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Kampong Speu villagers seek solution to land row
A group of families have demanded Kampong Speu provincial authorities expedite the distribution of 54ha of land in Daun Ath village in the province’s Samrong district’s Skuh commune after they claimed rich and powerful individuals conspired with commune authorities to change ownership by altering the land title.
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Appeal Court hears KNLF spokesman’s case
The Phnom Penh Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of the former spokesman and representative of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF) who was sentenced to seven years in prison on November 11, 2020, accused of conspiring with the former CNRP President Sam Rainsy to stage a military coup.
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GoldFX Protesters File Petition Seeking PM’s Help at His Takhmao House
Investors in GoldFX, a financial firm run by ruling party scions that says it was cheated out of $20 million by ex-board members, have sought the intervention of Prime Minister Hun Sen, saying they cannot accept the company’s offer of 30 percent compensation for their lost investments.
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Gov’t says NGO campaign illegal
The campaign by a group of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) demanding the release of environmental and human rights activists is illegal and more of a political agenda than a defense of freedoms, says the Ministry of Justice.
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TOP NEWS: Cambodia Reports 588 New Cases of COVID19; 742 Recovered; 17 Died
Cambodia reported 588 new cases of COVID19, 17 patients died, while 742 patients recovered on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health's press release dated 15 August 2021.
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The climate crisis is not the third wave. It is the permanent flood
The Covid-19 pandemic is a crisis of a nature that we have not faced in our lifetimes. The climate crisis, while operating on a longer timescale, is a catastrophe for which there is no historical precedent. We are the first species with the sentience to foresee the change we are causing while it is happening, and the prowess to prevent it.
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Boeng Tompun Houses Demolished, Reporters Obstructed
District authorities deleted photos on reporters’ cameras and made them leave a public area as authorities demolished residents’ homes, allegedly without compensation, near the Boeng Tompun lake development.
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PP cracks down on Boeng Trabek reservoir encroachment
The area of Boeng Trabek reservoir continues to be encroached upon by some people in violation of the government’s Sub-Decree No 221 dated December 31, 2020, despite repeated warnings and announcements from the authorities.
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Fishing Community Accuses Local Officials of Selling Off State Wetlands
Chhay Loeu, head of the Kambor fishing community in Preah Netr Preah district’s Phnom Liep commune, alleged the commune chief and other officials had sold 120 hectares of forests to private interests, affecting local fishing families.
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GoldFX investors call for Hun Sen to intervene in financial scandal
On Sunday, more than a hundred people tried to gather in front of the prime minister’s house in Phnom Penh, but were banned by authorities. On Monday, they went to protest in front of another one of Hun Sen’s houses in Kandal province’s capital of Takhmao, but were also turned away.
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Blind Students Face Additional Difficulties Studying Online
For Cambodia’s blind students, school closures and the pandemic have added new difficulties to their studies. Video chats have left them with only portions of lessons, Khmer-language screen reading technology has been lacking, and one of the country’s only braille publishing houses has been temporarily shut due to Covid-19.
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After Phnom Penh Lion’s Escape, Owner Says He’s Building a Fence
A lion that was granted special permission to live in the middle of Phnom Penh escaped for a short time this morning, after which his owner told reporters that he was building a higher fence to prevent future escapes.
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More than 300 people detained for gathering
More than 300 people were arrested for gathering in defiance of the Royal Government prohibitions against groups of more that 15 people congregating at one time.
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PP cracks down on Boeng Trabek reservoir encroachment
The area of Boeng Trabek reservoir continues to be encroached upon by some people in violation of the government’s Sub-Decree No 221 dated December 31, 2020, despite repeated warnings and announcements from the authorities.
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Potty in pink: Rural school’s colourful washroom helping girls stay healthy
In a public high school in Kampong Cham province, a newly built bright pink washroom means more than just a place for female students to relieve themselves.
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Cambodian migrant workers start coming home as border reopens
Migrant workers have started returning to Cambodia as Thai-Cambodian border checkpoints reopened Thursday and Friday, following a two-week shutdown to slow the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.
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Women migrant workers’ face discrimination, says UN
Pauline Tamesis, the United Nations (UN) resident coordinator in Cambodia, said that women migrant workers are facing discrimination when they try to access migration services through formal and informal channels.
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Svay Rieng provincial authorities place canal land dispute protestors in COVID-19 quarantine
Sixty families connected to protests of a Svay Rieng canal restoration project have been placed in 14-day quarantine after two villagers tested positive for COVID-19, leading some locals to allege officials are using health measures to force a resolution of the land dispute.
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Ethics committee refutes statement by Reporters Without Borders
Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) secretary-general Puy Kea, who is also the speaker of the Information Ministry’s Monitoring Committee for Journalism Ethics told Khmer Times yesterday that the creation of the committee is not to put pressure on print or social media, as Reporters Without Borders claimed on Wednesday.
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Opinion: Pandemic Offers Chance to Consider Higher Taxes, not Donations, From Rich
Cambodia faces a significant challenge to find more sources of government revenue as it fights Covid-19. As a consequence of the pandemic, the government has taken a hit in revenues in several economic sectors: notably hotels, restaurants, tourism and transport.
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