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Groups Call on Tribunal To Find Salaries for Interpreters
PHNOM PENH - An international association of interpreters is calling for the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal to find a way to pay the salaries of staff at the court so that an atrocity crimes trial for three former regime leaders can continue. The Switzerland-based International Association of Conference Interpreters called for “all parties concerned to attain a swift and satisfactory resolution” in what it called a “dire situation.”
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Legal Experts Meet to Mull KR Tribunal’s Legacy
Despite the glacial pace of proceeding in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s second case, allegations of rampant political interference in the court’s investigations and now a strike by translators who have not been paid since November, Cambodian and international legal experts met yesterday to one again mull the legacy the war tribunal will leave.
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Brothers Shot Dead Logging Rosewood in Thailand
Two more Cambodians were reportedly shot dead in Thailand on Monday after crossing the border in search of Luxury rosewood, an official said yesterday. The deaths bring to seven the count of loggers killed this year over the border.
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Sam Rainsy Drops Countersuit Against Foreign Minister in Defamation Case
PHNOM PENH - Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday announced he was withdrawing an appeal in the Cambodian courts in a case brought by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, who claims he was defamed by a speech Sam Rainsy made in 2008. Sam Rainsy told VOA Khmer by phone from Bangkok that a French court had already cleared him of defamation charges brought there by Hor Namhong, whom Sam Rainsy said was a cohort of the Khmer Rouge during his time at a prison camp run by the regime. Hor Namhong says he was a prisoner there.
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Wage talks at a stand still
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The three-hour meeting Monday between government representatives, factory employers and union leaders resulted in a stale mate. At Ministry of Social Affairs, employers didn't budge from their offer of $75 a month while the union still demanded between $91 and $100. Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, said that employers would only increase salaries by $14 which included $5 for health care in addition to current minimum wage of $61.
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No Major Reforms Mean Risks To Election Process, Group Says
WASHINGTON DC - Cambodia has made no significant reforms to improve its electoral system, jeopardizing the legitimacy of elections set for July, a prominent election watchdog says.
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Two Khmer Krom Men Questioned in Court
Two Khmer Krom men who were arrested on Friday were sent yesterday to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for questioning, but the court officials would not disclose what crime the men are suspected of committing. Court clerk Sok Ty said that the court needs to finish questioning the suspects before revealing what the crime they were accused of.
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Chanel explores "Kingdom of Cambodia"
A FORMER local has been exposed to the "Kingdom of Cambodia" through the eyes of an Australian human rights intern. Studying a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice at Flinders University in Adelaide, Chanel Martin is now in her final year and for the past three months has worked as an international intern with the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights in the country's capital, Phnom Penh. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, it is home to more than 2.2 million people. Having left Kingston in 2006 after finishing her schooling at Kingston Community School, Chanel began studying her law degree immediately, which has led her on a journey of experiences and numerous overseas adventures. While interning, the law student has been working on two projects - "the Project to Promote Women's Political Participation in Cambodia" and the "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Project".
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Banong Families Received Communal Land Titles
Seventy-Two ethnic minority Banong families received communal titles to a combined 1,008 hectares of ancestral land in Mondolkiri province yesterday morning in a ceremony attended by Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim.
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Election Group Highlights Fragile State of Democracy
Democracy reform deteriorated in Cambodia last year and the ruling CPP continued to dominate the legislative, judicial, law enforcement, media and public administration sectors, the committee for Free and Fair Election in Cambodia (Comfrel) says in its annual report release yesterday.
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Hun Sen Says Wage Change Are Not Up to Government
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the government not role in setting the minimum wage, as Cambodia is a market-driven economy, and shot down unnamed people who have been calling for the government to significantly raise the country’s floor wage of $61.
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Union threatens strike if wage talk fails
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Chea Mony, Free Trade Union of Workers of Cambodia, threatens to strike if wage talks this afternoon fails to increase worker's salaries. In a statement issued Monday, he urged union representatives to stand firm when talking with factory employers and not to reduce the amount salaries demanded.
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French Judge Arrives to Probe Death of Frenchman’s Family
A team of 10 investigators from France arrived in Cambodia yesterday evening to probe the death of a Frenchman and his four children, whose decomposed bodies were recovered from a pond near their home last year, an embassy official said.
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Hun Sen a 'coward' says Cambodia opposition chief
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday branded strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen a "coward" for barring him from running in a key general election later this year. Rainsy, Hun Sen's main rival, lives in self-imposed exile in France to avoid prison for a string of convictions that critics contend are politically motivated.
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CNRP Rallies Garment Workers With Promises of Change
Speaking to hundreds of garment workers yesterday in Phnom Penh, Kem Sokha, deputy president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), appeal to those in attendance to vote for the newly formed opposition party , promising higher wages , social security and free access to schools and heath care.
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Two Men Arrested for Distributing Pornography
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged two men with distributing pornography, Municipal Court Judge Ly Lipmeng said. Phok Sambor, 22, and Kong Chanvuthy, 24, were arrested Friday by the Phnom Penh’s anti trafficking police in Meanchey district’s Stung Meanchey commune, for allegedly installing pornographic video onto mobile phone devices.
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Government Fires Back at Sonando Supporters
The government has accused the opposition and non government group of trampling on the country’s Constitution by criticizing independence radio station owner Mam Sonando’s conviction for stoking an alleged insurrection and calling for his release.
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CAMBODIAN JOURNALIST’S IMMEDIATE EXONERATION AND RELEASE DEMANDED
Reporters Without Borders and the Cambodian Center for Independent Media demand the immediate and unconditional release of Mam Sonando, owner of Beehive radio, whose brief trial growing out of charges of fomenting insurrection ended on 6 March. The verdict in the case, an appeal of a lower court conviction, will be announced on 14 March. “The principal accusers did not appear at the trial,” Reporters Without Borders said. “No new evidence was presented. The continued detention of Mam Sonando is completely unjustified.”
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Ieng Sary Remain in Hospital for diarrhea
War crime defendant Ieng Sary remained under medical attention at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital yesterday following his admission on March 4 for diarrhea and vomiting, a spokesman for the Khmer Rouge tribunal said.
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Koh Kong Families Ask Hun Sen for Help in Dispute
More than 40 families from Koh Kong province gathers on Friday outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh home to ask him to intervene in their land dispute with the provincial forestry administration, village representative said yesterday.
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