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Boeng Kak Land Deal Not Yet Sealed
The Singapore-listed developer who entered into a purchase agreement for 1.3 hectares of land at Boeng Kak lake – the site where thousands of families have been evicted to make room for development – has said the deal still needs legal approval before the sale can be completed.
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Garment Industry Strikes Flouting the Law, Factory Monitors Say
The number of strikes in the garment sector has tripled since 2011, and of the 180 strikes that took place at factories monitored by the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program over the past year, all of them flouted the Labor Law.
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Striking Workers Settle for 50 Percent of Their Pay Demands
About 400 garment workers from a factory that closed abruptly earlier this month agreed yesterday to stop protesting and blocking the road to Canadia Industrial Park in exchange for half the severance pay they are owed.
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More ‘Undesirables’ in City’s Sights
City Hall is preparing to launch a fresh round of street sweeps, hailing its recent controversial efforts to clear Phnom Penh of beggars, street sellers and homeless adults and children a success.
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Firms’ Ties to Gov’t ‘Fuel Land Disputes’
Officials and the courts are prevented from resolving land disputes because companies displacing poor Cambodians are tied to powerful members of the government, military and judiciary, civil society group said yesterday.
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After Petitioning Hun Sen, Couple Offered $10,000 for Land
A CPP lawmaker intervened in a long-running land dispute between villagers in Kompong Chhnang province and the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem last week, according to villagers, who said the parliamentarian, promised substantial compensation to two of the group’s most outspoken members.
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‘Anti-Union Bias’ in Factories
Discrimination against unions and incidents of garment factory managers interfering with freedom of association has slightly increased in the past year, a report from an International Labor Organization (ILO) factory monitoring group says.
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Junta to target Cambodian beggars
As Cambodian migrant workers continue spilling back into the country from Thailand, the junta announced yesterday that it will clear out its homeless and destitute in attempts to “address” the ongoing problem of mainly Cambodian beggars roaming the streets.
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Judges Reinstate KR Commander’s Lawyers
The Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Pre-Trial Chamber yesterday overturned a January decision that removed the team of lawyers representing Meas Muth, the former Khmer Rouge navy chief and a suspect in the government-opposed Case 003.
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Wage Raise Decision in Oct: Gov’t
The controversial matter of next year’s garment sector minimum wage will be finalized in October and put into effect on January 1, a Ministry of Labor committee decided yesterday.
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Unionists Face Embezzlement Trial
Phnom Penh Municipal Court is set to hear the civil case against Cambodia’s largest independent garment union’s top three leaders from a former member who alleges the trio embezzled more than $90,000.
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Cambodian PM Rejects Opposition Demand for Key NEC Reform
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he would not accept a key opposition proposal for members of the country's election body to be endorsed by a two-thirds majority in parliament.
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‘Pedophile Monk’ Faces Court
A monk who allegedly sexually assaulted three underage girls in Battambang town on Sunday will appear in court after the relatives of the girls filed a complaint to police.
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Workers Faint En Masse At Coat Factory in Bavet
Nearly 50 workers fainted on Saturday at a coat factory in the Tai Seng Special Economic Zone in Bavet City, Svay Rieng, a factory representative said yesterday.
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Life As a Brokered Wife
Barely able to make enough money to survive in her hometown, Sok Chenda picked up her passport and a few belongings last year and headed to the provincial capital of Kampong Cham.
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Garment Workers Continue Protest After Factory Owner Flees
About 400 garment workers whos lost their jobs when factory abruptly closed earlier this month blocked access to Cambodia Industrial Park on Saturday to demand full severance pay.
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Workers Win Seniority Pay
a six-month stand-off that eventually halted a box factory’s production ended on Friday, when managers of the factory in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district paid seniority bonuses to almost 150 former employees.
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Citizen-Led Media Gets New Blog
In a bid to highlight abuses in the workplace, an NGO today will officially launch a website and hotline, allowing people to post stories as citizen journalists.
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Boeng Kak Investor Dismisses Ethics in Name of Business
On June 25, the private firm buying 1.35 hectares in Phnom Penh’s contentious Boeng Kak lake neighborhood claimed, incredibly, to have no knowledge of the site’s internationally recognized land dispute (“Firm Buying Boeng Kak Lake Claims No Knowledge of Evictions,” June 26).
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Court Date for Dissident Accused of Incitement
AUS-based Cambodian dissident who has been labeled a terrorist by the government will face charges of incitement at Phnom Penh Municipal Court next month, he and his lawyer said yesterday.
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