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Ministry sets sights on blocking ’immoral wording’ from Kingdom’s browsers
The ministry of information is looking to China and for inspiration for a pilot program aimed at blocking “immoral content” online, including speech that attacks political parties, a ministry press adviser has said.
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Bitter Kratie Villagers Vow to Resume Protests in Land Dispute
Despite being awarded a social land concession, more than 300 families involved in protracted land distracted in Kratie province’s Snuol districe yesterday threatened to continue protesting in Phnom Penh after authorities on Saturday promised a better deal to another community in the same
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Union Leaders Charged Over Nationwide Protests
At least five of the country’s most prominent union leader have been charged in connection with massive garment sector strikes and demonstration in December and January and have been called to appear in court this month, according to court official and documents obtained yesterday
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Migrant Children Tell of Detention in Thailand
The children of Cambodian migrant workers detained in Thailand spend weeks at time in a squalid Bangkok detention center, where they face hunger, overcrowding and violence, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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Khun Sear disputant tells court land is his
A MAN embroiled in a long-running land dispute with Khun Sear Import Export Company was questioned yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
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After Attack, Protesters Demand Police Release Injured Teen
More than 100 people protested outside the Chbar Ampov district police station yesterday calling for the release of a 16-year-old they claimed was denied hospital treatment after being wounded by Vietnamese men accused of attacking a crowd of youths playing football on Sunday evening.
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Election group wants a more powerful NEC
An election reform lobby group has called for the ruling Cambodian People’s party and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to grant wide-ranging powers to a new election body.
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Land row vow sows doubts and hope
The parliamentary commission on human rights has promised villagers from four provinces embroiled in long-running land disputes that their problems wiil be solved in the next month, community representative and a ruling party lawmaker said yesterday.
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CNRP lawmaker says he’ll show up in court
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court yesterday agreed to postpone a meeting with opposition information department chief Meach Sovanara, who missed a scheduled meeting in which he was to answer questions regarding his alleged role in a violent protest in July, his lawyer said,
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Critics Blast Plan to Pit Troops Against Protesters
Rights workers yesterday questioned the Defense Ministry’s plan to recruit an additional 700 soldiers to help military police contend with demonstrations in Phnom Penh, saying the proposal raised the risk that excessive force would be used against peaceful protesters.
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Yakjin factory under review
SOUTH Korean garment giant Yakjin Trading Crop has engaged a top international labor right expert to conduct a review of its factories in Cambodia, one of which was a flashpoint during labor strikes earlier this year that saw dozens arrested and at least five people shot dead by authorities
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Anti-Eviction Activists Band Together at City Hall
More than 30 activists two communities impacted by land-grabbing demonstrated together in front of Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday to demand that authorities intervene in their case.
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KR Tribunal Appoints New Trial Chamber Judge
King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday formally appointed Austrian Judge Claudia Fenz to the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s five-person Trial Chamber
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Thousands Strike Over Pay at K Cham Garment Factory
More than 5,000 workers from a footwear factory in Kompong Cham province went on strike yesterday, calling on factory management increase their benefits.
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Thousands Strike Over Pay at K Cham Garment Factory
More than 5,000 workers from a footwear factory in Kompong Cham province went on strike yesterday, calling on factory management increase their benefits.
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ADB to Arrange Meeting About Railway Concerns
A Senior Asian Development Bank (ADB) offal promised yesterday to organize a meeting between the government and families affected by an ADB-funded railway rehabilitation project in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kok district.
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More China brides aided
Two more Cambodian women who were trafficked to China as brides are being assisted by officials at the Kingdom’s embassy in Beijing and will soon be repatriated, the government said yesterday.
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Strikers vow to continue protesting
Nearly 400 workers made a four-hour trek yesterday from their garment factory in Por Sen Chey district to Phnom Penh’s Ministry of Labor, where they demanded the government intervene in their dispute.
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Monks ‘face defrocking’ after protesters pour in
Two monks who invited scores of provincial land rights protesters info their pagoda in the capital have been threatened with defrocking the pagoda’s chief monk said yesterday
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Boeng Kak Protesters Egg Embassy Ex-Governor’s Photo
The never-innovative activists of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood added a little Yolk to their latest protest against the community’s forced evictions yesterday morning, egging both the Singaporean Embassy and photographs of former city Governor Kep Chukterma.
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