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Poipet City Taxi driver protest new checkpoint
Dozens of taxi drivers in Poipet City protested yesterday against the creation of new checkpoint where they are forced to pay costly bribes to transport goods that have been smuggled across the border from Thailand.The group blocked National Road 5 in Banteay Meanchey province for an hour Monday morning to express their opposition to the addition of a fifth checkpoint on the highway in the border town’s Nimit commune, according to Din Puthy, president of the Cambodian Association for Informal Economy Development, which is representing the taxi drivers.
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Villagers losing land march to PM’s house
A group of 30 protesters from a community next to Phnom Penh International airport took to the street Near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house yesterday seeking land tittles and compensation for property they are set to lose in the airport’s expansion.After being blocked by riot police from marching up to Mr. Hun Sen’s house, the protesters gathered near Wat Botum pagoda, where they prayed to local spirits and held up signs denouncing their evictions.
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Kompong Cham Court released five arrested at strike protest
The Kompong Cham Provincial court yesterday released five of the 10 people who were arrested Saturday after the clashes between police and about 1000 sacked workers from thE Taiwanese-owned Juhui Footwear factory.Cambodian Labor Confederation legal officer Kim Socheat, who is representing the 10 people arrested at the Choeung Prey district factory, said that the release came after the court did not find enough proof against the five, who include workers, truck drivers and union officials.
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Evictees sign payout deal they can’t read, without lawyer
Some of the families in a protracted land dispute with a pair of Thai-owned sugar plantations in Hoh Kong province say they were pressured over the weekend into signing compensation deals with the firms they could not read, because they were written in Thai, and without their lawyer present.Rights groups say more than 400 families have lost their homes or farms since the plantations—both majority owned by Thailand’s KSL—were set up in 2006 and been driven into debt, often having to pull their children out of school.
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Ten Arrested After Clash at Shoe Factory
Nearly two months of mounting tensions between workers and management at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Kompong Cham province came to a head on Saturday as employees clashed with police, resulting in the arrest of 10 people and dozens of injuries, authorities said yesterday.The dispute began on September 1, when more than 5,000 workers at the Juhui Footwear factory in Choeung Prey district went on strike demanding bonus pay and other benefits.
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Labor group press Ministry on new union regulation rules
About 100 workers representing eight trade unions and labor associations rallied in front of the Ministry of Labor yesterday demanding that the government relax registration requirements that they say are being used to stifle efforts to increase their membership.
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Workers Blockade Highway in protest of pay and condition
Thousands of worker from the Grand Twins International garment factory – one of two companies listed on the Cambodia Stock Exchange – blocked a major highway leading out of Phnom Penh on Friday morning to protest for better working conditions and higher wages.More than 5,000 workers at the factory have been striking since Monday to call for management to address 16 demands including a monthly $15 accommodation allowance and an end to forced overtime.
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One million hectares reclassified, gov’t says
More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has claimed.
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Police, garment workers in violent confrontation in Kampong Cham
After a garment factory clash this weekend that was the most violence since deadly protests in January, police in Kampong Cham province are holding 10 people, several of whom were not involved , according to unionists and witnesses.
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Political activist charged with international violence
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Saturday charged political activist Ouk Pich Samnang with intentional violence, causing damage to public property and obstructing the work of authorities after he drove his tuk-tuk through a security barricade near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house during a protest last week.
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Spending increased 10.8 pct in budget
Cambodia’s new budget for the coming fiscal year is nearly $4 billion, a 10.8 percent increase in spending from 2014, according to a government statement
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Ten Dissidents Arrested for plot to incite violence
Ten members of the Khmer National Liberation Front, a group of dissidents highly critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his close Vietnamese, were arrested over the last two days in Phnom Penh for allegedly plotting to incite violence, according to police.The group had planned to lead a protest in front of the Vietnamese Embassy to coincide with Thursday’s anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, demanding that “Vietnam and Hun Sen’s regime… respect the Paris Peace Agreement,” according to an email from the group’s leader, Sam Serey, who lives in Denmark.
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Pay Teachers on time, official told
Late payments that teachers have long criticized have caught attention of Cambodia’s acting Minister of Education, who has instructed provincial education department to get their acts together.In a letter on Tuesday, acting minister Pin Chamnan told heads of education departments in each of the Kingdom’s 25 provinces that delayed payments of teachers’ bonuses and overtime work can severely impact their lives. “The late payments affect most teachers’ livelihoods,” the letter reads.“The ministry urges all department directors to distribute wages on time for bonuses, and especially payments for extra sessions.”
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Division Surface on Anniversary of Peace Accord
On the 23rd anniversary of the day Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Prime Minister Hun Sen resolved to come together to end Cambodia’s civil war, celebration yesterday turned into an exhibition of the endurance of the political division forged during the two decades of conflict.Prince Sihanouk and Mr. Hun Sen led their warring factions to sign the Paris Peace Agreements on October 23, 1991, paving the way for the dissolution of the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom Penh and the beginning of a liberal democracy with the U.N.-organized elections of 1993.
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Dissident group sees 10 arrested
Authorities arrested 10 members of anti-government Khmer National Liberation Front on Wednesday night and yesterday morning after they were seen publicly distributing leaflets in Phnom Penh calling Cambodians to protests in front of the Vietnamese Embassy. The Denmark-based dissident group is considered a terrorist organisation by the government. According to military police spokesman Kheng Tito, the men had distributed hundreds of pamphlets urging people to join an anti-Vietnam demonstration yesterday to coincide with the anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements.
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Ten Dissidents Arrested for plot to incite violence
Ten members of the Khmer National Liberation Front, a group of dissidents highly critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his close Vietnamese, were arrested over the last two days in Phnom Penh for allegedly plotting to incite violence, according to police.The group had planned to lead a protest in front of the Vietnamese Embassy to coincide with Thursday’s anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords, demanding that “Vietnam and Hun Sen’s regime… respect the Paris Peace Agreement,” according to an email from the group’s leader, Sam Serey, who lives in Denmark.
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Fishermen rescued in Indonesia
Twenty Cambodian fishermen allegedly tricked into illegally working on Thai fishing boats were rescued last month and are awaiting return, the Foreign Affair Ministry said yesterday.
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Chhay to purge the assembly of ghost
Senior opposition lawmaker Son Chhay has formally requested that the entire staff list of the National Assembly’s more than 1,000 strong secretariat be turned over him for investigation as part of bid to root out ghost worker and nepotistic appointment. As part of his one-man crusade to clean up parliament, Chhay has also accused a senior secretariat official of appointing more than 20 members of his own family to paid positions on assembly staff and asked for a probe.
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Japanese election experts meet with CPP and CNRP officials
Making good on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge last year to help Cambodia reform its electoral system, a panel of election expert from Japan met with CPP and CNRP officials yesterday to present the finding of their recent study into the system.Led by Japanese Ambassador Yuji Kumamaru, the team of election experts—whose help was pledged to Prime Minister Hun Sen during a visit by Mr. Abe in November—held a meeting with delegations from the CPP and CNRP early Wednesday morning before later meeting separately with both parties.
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Wage Talks remain in deadlock
The third day of negotiations between members of a Working group trying to reach a consensus on the minimum monthly wage remained stagnant yesterday, as manufacturer refused to budge from their $110 offer.Although members of the government delegation to the working group – also made up of factory and union representatives – urged employers to at least consider $120, they flatly refused, said Collective Union of Movement of Workers president Pav Sina.
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