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Two Borei Keila Women in Hospital From Clash
Two residents of the Borei Keila Community remained hospitalized yesterday after a Valentine’s Day clash with authorities on Friday that left 19 people injured, a community representative said.
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CPP and CNRP to Discuss Electoral Reform
Senior officials from the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP will meet on Tuesday to negotiate the creation of a “mechanism” for electoral reform, according to statement released by the two parties over the weekend.
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Students Who Wish to study in the US Still facing Challenges
More than 400 Cambodian students hoping to study in the UC flocked to meet representatives from 27 American colleges at the U.S-Cambodia Education Fair on Saturday in Phnom Penh.
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Illegal Logging Case ‘Closed’ Against RCAF Officer
A brigadier general in Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) whose home and rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province were raided by police last week claimed yesterday that the authorities had apologized to him after he threatened them with a lawsuit.
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Preah Vihear Villagers Continue to Protest
More than 30 families continued to demonstrate in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Friday and Saturday over what they say is the illegal clearing of land by a Chinese company, villagers said yesterday.
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No solution for Borei Keila Families, ‘Occupation’ Continues
Representative from the Borei Keila community met with Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday morning, but failed to agree on the size of temporary shelters the municipality had promised to build for the evicted families who currently live beside a fetid garbage site.
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Villagers Want compensation for lower sesan 2 dam construction
A group of eight villagers from Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces facing displacement by the construction of the Lower Sesan 2 dam lodged a petition yesterday with the Chinese Embassy and three ministries demanding the developer negotiate with them.
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Kratie Villagers Block Road After Officials Torch Home
Police and military police in Kratie province’s Snuol district on Wednesday burned to the ground 56 homes they said were on protected land, causing displaced villagers to block National Road 76 in protest for four hours, officials said.
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Motodop alleged rapist
A 33-year-old motodop accused of raping his underage stepdaughter on multiple occasions last year was tried yesterday at Phnom Penh Municipal Court. Presiding Judge Sous Sam Ath said Chuch Sokha “forcibly raped his 13-year-old stepdaughter many times at his house [in Po Sen Chey District’s Boeng Prey Commune] while his wife was at work at the local garment factory.”
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Men Accuse Ratanakkiri Police of Torture
Three men from Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district yesterday filed a complaint with the provincial court and rights group Adhoc against a police official they accuse of torture for beating them while them were detained.
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Soldiers, Woman Sentenced for Drug Trafficking
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court Yesterday sentenced two Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers to life in prison and a Cambodian woman to 30 years imprisonment for producing drugs, dealing illicit drugs and trafficking drugs as well as the illegal use of weapons.
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Trial of Disabled Girl Sold Into Prostitution Continues
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday continued to hear the case of a 44-year-old woman and 128-year-old man charged with trafficking a young, deaf, mute and HIV positive girl to a brothel in the city’s Chamkar Mon district.
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Unions Plan 2nd Round of Mass Strikes
After the Count of Appeal denied bail to 21 jailed protesters on Tuesday, 16 labor unions and associations announced yesterday that they will retaliate by calling a nationwide labor strike in the Middle of March.
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Borei Keila Residents ‘Occupy’ Unfinished Apartment Block
Residents embroiled in a long-running land dispute in the Borie Keila area of Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district yesterday tore down three metal fences and occupied an unfinished apartment block at the site.
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Press Freedom Ranking Drops Again in 2014
Cambodia has slipped further down the list of 180 countries assessed in Reporters Without Border’s newest World Press Freedom Index, which was released late Tuesday.
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Authorities Burn 60 Homes In Pursat Province
More than 60 wooden homes in pursat province were burned to the ground yesterday by official in Veal Veng district, who claimed that land rights ground Licadho said.
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King Sihamoni Visits Preah Khan, Prays for Peace
King Norodom Shamoni visited Preah Khan temple in Preah Vihear province on Tuesday to deliver food and supplies to more than 800 families and pray to Cambodia’s late king for peace and reconciliation in the country.
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Villagers Block Roads in Land Disputes in Kratie, Pursat
About 20 villagers clad in CPP T-Shirts and baseball caps demonstrated yesterday outside the Snoul commune office in Kratie province, demanding that provincial authorities issue land titles for them.
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Ministries to Help Farmer Hurt by sugar Plantations
The government on Monday agreed to a comprehensive solution for rural families who have lost their land to well-connected agricultural plantations exporting sugar to the European Union (E.U.) duty free and will meet again early next month to discuss details.
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Appeal Court Denis Bail to 21 Jailed Protesters
The Court of Appeal yesterday denied bail to 21 workers and activists who were arrested and placed in a maximum security prison last month following the government’s deadly suppression of minimum wage protests in the garment sector.
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