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‘Solvable Problems’ Focus of Fainting Review
Amid reports of increased fainting incidents in Cambodia’s garment sector, workers, employers and government officials gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for a roundtable discussion on the issue.
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Delay on Maid Deal: Ministry
The Ministry of Labor plans to delay signing off on controversial agreement to reopen a pipeline of Cambodian maids to Malaysia until a deal is reached on a second agreement regarding other migrant workers, a ministry official said yesterday.
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Factories Ask Gov’t to Punish Strike Leaders
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) over the weekend released a statement condemning an ongoing strike at a Kompong Chhnang garment factory and urging authorities to “punish the perpetrators.”
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In Final Report, UN Envoy Sees Progress on Human Rights
Despite a series of violent clashes in which government forces shot dead seven people over the course of the last year, the human rights situation in the country is heading in a positive direction, U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi said in his final report on Cambodia.
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Villagers Petition Against Allegedly Corrupt New Village Chief
About 100 families from a village in Kompong Cham province’s Prey Chhor district filed a petition with their commune chief last week to protest the appointment of a man accused of pilfering fish as their village chief.
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Gov’t Tears Down Bungalow
A government decision to tear down a bungalow on Preah Sihanouk province’s Otres 1 beach on Saturday has sparked fear among some of the area’s business owners that their establishments could face a similar fate.
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Villagers Pushed Back From Hun Sen’s House
About 70 residents from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district were blocked on Saturday from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh villa, where they planned to appeal for support in a long-running land dispute.
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In Final Report, UN Envoy Sees Progress on Human Rights
Despite a series of violent clashes in which government forces shot dead seven people over the course of the last year, the human rights situation in the country is heading in a positive direction, U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi said in his final report on Cambodia.
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The Calm Before the Strife
The United Nations in Cambodia has registered a sharp rise in the number of forced evictions in rural areas over the past year, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Surya Subedi has said in a report.
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Stranded Migrants on Their Way Home
To get his teenage daughter and niece on a plane yesterday after 10 months of alleged abuse and forced marriages in China, Kim Vicheat said he had to bury his family in debt because the Cambodian consulate refused to fund their repatriation.
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Hun Sen in New Push to Tackle Land Crisis But NGOs Call for Total Review
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has set up an inter-ministerial panel to tackle the worsening problem of land grabs in the country but non-governmental organizations say his own policies are fueling the crisis and need urgent revamp.
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Researchers Attempt to Ease Racial Tensions
When a Vietnamese man was killed by a mob in Phnom Penh following a traffic accident earlier this year, it highlighted growing tensions between ethnic Khmer and Vietnamese populations.
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Hun Sen looks to US to justify use of force
Prime Minister Hun Sen has compared Cambodia’s deadly government crackdowns favourably with attempts in the United States to quell days of unrest following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, according to The Phnom Penh Post.
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Parties Promise KDC Solutions
Lawmakers from both the ruling party and the opposition yesterday met with and promised Kampong Chhnang villagers they would seek a solution in their 12-year-long land dispute with KDC International.
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Prime Minister Calls Land Dispute Critic a ‘Stupid Boy’
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday fired back at an unnamed NGO official who questioned his claim to not have known about a Kratie province land dispute until recently, calling the official “a stupid, defiant boy”.
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Refugee House Hunting
High-level bureaucrats from Australia have visited several sites in Cambodia over the past two months to view properties where refugees from its overseas detention center on Nauru could be relocating, the Post has learned.
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Lawmaker Urges Land Dispute Villagers to Go Home
A group of 50 villagers who arrived in Phnom Penh last week to petition embassies and government officials about their land dispute with a firm owned by a minister’s wife say that their CPP representative in the National Assembly visited them yesterday and asked them to leave the capital and go home.
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Migrant Workers ‘Abandoned’
Nearly 200 Cambodian migrant workers, who were scammed by their broker and then abandoned south of Bangkok earlier this week, are among the latest victims falling between the cracks of an ill-defined labor registration system, according to rights experts.
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Villagers ‘Arrested’ Over Land Row
Three people locked in a land dispute with a military police officer in Svay Rieng province were yesterday arrested at their homes, accused of destroying property, a villager said.
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PM Fuming at ‘Rude’ NGOs
After a stern public reprimand of his underlings on Monday for failing to resolve the country’s myriad land disputes, Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at NGO monitors yesterday for questioning his professed lack of knowledge about certain dispute.
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