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Gov’t releases data on timber baron’s deal
Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “ waste wood” from their offices and from Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by the Post yesterday.
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Court Delays Trial of Monk, Dissident
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday delayed its sedition trial of Cambodian-American dissident Sourn Serey Ratha in order to give co-defendant and activist monk Loun Sovath time to return from abroad and defend himself in person
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Prey Lang Activists detain two loggers
Two illegal loggers were arrested by a community patrol in Prey Lang forest on Wednesday, the Prey Lang Community Network said yesterday.
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IDEA’s iconic leader faces dissent
Months after Vorn Pov was released from prison, a small number of members belonging to his independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association debated yesterday whether to re-elect him as leader.
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APLE defends work on case
Child rights groups Action Pour Les Enfants and International Justice Mission have said they carried out a detailed and impartial investigation into claims of sexual abuse before removing six young boys from their families against their parent’s wishes last week.
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Int’s judge resparks KRT bias debate
Question of judicial bias have long been dogged the Khmer Rough Tribunal, often as a matter of legal and academic debate. However, with the court set to begin hearing evidence of the Khmer Rough’s policy of forced marriage in the coming weeks, that debate may take on a distinctly personal tinge.
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Steer clear of protests, unionist warned again
Ath Thorn, head of Cambodia’s largest independent labor union, was placed under court supervision yesterday, the second such prohibitive order for the union leader
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Rule Changes Give Assembly President Broad New Power
National Assembly President Heng Samrin has given himself the power to deny access to the assembly compound, including the offices of all lawmakers, to anyone not employed by the government and has barred all private citizens from testifying before or sitting in on- as assembly commission meetings.
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Bunong Suspended Protests Until After Pchum Ben
Mondolkiri province, an ethnic Bunong community suspended its protests against the destruction of their ancestral land here yesterday after receiving assurances from provincial authorities that the issue would be resolved following the Pchum Ben holiday.
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Elderly Woman Loses Fight to Keep Land in Phnom Penh
A determined attempt by an elderly woman to hold onto a plot of land she says she has farmed since 1979 in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district proved futile yesterday morning, when police and security guards demarcated the property for development by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cousin Dy Proem.
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Court Places More Restriction on Union Leader
Ath Thorn, the head of the country’s largest independent union, was placed yesterday under judicial supervision by Phnom Penh Municipal Court a day after he joined demonstrations calling for a $177 monthly minimum wage for garment workers.
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‘Hell Life’: Prey Speu’s history of oppression
Earlier this month, a group of homeless people were rounded up from the streets of Phnom Penh and taken to a detention center they said offered meager, uncomfortable conditions and no access to a bathroom.
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Man Fund pledges cash for AFESIP
A new organization has been created under the name of disgraced sex-trafficking activist Somaly Mam, which she says it will raise money for a local NGO she founded that lost funding in the wake of allegation that key parts of her life stories were fabricated
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Unions Stage Lunchtime Campaign for $177 Wage
Group of garment workers poured out of factories in Phnom Penh and around the country yesterday to demand a living monthly minimum wage of $177 for the industry, joined by supporter picketing outside embassies and brand shop in Australia and Europe.
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Police Release Unionists After Workers Surround District Office
Two union representatives were arrested and detained for several hours in Prey Veng province yesterday as a nearly weeklong strike for better working conditions and bonuses continued at the Chinese-owned Komchay Mear Trading factory, police and unionists said.
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Migrant Workers Get Refund After Lock-In Ordeal
Eight migrant workers who say they were duped out of $300 each by a Phnom Penh recruitment agency were refunded yesterday after protesting outside the company’s office and late being locked inside
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Unions upping pressure on buyers in $177 minimum wage push
Metres away from where military authorities fatally fire automatic weapons at demonstrators on Veng Sreng Boulevard during a nationwide strike in January, some 500 garment workers gathered at Canadia Industrial Park yesterday, calling out the clothing brand that unions say must ensure workers a living wage
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Soldier Faces Arrest for Shooting Villager
Mondolkiri province, a soldier who wounded an ethnic Bunong man with shrapnel thrown up by a shot from his assault rifle has not returned to the rubber plantation where he works as a guard and will be punished according to the law, the district governor told a group of angry locals yesterday
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Recruiters ‘cheated us’
Some 34 workers protested yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district in front of a work agency they accuse of sending them to Thailand with false job promises despite having paid a hefty finder’s fee.
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Fired Factory Workers Refuse Severance, Vow More Protests
More than 5,000 employees of the Juhui Footwear Factory in Kompong Cham province who were fired on Tuesday after joining strike to demand bonus pay and better benefits yesterday rejected their severance packages and vowed to continue protesting.
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