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Police Turn Away Summoned NagaWorld Workers as Case Moves to Court
NagaWorld workers have had their strike brought to an abrupt halt after local officials demanded they get tested for Covid-19 and self-isolate for seven days, after one worker tested positive for the virus. Even after finishing their mandated quarantine, workers have not said when or how they will resume their protest, which, according to City Hall, can now only take place at the new Freedom Park in the city’s outskirts.
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Grassroots Party Says Svay Rieng Official Blocking Their Activities
The Grassroots Democratic Party in Svay Rieng province has declared a commune chief intends to obstruct the party’s campaign activities in his jurisdiction.
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Lawyers allege tampering on Kem Sokha videos
Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights who was present to observe the hearing, said the two sides continually interrupted one another with accusations of not following procedure or causing deliberate delays. Tensions between the government and defence lawyers persisted until the judge was forced to intervene and remind them to stop exchanging barbs and attacking each other, she said.
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Hun Sen orders authorities not to stifle political parties before upcoming elections
Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the authorities not to threaten or disturb the activities of political parties before and during the election campaign, in order to safeguard the country’s democratic space.
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Secret weapon: CP recruits ex-commune chiefs to become strongest opposition
According to the National Election Committee (NEC), political parties have three days to register their candidates, from March 4 to 6, and it has set seven days to review and decide on the applications with a deadline of April 24.
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Cambodia's Internet gateway raises fears of China-style surveillance
With such a broad mandate, the gateway will facilitate "mass surveillance", said Sopheap Chak, executive director of CCHR, a non-profit.
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Kem Sokha Lawyers Show Nine Videos to Argue Nonviolence
Tensions between prosecution and defense consumed most of Wednesday’s trial hearing of opposition leader Kem Sokha’s treason case, as each side accused the other of trying to delay the trial process.
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Navy Battles Local Tycoon Over Land Loss at Ream
The Cambodian Navy wants 120 hectares of land near the Ream naval base back from a prominent business tycoon, who claims that he legally purchased the land from a military official.
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Sopheap’s Safeguarding for Garment Workers: A Union Leader’s Story
Im Sopheap, 33, was born to a family of farmers in Kampong Cham Province, but by 2005, the family of seven found that farming alone could no longer sustain them. It was then that Sopheap decided to move to Phnom Penh in search of job opportunities.
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CPP urges NEC to move the new election rules forward
Amid the increasing demand from six political parties for the National Election Committee to revoke the new changes in election rules of not allowing party agents at polling stations to take out copies of the election report, or “Form 1102”, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) yesterday urged NEC to move the change forward.
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Environmental Authorities Deny Suspicions After Death in Custody
A logger who died in custody had no bruises as alleged and may have had mental health issues, a Pursat environmental official said of a 22-year-old man arrested for cutting trees in a protected area.
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Government Confirms Controversial National Internet Gateway Plan Delayed
The government on Feb. 15 confirmed that it would be temporarily delaying the rollout of the controversial National Internet Gateway, which would route all Cambodia’s internet traffic through a centralized government system, prompting fears of restricting online freedoms.
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Controversial National Internet Gateway postponed as project criticisms grow
Chak Sopheap, the executive director at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the government’s reassurances it would not use the law for greater rights restrictions were unconvincing. Sopheap said the state had offered nothing to assuage concerns pertaining to the establishment of the gateway, while recent years have seen growing state intolerance of criticism and dissent.
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Malady and Magic: The Murders of Cambodia’s ‘Black Magic’ Practitioners
As the sun sets above the isolated village of Sre Ken, set in the rugged Oral district of Kampong Speu, the mountains that rise above on all sides fade to a soft purple before disappearing in the night.
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Briefs: Court Delays Mass Trial, NEC Relents on Vote Document
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court delayed a mass-trial hearing against CNRP members and supporters because a defense lawyer had come in contact with a Covid-19 case at PJ Prison.
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City Orders NagaWorld Protests Move to Freedom Park, Workers Resist
NagaWorld protesters are not permitted to rally in public spaces, City Hall said on Tuesday, urging them to gather at a park in the city’s outskirts when workers clear Covid-19 testing and quarantine requirements.
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Tycoon Doung Ngeap Arrested after Complaining of Corrupt Courts
Three-star Police General and Tycoon Duong Ngeap was arrested on the morning of Feb. 14 on charges of fraud, just days after he had taken to Facebook in a livestream to complain of the corruption in Cambodian courts. Bail has been set at $5 million.
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Cambodia commits to halve deforestation by 2030
Cambodia is all set to reduce deforestation by half by the year 2030 and achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions in its forestry sector by 2040.
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Court sends tycoon Duong Ngeap to pre-trial detention on fraud charge after claim of judicial corruption
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday decided to place tycoon Duong Ngeap, a three-star general with the Ministry of Interior, in pre-trial detention as he faces a charge of fraud.
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Unions Looking for Place Within SEZ Boundaries
Since just before the pandemic started, Chhoum Phen has changed his job more than five times within Hi-Tech Apparel, the garment factory he has worked at for more than five years.
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