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Developer Ordered to Halt Work on Dispute Land
The governor of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district yesterday ordered the private firm heading a $3-billoin real estate project on the peninsula to temporarily stop pumping sand onto land being contested by about 40 local families, but urged the families to reconsider the compensation on offer.
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Murderous Lovers Get 15 Years
A man and his mistress who plotted to brutally murder the man’s wife and make off with thousands of dollars in cash and jewellery have been sentenced to 15 years for murder.
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Cambodian Worker Return to Thailand After Exodus
Nearly 10,000 Cambodian have returned to jobs in Thailand after fleeing en masse last month, officials said yesterday, as the two countries agreed to make it easier for migrants to obtain work permits.
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Deputy in Court Over Village Chief’s Murder
A deputy village chief from the capital’s Por Senchey district faced trial at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday over allegations that he murdered his superior in a bitter struggle for power.
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Cyclo Drivers Struggle as Demand Dwindles
When men Chan started out as a cyclo driver in Phnom Penh in 1966, his services were in demand and his salary was modest but adequate.
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Cambodia, China Drafting Agreement to Curb Bride Trafficking
Cambodia and China are drafting a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to stamp out the exploitative trade of Cambodian women to China, where there have been increasing reports of women being abused by their Chinese husbands and sold into the sex trade.
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Security Guards Accused of Beating
Security guards working for a firm building a resort in Koh Kong province beat a woman who was trying to farm the land from which she had been evicted, she has told police.
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Delay Sesan Dam: villagers
Villagers who will be displaced if the controversial Lower Sesan II dam is built called on the developers yesterday to postpone construction for five years, allowing time for a comprehensive resettlement scheme to be devised.
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Acid Victim Leaves Hospital
After surviving a brutal acid attack in April that has required five surgeries, 41-year-old Hak Ay was discharged from Phnom Penh’s Children’s Surgical Center (CSC) yesterday.
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Man Who Threatened to Kill Children Arrested
A 35-year-old man was arrested Monday in Battambang province’s Mong Russei district for allegedly kidnapping two children and threatening to kill them unless their parents transferred about $125 to an account via mobile payment company Wing, police said yesterday.
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Village Leader Accused Of Murdering Chief
The deputy chief of Trapaing Anchanh village appeared in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, accused of murdering the village’s chief in 2012.
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B Keila Solution Talks Set
A public forum will be held next month to find a solution to the Borei Keila housing crisis, city officials said yesterday.
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Ethnic Activists Targets of Arrest, Threats: NGO
More than 100 ethnic minority activists trying to protect community forests have been arrested, jailed, threatened and subjected to violence so far this, a major local rights group has said.
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Bunong Vow To Act Against M’kiri Loggers
Ethnic Bunong in Mondolkiri province’s Sen Monorom City said yesterday that they would no longer cooperate with local officials in fighting illegal logging and that they would begin to confiscate loggers’ equipment and burn illicit timber themselves.
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Chroy Changva Locals Threaten OCIC Pipeline
District security guards were deployed to Chroy Changva peninsula yesterday to intercept villagers who were ready to smash a pipe that has been pumping sand onto their land for the past year.
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Cambodia: UN Special Rapporteur to discuss controversial judicial reform laws at IBAHRI Phnom Penh press conference
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, will speak at a high-level International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) press conference on draft judicial reform laws in Cambodia on Friday 4 July 2014, 10h00 – 11h30, at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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Garment Wage Plan Set; Some Unions Hold Out
The Labor Advisory Committee (LAC) yesterday approved a detailed schedule leading up to a pay raise for the country’s restive garment sector by January 2015, though a few unions continued to hold out for a raise in October and said protests might resume if they were refused.
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B’bang Monk Arrested, Defrocked for Alleged Sexual Assault
A monk in Battambang province was arrested and defrocked on Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting three young girls and two boys, provincial anti-trafficking police said yesterday.
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NGOs Say Draft Laws are ‘Unconstitutional’
In a final bid to block three controversial draft judiciary laws that have sped through the National Assembly and Senate, civil society organizations have urged the constitutional Council to declare the laws unconstitutional.
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Borei Keila Home Attack Injures One
A displaced woman from the Borei Keila community is in a serious condition in hospital after being attacked with a knife in a home invasion.
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