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Ahead of Election, CPP Pushes Forward With 2014 Budget
Although the national election is just weeks away and opposition lawmakers have been banned from Parliament until a new government is formed in September, the National Assembly yesterday forged ahead with its work in preparing next year’s national budget.
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Ruling Party Supporters Disrupt Opposition Forum
PHNOM PENH - Opposition officials say two forums organized by the party outside of Phnom Penh were interrupted by local ruling party supporters with a loudspeaker on Tuesday. At least 200 members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party showed up at the forums in Kandal province, interrupting public discussions held by the Cambodia National Rescue Party, opposition lawmaker Chan Cheng told VOA Khmer.
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Cambodia: Land Titling Campaign Open to Abuse
It is good news that the land titling campaign has been suspended until after the elections, but this demonstrates just how political the effort has been from the outset. While some have benefitted from the campaign, in other cases the scheme has amounted to a land grab by powerful interests with no legal protections or recourse for those who lose out in the process. The campaign is being conducted in a secretive and bullying manner in which independent organizations are prevented from monitoring what is happening and local residents are threatened if they complain. Brad Adams, Asia director
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CPP-Led Assembly Tells US to Stop Meddling
The National Assembly yesterday officially rebuked the U.S. government for meddling in Cambodia’s internal affairs after its criticism of the expulsion of 27 opposition lawmakers from their parliamentary positions.
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Khmer Rouge Victim Threatens Lawsuit Against Opposition Official
PHNOM PENH - Pressure continues for a senior opposition party official to apologize for alleged remarks that has upset victims of the Khmer Rouge. Chhum Mey, an outspoken survivor of the regime’s infamous Tuol Sleng prison, told VOA Khmer Tuesday that he intends to sue Kem Sokha, vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, unless an apology is forthcoming for the latter’s alleged claims that the crimes of the prison were staged by Vietnamese forces after they ousted the Khmer Rouge. “Now I will wait for any response from Kem Sokha,” Chhum Mey said.
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Hun Sen Denies Telling Thailand Block Sam Rainsy’s Entry
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday denied having persuaded Thai officials to prevent Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Sam Rainsy from entering Thailand last week to promote his new book.
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Fake Facebook Page Used to Spread Lewd Photo of Mu Sochua
The government’s Press and Quick Reaction Unit have denied any connection to the dissemination of a doctored, lewd image of opposition party member Mu Sochua that surfaced on the social media website Facebook on Saturday.
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Call for Oversight of Cambodian Land Campaign
A land titling campaign in Cambodia launched and financed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s lacks transparency and could leave thousands of people landless, a human rights group said Wednesday, urging the country’s donors to push for reform of the program. The campaign, which employs volunteer youth to measure land for villagers, has little oversight and is largely benefiting the rich and well-connected, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement.
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Cambodia factory for Nike fires 300 workers
Cambodia's garment industry is increasingly considered the moral alternative to that of scandal-ridden Bangladesh. But this week a Nike clothing factory there fired some 300 workers after they protested for weeks about low wages. Cambodia’s garment industry represents almost 80 percent of its exports, and with more than 300 factories and about 350,000 employees it is the booming heart of Cambodian economic life. For that reason, the government has aggressively polished the industry’s image over the past decade to reel in foreign retailers. But analysts say that much of the touted reforms are just gloss, lacquered onto a reality rife with abuses.
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Hun Sen Says Civil War Would Be Opposition’s Fault
Talk of the country descending into civil war in the run-up to July’s national election continued yesterday as Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated that an election victory for the opposition would ignited nationwide violence that would spill over into neighboring Vietnam.
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CPP Lawmaker Tells US to Drop ‘Colonial’ Rhetoric
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun yesterday rejected concerns expressed by the U.S. over the expulsion of 27 opposition lawmakers from the National Assembly, and proceeded to underline his stance by personally ejecting an opposition party member who had attended a press conference at Parliament.
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Hundreds of strikers fired from Cambodia Nike factory
Hundreds of workers have been fired from a Cambodian factory making sportswear for US giant Nike following a series of protests over pay, unionists said on Tuesday, denouncing the move as "unacceptable" and illegal."They have been forced to resign from their jobs without any compensation. This act is illegal," said Mann Seng Hak, a leader of the Free Trade Union. He said nearly 300 workers had been sacked.
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Cambodia Opposition Party’s Campaign Rallies Disrupted
The deputy leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party said he is concerned for his safety after ruling party activists disrupted two of his public rallies and confronted him amid rising tensions ahead of national elections next month. Kem Sokha said that at his Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) rally outside the capital Phnom Penh on Tuesday afternoon, a crowd of supporters of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) staged a counter-demonstration against him that led to a standoff between the two sides. The CPP activists interrupted the rally in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district by blasting speakers that drowned out Kem Sokha’s speech, according to CNRP officials and a local commune official.
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Grassroots Organization Set to Demonstrate Over Social Issues
More than 3,000 people belonging to a grassroots organization in Cambodia are expected to take part in three demonstrations in different provinces this month to demand a response to a petition they filed last year to the National Assembly.
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Hun Sen Threatens to Sue Opposition Over Vietnam Remarks
Prime Minister Hun Senon Saturday threatened to sue opposition members for defamation for statements they allegedly made accusing the ruling CPP of allowing Vietnamese nationals into Cambodia.
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Thousands Rally Against Comments Made by KemSokha
What was billed for weeks as a groundswell of popular anger against opposition leader KemSokha-for comments he allegedly made denying Khmer Rouge responsibility for TuolSleng prison-turned into a political rally of thousands in Phom Penh yesterday that had clear support local authorities.
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Rainsy Says Climate in Cambodia Is Ripe for Civil War
Self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy has said the government’s decision to strip 27 law-makers from the SRP and Human Rights Party (HRP) of their parliamentary status and salaries has created the necessary conditions in the country to bring about a renewed state of civil war.
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Phnom Penh Campaign Restrictions Requested
Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong has requested that political campaigning be banned on the majority of the capital’s major streets and popular parks, according to a letter sent to the Ministry of Interior last week.
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Government supporters rally in Cambodia as election tension rises
Referring to the atrocities scandal, Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, denounced the "blatant politicization of our country's history in order to score points before the national elections".
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Parties Reminded To Avoid Threats, Violence as Election Approaches
PHNOM PENH - The National Election Committee on Friday reminded the eight political parties competing in July’s election to respect the rules of fair campaigning. Parties must “avoid acts of threats, intimidation or violence against citizens, supporters or candidates,” NEC official Som Chandina told reporters. Som Chandina also said parties should exercise “tolerance” for each other and that government personnel and equipment are not to be used for campaigning purposes.
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