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CNRP Member Charged Over Hitting CPP- Supporting In -Law
The Secretary of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in kampong Thom province’s Stong district was on Tuesday charged with intentional violence in an attack involving a pot. Chhe Cheng, 34, who is the appointed CNRP administrator in Stong district, is accused of hitting his brother-in-law, a CPP supporter, with a cooking pot in the head on Sunday evening.
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Hun Sen replace ten provincial governors
KAMPOT ( The Cambodia Herald)—Prime Minister Hun Sen said, ten provincial governors were replaced in accordance with retirement age, health problems and changes made based on legislative candidacy. Speaking during the opening ceremony for new building in the province of Kampot, Hun Sen said, the Bantey Meanchey provincial governor was replaced because he will be named a legislative candidate for the up-coming national elections on July 28th.
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Hunt on for Military Police Captain Who killed NGO Worker
Military police say they have launched an investigation into the murder of a staffer from legal aid NGO International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), who was shot in the neck and killed by one of their own military police officers in Kandal province’s Takmao City on Friday night. The victim, IBJ provincial investigator Houn Bunith, 33, had attended a party with military police captain Reab Bun Song, 30, at the officer’s snooker hall in Takmao City.
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Video: UN Secretary General says ‘LGBT rights is one of the great, neglected human rights challenges of our time’
he United Nations Secretary General Bank Ki-moon, has given an impassioned speech, voicing his support for LGBT rights, and condemning governments around the world which refuse to tackle discrimination against LGBT people. In the video, posted by the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who recently attended the International Conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Oslo, encourages all to be more vocal about tackling violence, and discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity.
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Stung Treng Locals Angered by Dam Checkpoint, Resettlement
Construction of a checkpoint designed to keep local villagers out of a forest in preparing for the clearing of a reservoir for a massive hydropower dam in Stung Treng province had angered the villagers. Siek Mekong, chief of Srekor commune in Sesan district, said yesterday that work had been completed on checkpoint that will serve as a barrier to prevent local people from entering the forest, which local villagers rely on for a number of items used in their daily living.
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ILO Says Fire Safety Measures Lacking in Garment Sector
Cambodia’s garment industry is experiencing a worrying rise in fire safety violations as factories struggle to cope with a sharp increase in the number of orders they are receiving, the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia program ( BFC) said in a report yesterday.
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Cambodian Workers in South Korean Will Stay
More than 20,000 Cambodians working and studying in South Korea will remain in the country despite warnings from North Korean state media that a thermonuclear war is imminent, encouraging foreigners on the Korean Peninsula to leave, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday.
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World Bank Urged To Review Policies in Places Like Cambodia
PHNOM PENH - The World Bank is under pressure to review some of its policies around the world to ensure that in countries like Cambodia it is not funding the wrong projects. In a discussion at George Washington University this week, panelists said the World Bank is needed for international challenges of land tenure and food security.
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KRT Defendant Khieu Samphan Pleads for Release on Bail
War crimes defendant Khieu Samphan personally pleaded to be released from detention at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, arguing that he is not a flight risk, that his family would be able to take care of him and that he would attend every hearing by traveling to court on a motorbike.
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Farmers Sue UK Sugar Firm For Millions
Hundreds of Cambodian farmers are suing the British sugar firm Tate & Lyle in one of the U.K’s highest courts over a pair of plantation in Koh Kong province they accuse violently forcing them of their land and out of their homes.
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Firm Accused of Illegal Logging in Ratanakkiri
Families in Ratanakkiri province yesterday lodged a complaint with the rights group Adhoc accusing a trio of economic land concession (ELC) owners of illegally logging outside of their concession areas and felling their vital resin and palm oil trees. Chan Naroun said yesterday she was among 20 families in Koh Mom district Sre Angkrang commune who relied on tapping the trees to make a living and accused the concession’s boundaries-and into the Lumpat Wildlife Sanctuary to cut them down since February.
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Men Arrested for Land –Title Fund-Raise Con
Military Police arrested three men in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday for the fraudulently pretending to collect donation on behalf of the rolling CPP for student volunteers enrolled in the nationwide land-titling program, official said yesterday. Phnom Penh Deputy Military Police chief Pong Sophoeun, 37; Thy Yimork, 60; and Vann Deth, 45, were caught trying to extort money from the management of a Sethapana Limited Microfinance Bank branch.
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Eleven Trafficked Men Return to Cambodia
Eleven of 23 trafficked Cambodians rescued from a Thai fishing trawler off the coat of Mauritius landed at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday, with most of the other set to return tomorrow.
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Opposition To Hold Demonstration on Election Reform
PHNOM PENH - The Cambodia National Rescue Party says it will lead a demonstration of opposition supporters later this month to demand election reforms. Some 4,000 protesters are expected to meet at Freedom Park, an authorized gathering place in the capital, and march to the headquarters of the National Election Committee, demanding changes within the government’s election body to ensure free and fair elections, Yim Sovann, a spokesman for the party said.
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French Priest Testifies, as Tribunal Resumes Work
PHNOM PENH - A French Catholic priest testified before the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, which has resumed hearings following the death of defendant Ieng Sary. Francois Ponchaud, 74, who arrived in Cambodia in 1965, told the court the Khmer Rouge were known for atrocities in the villages before taking over Phnom Penh in April 1975.
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Couple Doused With Acid in Kompong Cham
A man and a woman were doused with strong acid on Monday, causing severe burns to the man’s face and woman’s body , as they watched television together in Kompong Cham province, police said yesterday. Sen Srey Roth,23, and her 32 year-old boyfriend, Long Bunthoeun, were at Ms. Srey Roth’s house in Memot district’s Choam Kravien commune when Chea Theng,23, entered the room where they were lying together at about 7 p.m. and poured a container of industrial acid used to harden rubber over the couple, said Kcheany Thmey villagers chief Keo Va.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge court to be 'downsized'
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia said Wednesday it would downsize its Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, following a shortage of funds that disrupted a major trial of former top regime leaders. "We have a financial crisis at the court so we have to restructure its operations to make it smaller in order to reduce costs," government spokesman Ek Tha told AFP.
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“Year Zero†Author Describes Terror of Lon Nol Bomb Raids
Speaking in perfect Khmer Rouge, French author and priest Frabncois Ponchaud took to the stand at the at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday and provided some richly detailed testimony about the despair the fall of Phnom Penh. Mr. Ponchaud , who is now a Cambodian citizen and wrote the book “Cambodia : Year Zero,” moved to the country in 1965 and lived in Preah Vihear province, where he initially worked as a missionary.
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Demonstrators Rally at EU Embassy to Protest Generic Drugs
Nearly 100 protesters rallied in front of the European Union (E.U.) delegation to Cambodia’s office yesterday calling for assurances that the bloc’s free trade pact with Indian does not put restrictions on the production of generic drugs there disease such as HIV/AIDS in developing world.
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Land Titling Program Favors Wealthy Businessman
In Washington today, attendees of the World Bank’s Annual Conference on Land and Poverty will hear a flattering account of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ambitious project to furnish nearly half a-million Cambodian families with new private land titles just in time for July’s national elections. But in small villagers in rural Kompong Chhnang province, local farmers are among a growing list of communities worried that the project is cheating them of their land rights.
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