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  • Unions Set to Being First Phase of Nationwide Strike

    A coalition of 18 labor unions and associations is today set to being the first phase of a nationwide labor strike in the garment sector by calling on workers in about 100 factories to boycott working overtime, according to union leaders.

  • Government Passed Legislation Against Money Laundering

    With growing concern from the international community that Cambodia is vulnerable to money launderers and financiers of terrorism, the Council of Ministers on Friday approved a sub-decree on freezing the assets of terrorist organizations and the institutions that support them.

  • Events Promoting Peace Stopped by Authorities

    Local officials in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district on Saturday morning detained a group of seven young adults who were attempting to hold what they called a “march for peace” through the streets of the city.

  • Minister’s Wife’s Land Dispute Under Investigation

    Chea Kheng, the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, has agreed to the formation of a committee to investigate the ownership of a 145-hectare plot of land in Kompong Chhnang province that has been in dispute since 2007, according to local right group Adhoc.

  • Court Clerk Charged with Taking Bribe

    The Svay Rieng provincial Court has charge one of its own employees with corruption following an investigation into the court clerk by the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), the prosecutor said yesterday.

  • Two Children Killed by Mortar Shell Explosion in Battambang

    Two Children were killed in Battambang province’s Bavel district on Friday when a mortar shell they were playing with exploded, police said yesterday.

  • Officials Beaten in Fracas Over Disputed Land

    A group of 50 villagers involved in a land dispute in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Puok district attacked three officials with sticks and ripped their shirts off on Thursday, as the official’s mad preparations to build an office on the disputed land.

  • Man Arrested Over Attempted Necrophilia

    A 47-year-old man was arrested yesterday in Prey Veng province’s Kompong Trabek district for digging up and opening a coffin containing the body of a teenage girl and attempting to have intercourse with the corpse, Prey Poun commune chief Keo Vutha said

  • Judge Orders Health Check for KRT Defendants

    Khmer Rouge tribunal defendants Nuon Chea and Khieu Samhan must undergo heath checks by a team of experts before the second phase of the trial against them proceeds, Trial Chamber President Nil Nonn has ruled.

  • CNRP Forum Interrupted by Police Blasting ´Gangnam Style´

    The opposition CNRP said yesterday that a public forum it held in Prey Veng province on Wednesday was shut down by arms forces who blasted the infectious Korean hit “Gangnam Style” and other pop songs at earsplitting volume from a loudspeaker.

  • Borie Keila Villagers Cast Curse on Adversaries

    Borie Keila resident yesterday cast a symbolic curse on the people they say are responsible for making their lives a misery since violently evicting them from their home two years ago.

  • Hun Sen Adds Armed Forces Chiefs to Strike Committee

    Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday appointed the chiefs of the national police, military police, and military to the government’s committee to solve Strikes and Demonstrations of All Targets, which is tasked with dealing with protests.

  • Bodies recovered after tragedy

    The bodies of two missing victims were found in the Mekong yesterday after a riverbank collapse in Kandal Province left three people presumed dead and one man hospitalized.

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  • Hun Sen Discusses Civil Servants’ Wages

    Returning to what are fast becoming two of his favorite bugbears, Prime Minster Hun Sen told officials at the annual Minister of Interior meeting that more must be done to ensure that the police and armed forces receive their salaries in a promote and efficient manner, and that unscrupulous market managers should be arrested if they overcharge market vendors.

  • Court Charges 911 Paratrooper Who Took Crystal Meth on Duty

    A member of the royal Cambodia Arms forces’(RCAF) elite Bridge 911 paratrooper unit yesterday confessed to using methamphetamine while on duty as he stood trial on drug charge at Phnom Penh Municipal court.

  • Paratrooper in court on drug charges

    A member of the 911 military paratroopers, the same elite unit used in a violent crackdown in January on protesters at the Yakjin garment company, was tried on drug charges yesterday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.

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  • PM lauds military for handling of protests

    Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday praised the country’s armed forces for their handling of last year’s election and its deadly aftermath, saying problems they met in 2013 were solved “successfully”.

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  • Verdict today for Kbal Thnal six

    In anticipation of today’s scheduled municipal court verdict for six men facing charges of violence and property damage in connection with a September clash on Phnom Penh’s Kbal Thnal overpass, rights groups yesterday called for their acquittal.

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  • Police Search for Missing Cambodian Journalist

    The Siem Reap immigration policies are looking for a Cambodian Journalist who disappeared from his guesthouse a week ago without a trace, police said yesterday.

  • River tragedy claims 3 lives

    A family is mourning two small children and a woman presumed dead after a river bank collapsed on Tuesday night, sending three houses plunging into the Mekong River in Kandal Province.

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