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Right to remain silent
Opposition lawmakers and transparency groups have slammed a recent Council of Ministers directive ordering government employees to deny access to parliamentary commissions investigating corruption, saying it severely undermines democracy.
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Accountable, Transparent NGOs Will Only Gain From New Law
After the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on 23 October 1991, Cambodia adopted multi-party elections as a means for political parties to compete for government positions. Democratic values and principles have also gradually taken root in society. As a result, civil society organizations have sprung up like mushrooms, working on a wide range of political, social, economic and cultural issues.
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ELC land should go to villagers: governor
The governor of Kratie province this week sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries requesting the reallocation of more than 3,000 hectares of economic land concession (ELC) property to villagers.
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Union Law ‘close to finished’
Ministry of Labour officials said this week that a controversial draft trade union law is “90 per cent” complete and they are now waiting for inter-ministerial review of the language before they submit it for approval.
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Two Injured in Shooting In Sand-Dredging Dispute
Police said Thursday that a land dispute in Kampot province’s Toek Chhou district was likely the motive for a drive-by shooting in the district on Wednesday that left two men with multiple gunshot wounds.
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Gov’t, European Union Agree to First Phase of Deal for Evictees
The European Union says the Cambodian government has agreed to the first part of a comprehensive plan they have been wrangling over for more than a year to properly compensate thousands of families that have lost land to sugarcane plantations.
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Enslaved Fishermen Return From Indonesia
A group of 230 fishermen who had been trapped in Indonesia returned to Cambodia on Thursday, many of them after being released from slavery on Thai-captained fishing vessels.
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Ranariddh weighs in on border, NGO law
Royalist party leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh has finally waded into the disputes over the demarcation of the Cambodia-Vietnam border and a controversial draft law on NGOs and associations.
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Defamation Suit Reaches Human Rights Advocate
A lawyer for prominent rights advocate Ny Chakrya on Wednesday confirmed that she had received a lawsuit against her client from a pair of court officials in Siem Reap province who accuse him of defamation and other crimes.
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CNRP Suggests Legal Action if Vietnam Ignores Diplomatic Notes
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Wednesday said the government should bring the issue of Vietnamese incursions into Cambodian territory before an international court if its recent diplomatic notes to Vietnam demanding it respect Cambodia’s sovereignty go ignored.
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Mitr Phol families petition for land
Villagers who have lost their land first to a Thai sugar company supplying Coca-Cola and then to a military unit in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samroang district yesterday petitioned the Agriculture Ministry to ask for it back.
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More Boys Accuse Frenchman, German of Abuse
Thirteen boys have come forward accusing a French national of sexually abusing them in Kandal province, police said Wednesday.
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Over 200 Fishermen to Return From Indonesia on Charter Airliner
More than 200 Cambodian fishermen trapped in Indonesia were scheduled to be returned home Thursday morning on a charter Boeing 737 airliner following the intervention of Indonesia’s Fisheries Ministry and Cambodian diplomats in Jakarta.
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Kingdom slips in peace index
Despite slipping five places in the Global Peace Index (GPI) in the past 12 months due to high rates of violent crime and military spending, Cambodia has made strides in peace efforts, experts said yesterday.
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HRW official faces City Hall blacklist
Phnom Penh has joined the chorus of outrage over a statement penned by Human Rights Watch’s Brad Adams in the wake of former Senate president Chea Sim’s death.
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Evictees Ask Gov’t for Return Of Abandoned Thai Plantations
A half-dozen villagers from Oddar Meanchey province traveled to Phnom Penh on Wednesday to ask the highest levels of government to return the farmland that thousands of families say they had stolen from them by a trio of Thai-owned sugarcane plantations.
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Draft Law Sets Legal Drinking Age at 21, Highest in Region
The Health Ministry has drafted Cambodia’s first-ever law to control the sale and consumption of alcohol, which imposes a minimum legal drinking age of 21 and would fine retailers who sell liquor to anyone underage.
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CNRP’s Sokha calls for NGO legislation delay
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha yesterday weighed in on debates over the controversial draft NGO law, calling for its adoption to be postponed.
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Woman Who Threw Acid on Pregnant Sister Released
A woman who doused her pregnant teenage sister with diluted battery acid in retaliation for an affair the victim was having with the suspect’s husband was on Wednesday fined and released following a snap trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, a court official said.
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Kem Sokha Calls for Inclusive Debate on NGO Law
CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha met with local civil society groups Wednesday to discuss their concerns over the much-criticized draft NGO law, which was approved by the Council of Ministers on June 5 and is now in the hands of parliament.
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