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Dragon’s Tail Logging Scandal Back in Court
Nearly a decade after a multimillion dollar illegal logging racket was uncovered in Ratanakkiri province’s Virachey National Park, and in which 14 senior provincial officials were eventually implicated, the case is back in Appeal Court.
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Lawmaker Defends Decision to Leave Scene of Fatal Accident
Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap yesterday defended his decision to leave the scene of a fatal traffic accident in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district on Friday morning, arguing that he had not broken the law because he had immediately called his lawyer after the crash and asked him to “solve the problem”.
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Try Pheap Given Exclusion Rights to Sized Wood
Tyr Pheap Import Export earlier this year obtained the exclusion right to collect nearly 5,000 cubic meters of confiscated luxury timber, from provinces across the country, after paying the government some $3.4 million for the privilege, the Forestry Administration said yesterday. Chhim Savuth, a researcher for local NGO Community Peace Building Network, who spoke during the event, said that since July’s national election, the rate of deforestation in the country has increase dramatically.
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New Report Shows Cambodian Forests in Jeopardy
PHNOM PENH - The rights group Adhoc says it is monitoring “at least 100” individuals who are complicit in forestry crimes across the country. These include “high-ranking officers” of the police and military police; business tycoons; and ordinary citizens across 11 provinces, Chan Soveth, a lead investigator for the group, told reporters Monday.
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SL Factory Refuses to Reinstate Fired Union Representative
The owner of Phnom Penh’s embattle SL Garment Factory in a meeting yesterday refused to reinstate 19 fire union representatives, despite last week being given 15 days by the Ministry of Labor to do so or face punitive measure.
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Despite Promise of Title, Authorities Refuse to Measure Land
Villagers and local authorities continued to argue over a 4-hectare plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district yesterday, a day after officials promised to measure and issue a title for it. District council chief Park Channa on Sunday promised to issue a land title for the Khtor pagoda after villagers on Friday set fire to an excavator.
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Government to Meet Over January Minimum Wage Increase
The current government-mandate minimum wage of $80 a month for garment factory workers will be increase in January 2014, though the amount it will be raised by has not been determined, a Labor Ministry official said yesterday.
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Senior Lawmaker Left Scene of Crash That Killed Woman
Senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap left the scene of a fatal traffic accident in Kandal province;s Kien Svay district on Friday morning that occurred when the SUV he was traveling in collided head-on with a young couple on a motorbike, leaving the woman dead and her husband critically injured, police and witnesses said yesterday.
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Families Protest Eviction by Chinese Company
Forty-to families from Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district yesterday held a demonstration to protest their pending eviction in favor of a Chinese company that plans to establish a sugarcane plantation on the land the families have occupied for almost three years.
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Sar Kheng Invites CNRP to Talk, Say Preconditions Won’t Be Met
In his closing address at a two-day National Election Committee (NEC) conference in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday, Interior Minister Sar Kheng told the opposition CNRP to end its boycott of the National Assembly, but emphasize that neither an independent investigation into July’s disputed election nor a reshuffling of the NEC would be forthcoming.
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CNRP Hold Demonstration in Siem Reap
The opposition CNRP has decided to move a mass demonstration to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10 from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap City that party’s deputy president Kem Sokha said on Saturday.
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Villagers Get Land Title After Torching Excavator
A land dispute between a development company and residents in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district boiled over late Friday night, with villagers setting fire to an excavator that they say company staff were using to raze a crematorium on the disputed plot of land.
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Senate Passes Budget Amid Opposition Boycott
The CPP-dominate Senate yesterday unanimously approved the government’s $3.4-billion draft budget for 2014 despite a boycott by the opposition SRP senators and a $1.53-billion portion of the budget left for Prime Minister Hun Sen to spend as he sees fit.
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Information Minister Orders TVK to Scrap Tedious Coverage
If Information Minister Khieu Kanharith is any indication, even the government is tiring if state television. Mr. Kanharith announced on Facebook on Wednesday that he had personally ordered the state run TVK channel to stop broadcasting the coming and goings of state officials on foreign excursions.
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Cambodian activist released on bail, faces possible retrial
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia's highest court released an activist on bail Friday after she served more than a year in prison on charges widely condemned as trumped up to silence a government critic. "It has been clear from the very beginning of this case that Yorm Bopha has been targeted for her activism in the context of the (Boeung Kak) community's struggle for their rights," Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said in a statement. "While today's decision to temporarily release Bopha from jail is a welcome step, we must urge the Appeal Court to act quickly and to put an end to the suffering of Bopha and her family once and for all."
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Meas Sotha—The Man at the Center of the SL Factory Strike
Meas Sotha is not leaving the SL Garment Factory. As tensions between management and workers have intensified over the past five months, Mr. Sotha and his role at the strike-plagued factory have moved center stage.
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Environment Ministry Denies Issuing New ELC to Logging Firm
The Ministry of Environment yesterday denied that a private agro-industry firm had been issued an “unofficial” land concession inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary as state on Monday by the provincial governor.
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Cambodian activist released on bail
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Cambodia's highest court released an activist on bail Friday after she served more than a year in prison on charges widely condemned as trumped up to silence a government critic. "It has been clear from the very beginning of this case that Yorm Bopha has been targeted for her activism in the context of the (Boeung Kak) community's struggle for their rights," Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said in a statement. "While today's decision to temporarily release Bopha from jail is a welcome step, we must urge the Appeal Court to act quickly and to put an end to the suffering of Bopha and her family once and for all."
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Journalist Slain Since 1994 Remembered in Candlelight Ceremony
About 100 people gathered at the entrance of Phnom Penh’s Olympic Stadium at sunset yesterday to hold a candlelight vigil in ceremony of journalist slain in Cambodia and to highlight what rights workers said is a culture of impunity that has protected their killers from justice.
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Lumber Tycoon Denies Allegations of Illegal Deforestation
PHNOM PENH - The assistant of a lumber tycoon accused of major deforestation and forced evictions rejected Thursday the findings of a recent report by local rights groups.
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