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Teenager Charged With Rape of 7-Year-Old
The kampot Provincial Court yesterday charged a 14-year-old boy with the rape of a 7-year-old girl at a mango plantation on Monday in Toek Chhou district, police said.
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Right Group Reaffirms Stance on Use of ‘Yuon’
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) yesterday released a statement seeking to clarify an open letter it issued on December 12, which accused CNRP President Sam Rainsy of making comments that are “both derogatory and discriminatory, against… people of Vietnamese origin.”
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Police Watchful of Ongoing Opposition Demonstrations
Cambodian authorities say they are keeping a close watch on opposition demonstrations, which entered their fourth day in the capital on Wednesday. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said the demonstrations have not crossed any lines, but if they become a threat to the government, they will be broken up by force.
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Special Economic Zone Strike in Svay Rieng Ends –For Now
An estimate 30,000 garment factory workers will resume work this morning after three days of strike action ended yesterday when Svay Rieng provincial officials promised to help the strikers achieve their demands from factory owners.
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Ruling Party Considers Removing Opposition’s Assembly Seats
Lawmakers of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party are discussing legal means to remove 55 opposition legislators from their seats in the National Assembly, as an opposition boycott of parliament continues following July elections.
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Doubts Over New Directives on Migrant Labor
The Labor Ministry this week issued eight new directives to regulate the process of sending Cambodians abroad for work, but doubts remain as to how effective they will be in protesting migrant workers.
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Rainsy Takes to Tuk-Tuk for Latest Opposition Protest Rally
CNRP President Sam Rainsy nearly exhausted all manner of wheeled, motorized transport during his opposition party’s latest protest procession through Phnom Penh yesterday, at one point even getting behind the handlebars of a tuk-tuk.
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Suspects Deny Roles in Fatal 2011 Shooting
Two suspects in the 2011 murder of a Phnom Penh woman, including the son of military police officer, denied any knowledge or involvement of the crime during their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
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UN Urges Government to Establish Independent Torture Committee
The U.N. has urged the government to establish an independent body to monitor the treatment of prisoners and detainees following a five-day visit to Cambodia by the U.N.’s subcommittee on the prevention of torture (SPI).
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Pursat Villagers Get No More Compensation
A representative of the Try Pheap Group said yesterday that villagers in Pursat province who attempted to march to a public forum on Monday to ask authorities to intervene in a land dispute would not receive any further compensation after losing the right to the land they say they have farmed since 1996.
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Opposition Gives Government ‘Three Months’ To Resolve Election Complaints
PHNOM PENH — Opposition officials said Tuesday they will give the government three months to hold a new election, or they will lead a movement in hopes of toppling its leadership. Kem Sokha, vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the government is harming its citizens and will face “people power” as a result.
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Woman Allegedly Detained, Beaten in Thailand
The family of a Cambodian woman working in a Bangkok casino filed a complaint with local right group Adhoc on Monday seeking help after semi-naked photos of their relative appeared on Facebook about two weeks after they had lost contact with her.
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Protesting Monks Besiege Buddhist Clergy Over Stolen Relics
About 200 monks besieged a meeting of senior member of the Buddhist clergy at Phnom Penh’s Chaktomuk Conference Hall yesterday, demanding that religious leaders call on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to take action over the recent theft of Buddhist relics.
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Court Pick Up Land Dispute Involving Senator
The Kompong Speu Provincial Court has summoned for trial a married couple accused of encroaching on land excised form a plantation belong to CPP Senator and businessman Ly Yong Phat, and has issued more than dozen other summonses and arrest warrants in the past month for villagers involved in disputes with the sugar magnate, a community representative said.
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CPP to Make Move Over Boycott of Parliament
The CPP-controlled National Assembly will soon send the National Election Committee (NEC) a letter officially informing the body of a boycott of parliament by the CNRP’s 55 members of parliament, in what appears to be the first step in the ruling party stripped of their seats.
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CNRP Rally Continues Into Day With Buddhist Ceremony
The opposition CNRP’s demonstration to demand Prime Minister Hun Sen resign or call a new election continued for a third day yesterday with a small Buddhist ceremony in Freedom Park and a short protest drive through Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district.
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Monitors Press for Start KRT’s Next Phase
The Khmer Rouge tribunal must ensure that the second phase of the case against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan proceeds as soon as possible, the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) said in a statement yesterday.
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Villagers Learn Prevention, Solutions to Forced Evictions
PHNOM PENH — Around 250 villagers from 41 different impoverished communities gathered in Phnom Penh Monday for a two-day seminar that looked into strategies to prevent forced eviction.
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Via Motorbikes, Opposition Protest Wends Through Capital
Opposition leaders led around 1,000 protesters, most of them on motor scooters, through Phnom Penh on Monday, part of an ongoing weekly call for demonstrations over July’s election results.
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CNRP Protest Enters Second Day With Motorcycle Rally
The second day of the CNRP’s daily protests to demand a new election ended yesterday afternoon with a motorcycle rally through Phnom Penh led by opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha. A few hundred CNRP supporters had milled about Freedom Park dancing to live munsic and eating snacks throughout the afternoon, but the park began to fill with people in the lead-up to Mr. Rainsy and Mr. Sokha’s arrival at 5 p.m.
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