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Twenty-Three Arrested Protesters Held in Kompong Cham Prison
After refusing for days to disclose the location of 23 protesters arrested last week and then charged in court, prison officials revealed yesterday the group is being held in notorious jail in Kompong Cham
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Vietnamese Shops Worry Over Possible Violence
Vietnamese business owners and managers in Phnom Penh yesterday said they were concerned their shops could become potential targets ethically motivated violence as anti-Vietnamese sentiment among protesters increases, but added they would continue to operate as normal-for now.
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Right Groups Condemn Killing of Protesters
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), along with local right groups Licadho and Adhoc, denounced the Friday shooting of protesting garment workers by police in a joint statement released in Phnom Penh on Monday.
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Teachers to Recommence Strike for Higher Wage
Teachers around the country will recommence a labor strike today, demanding a raise in salary to $250 per month, teachers and the Cambodian Independent Teachers Union (CITA) said yesterday.
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Lawyer to Access Whether Government Crimes Worthy of ICC
The Opposition CNRP announced yesterday that it had engaged lawyer Richard Rogers, former head of Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s Defense Support Section, to analyze evidence of alleged crimes committed by CPP government and decide whether they justify filling a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Unions Tell Garment Workers to Suspend Strike
Union behind last week’s garment factory strikes said their members had largely gone back to work this week, although they have not ruled out resuming protests for a higher minimum wage later this month.
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Arrested Protesters’ Whereabouts Still Unknown
Prison and judicial officials yesterday continued to conceal the whereabouts of 23 people who were arrested during protests by striking garment workers in Phnom Penh last week, rights workers and a defense lawyer said.
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Wounded Recount Rampage by Military Police
Military police first fired their assault rifles over the heads of protester when they arrived at the Veng Sreng Street protest on Friday, before quickly shifting their lethal aim to be level with stone-throwing strikers, according to interviews with almost 20 injured witnesses at three hospitals yesterday.
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CPP Celebrates January 7 Anniversary, Citizens Opposition
Amid a standing ban on public assembly across Phnom Penh, the ruling CPP gathered some 20,000 of its supporters yesterday to make the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Pol Pot regime, with senior party leaders using occasion to attack the opposition and defend the CPP’s latest contested win at the polls.
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Village Chief Starts Petition to Remove Opposition Monk
A village chief in Kampong Thom province had begun collecting signatures on a petition to remove the opposition-aligned head monk of his local pagoda, whom he has accused of embezzling the pagoda’s money.
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Twenty Buddha Statues Stolen From Pagoda
Twenty statues of the Buddha were stolen Tuesday night from Odomraram pagoda in Ratanakkiri province’s Veun Sai district, according to monks and local police.
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CNRP Calls Off Talks After Paratroopers Break Up Protest
The opposition CNRP yesterday called off a meeting with the ruling CPP scheduled for today after members of an elite paratrooper unit violently broke up a protest by striking garment factory workers.
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Paratroopers Deployed at Garment Protest: Detained, Injured
More than dozens monks, striking garment workers and journalists were beaten yesterday by members of the elite 911 paratrooper unit armed with batons, steel pipes and even slingshots during a bloody clash outside a Phnom Penh factory where a few hundred protesters gathered to demand a hike in their monthly pay.
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Activist Monks, NGO Workers Held After Preah Vihear Protest
Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province yesterday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to province to support a group of ethic Kuoy villagers protesting loss of their farmland.
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Gov’t Unveils Legal Plan to Break Garment Industry Strike
As mass demonstrations by garment factory workers continued yesterday, the government laid out plans to bring an end to labor unrest within the next three days, including suing union leaders in the courts and mobilizing security forces to take unspecified action.
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Senior Government Officials Rebuff Opposition Protesters’ Demands
Senior government officials said yesterday that they will not bow to the demands of opposition protesters to unseat Prime Minister Hun Sen, but remained coy over the government’s likely response if the daily protests continue. The Opposition CNRP, which has rejected the official results of July 28 national election, has been leading two weeks of demonstrations and marches to demand that Mr. Hun Sen stand down or call a new election.
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New Tuol Kok Mall to Add to District’s Growth
A new open-air mail sporting high-end luxury shops and restaurants in Phnom Penh Tuol Kok district is the latest expansion of the suburban neighborhood, though widespread commercialization of the area could still take years, property executive.
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Government Media Unit Deletes Protest Article
The Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) yesterday swiftly deleted a new article from its website the detailed Sunday’s opposition marches in Phnom Penh that saw 50,000 people turn out to demand Prime Minister Hun Sen resign from his position.
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After Protest, Government Speeds Up Land Titles for Kratie Families
Government officials have agreed to speed up the delivery of land titles promised to some 1,500 families in Kratie province after about 200 of them, angered by the monthslong delay, protested outside their local commune office yesterday. The protesters said they had their land measured in May by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s student volunteers, who have been measuring the land across the country since mid-2012, as part of the premier’s mass land-titling project.
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Some Factories Stay Open Despite GMAC’s Call for Shutdown
Some factories opened their doors yesterday morning despite a notice on Sunday from the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) that all factories should stay closed until the government and striking unions guaranteed their safety.
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