s praises.
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Chinese, Local Injured in Land Dispute Clash
At least two people were injured on Friday when four employees of the Chinese-owned Hameniven Investment company clashed with villagers in Tbong Khmum province over a disputed plot of land, police said Sunday.
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Rainsy: CNRP Now Has Vietnam Border Map
The CNRP is now in possession of the constitutionally mandated map of the Cambodia-Vietnam border and will soon start using it with GPS technology to confirm whether border posts have been correctly placed along the 1,228-km frontier, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Sunday.
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Hundreds Protest Against Draft NGO Law
NGOs brought about 300 people together in front of the National Assembly on Sunday to protest the pending passage of a law that would force all non-government groups and associations in the country to register and file regular reports with the state.
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Workers Faint En Masse At Coat Factory in Bavet
Nearly 50 workers fainted on Saturday at a coat factory in the Tai Seng Special Economic Zone in Bavet City, Svay Rieng, a factory representative said Sunday.
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Factory Administrator Beaten in Protest Brawl
An administrative assistant at the Win Cam factory in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district was beaten by angry workers on Friday when he tried to take video of a protest for better pay.
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Family Convicted of ‘Violence’ Over Land Scuffle
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday convicted a couple and their daughter of using violence against a property owner, although the plaintiff dropped his complaint against them last month.
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