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Strike Justified, Suppression Not, Experts Say
Garment workers’ calls for a $160 minimum wage are justified and should be honored, a new report by an international team of academics and labor experts has found.
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Twelve in jail over extortion
Twelve men, all Taiwanese nationals, were arrested in Phnom Penh yesterday, accused of using voice over internet protocol (VOIP) technology to export money form victims in China and Taiwan police said
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Phnom Penh Governor Tells Officials to “Fix Frustrated Peopleâ€
The Phnom Penh governor yesterday told city officials to halt corruption and work harder to provide public services in an effort to restore confidence among the people who were so frustrated with the ruling party that they voted for the opposition CNRP in last year’s national election.
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Twelve Chinese Arrested For Telephone Fraud
Twelve Chinese nations were arrested on Monday in Phnom Penh for their alleged involvement in a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone extortion scheme, police said yesterday.
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Man Stabs Himself Before Police Arrest Kim for Child Sex Offenses
A 70-year-old Cambodian national stabbed himself multiple times with a pocketknife on Sunday in a rented room in Siem Reap City as police arrived at his guesthouse to arrest him for alleged child sex offenses, police said yesterday.
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Arrest over months-old baby death
A woman accused of murdering a one-year-old child by dousing him with petrol and setting him alight in Sihanouk Ville in December was sent to prison yesterday after her arrest in Kampot on Saturday, police said
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IFC Ombudsman to Help Settle Phnom Penh Airport Land Dispute
Representatives for the hundreds of families facing eviction from homes around Phnom Penh International Airport have agreed to let the compliance ombudsman of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank, mediate a solution to the land dispute with the government and the airport’s private operator.
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Overtime boycott under way
The threatened overtime boycott began at many of Cambodia’s garment factories yesterday – but not everyone could afford to walk off the job at their shift’s scheduled end.
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Return of Ranariddh?
Prince Norodom Ranariddh is making a grand return to Cambodian politics with a new party pledging, by its title at least, to bring unity to the Kingdom.
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Criticism Grows Over Australia’s Refugee Request
The Australian government continued to draw fire at home yesterday for asking Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the region, to make a home for some of the thousands of asylum seeker trying to reach Australia’s shores.
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Om Yentieng Asked to Pursue Alleged Corruption
Om Yentieng head of the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), has been asked in an anonymous and undated letter to follow up on accusations of corruption by tax officials in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, which allegedly came to light in 2012 but has not resulted in any punitive action.
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Garment Workers Being Boycott of Overtime
Labor union and garment factory owners gave opposing reports of the of an overtime boycott that began yesterday as the first phase of a nationwide labor strike planned for next month.
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Man Sentenced for Raping Stepdaughter
A man found guilty of raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined two million riel, or about $500, in compensation.
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Case of Trafficked Deaf Girl to Be Reinvestigated
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday decided to send the case of two people charged with trafficking q 13-year-old deaf, mute and HIV-positive girl to a brothel back to the investigating judge so that he could examine video footage that one suspect claims provides her with an alibi.
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Man Arrested Trafficking Workers Into Thailand
A 50 year-old man was arrested in Phnom Penh on Sunday after he tried to traffic 15 people across the border to work in Thailand, anti-human trafficking police said.
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Villagers File Complaint Over Chief Stealing Land
Five families from Oddar Meanchey province’s Samrong district have file a complaint with district authorities and rights group Adhoc in a bid to reclaim more than 16 hectares of land they allege was sold to other villagers by their village chief without their permission.
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Accused pedophile arrested
Anti-Human trafficking authorities have arrested a 70-year-old Canadian national they believe has engaged in sexual relation with four underage boys, the chief of Siem Reap’s anti-human trafficking department said yesterday.
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Gender gains lacking: report
Cambodian women are bumping up against a steadfast glass ceiling, an annual report by the Cambodian National Council for Women says.
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Officials still mum on alleged refugee request
While details remain scant about an alleged request from the Australian government that Cambodia takes in some refugees seeking asylum there, local advocates have cautioned that Cambodia is not a proper resettlement destination for any significant number of refugees.
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Grave sites cleared by rubber firms: NGOs
Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed.
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