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Briefs: Hun Sen Abruptly Ends Press Conference, Business Body Worried About Crimes Against Chinese
In a diplomatic dodge in a Thursday press conference with the visiting Malaysian premier, Prime Minister Hun Sen quickly shut down a reporter’s questions about previous criticism from the Malaysian foreign minister.
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Oral forest activists protest legal case against them over land dispute
Six forest community representatives in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district were questioned by the Provincial Court on Wednesday for intentionally causing damage, threatening, publicly insulting, and incitement.
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NagaWorld Strikers Accused of Pictures Stunt
Officials said the workers abandoned sleeping material provided by the authorities and refused to stay in the living rooms. Instead, they rested on the ground outside and posted pictures on social media with the intention of blaming the authorities and doctors.
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Supreme Court Rejects Bail for Land Broker in Conflict-Ridden Commune
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied bail to a land broker who claimed he wasn’t aware he was falsifying documents, after he was arrested alongside seven others in relation to land conflicts in Preah Sihanouk’s Bit Traing commune.
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Sokha’s lawyer asks for more trial days
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will consider adding more trial days for the hearing in the treason case against former opposition leader Kem Sokha following a request by his lawyer. Civil society groups have maintained that the trial, which is being held just once a week for less than four hours each time, undermines Sokha’s rights to a speedy trial.
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Cambodian groups accuse authorities of sexually harassing female strikers
Cambodian civil society groups, community organizations, and trade unions on Thursday accused governmental officials of sexually harassing female strikers and applying COVID prevention rules arbitrarily as part of an effort to break up recent labor demonstrations.
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As CNRM Trial Ends, Prosecution Says CNRP Leaders Responsible for Trade Hitches
One of two CNRP mass trials will have a verdict on March 17 after lawyers in the prolonged legal affair made their concluding statements Thursday, with the prosecution alleging senior opposition leaders and members were directly responsible for partial revocations of international trade privileges.
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Soldiers Assault Villagers in Disputed Kampong Speu Forest, Says Rights Group
On Tuesday, members of the elite Brigade 70 military unit fired warning shots and physically assaulted villagers as the soldiers attempted to clear a section of disputed forest in the Aoral district of Kampong Speu, according to local witnesses and a rights organization.
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NGOs Decry Police Use of Force, Sexual Harassment as NagaWorld Detentions Continue
Authorities on Thursday continued to detain NagaWorld workers attempting to resume their strike, with local rights groups criticizing what they described as excessive use of police force including sexual harassment against the strikers.
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Mine authority launches information dissemination campaign in Preah Vihear
The Mine authority erected billboards to raise awareness of the dangers of mine and UXOs, which is part of the information campaign and part of efforts to keep injury and deaths caused by the war relics down.
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Kem Sokha Trial Sees Heated Arguments Over Evidence, Procedural Minutiae
Meng Sopheary, a Sokha lawyer, said the 2013 Siem Reap video — in which the former CNRP president encourages people to vote and talks about his party policies — reveals that Sokha was not treasonous and that the prosecution had never pinpointed an event to prove their charge.
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Residence, family books free of charge, district police say
The seven commune police stations in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district have been instructed to pay more attention to the issuance of residence and family books to people changing their residence or moving from one village or commune to another.
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Striking Cambodian workers say they are being held in deplorable conditions
Workers detained for striking against the NagaWorld Casino in Phnom Penh said they are being held in squalid conditions and must agree to stop gathering in protest as a condition of their release.
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NagaWorld Workers Reach Casino Doorstep, While Others Asked to Pay $1,250 Fines
Phnom Penh City Hall released a statement Tuesday saying it had tried to get workers to comply with its health guidelines, but the strikers were insisting on continuing “anarchic” gatherings. The city’s statement added that workers would now face fines ranging from $250 to $1,250.
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People with Disabilities Need More Support in Accessing IDPoor
Meng Tong’s left foot has been paralyzed since birth, but this hasn’t stopped him from farming. However, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tong set out trying to support other people with disabilities in Batheay District, Kampong Cham Province by teaching them agricultural skills and helping them to acquire IDPoor cards.
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Hun Sen Lays Into Agriculture Minister for ‘Riding a Horse to See Flowers’
The prime minister was speaking at the annual meeting of the Interior Ministry, where he used expressive body language to question Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon in person on the stage. Hun Sen’s main criticism was with Sakhon’s alleged mismanagement of pork prices and for creating a supply-side issue.
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Residence, family books free of charge, district police say
The seven commune police stations in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district have been instructed to pay more attention to the issuance of residence and family books to people changing their residence or moving from one village or commune to another.
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Workers Say They Will Resume Protest, Despite Late-Night Exit from Testing Facility
NagaWorld union workers said they will return to the casino complex to continue their strike on Tuesday, after about 60 of them were detained on Monday and taken to a Prek Pnov facility to get tested for Covid-19 before being released just before midnight.
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Government Bans Opennet from Taking on New Customers over $6.6 Million Debt
Following on from a warning issued by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications on Feb. 10, the authorities have decided to ban King Technologies, the parent company of internet service provider Opennet, from signing up new customers after it has failed to repay $6.6 million that the government says the company owes.
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Briefs: Indigenous Bunong Say Burial Grounds Stolen, Hun Sen Says No to Covid Lockdown
Mondulkiri indigenous Bunong residents have filed a complaint against a local commune chief and village chief for allegedly allowing other people to fence off their ancestral burial grounds in Sen Monorom district.
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